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Applying Smoothcam to Multiclips
I’m editing a 2 hour concert, made up of 9 angles. The odd shot here and there needs a bit of smoothing out, so I’d like to apply Smoothcam to a few short sections of the clips without applying it to the whole 2 hours of footage.
How would I approach this?
Ta,
Steve.
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Mark IN and OUT on that clip in the timeline. Export it as self contained Quicktime movie, using sequence settings. Reimport that clip…then apply smoothcam.
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Aha! Of course… Thank you.
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Steve, while what Shane says is valid, I might offer a different way. If you export your movies as a self contained, you will blow away any chance to recapture as all orig tc and log info is gone.
What I would suggest is to live with it in the edit. Then once you have picture lock, collapse your multi-clip edit, media manage the timeline to shake loose any extraneously large captures, then recapture only the new media you need (perhaps at a better codec/resoluton as well). Then put SmoothCam on the clips that need smoothing in the online.
It might not make sense in your situation, but maybe it will.
THought I might throw it out there for you.
Jeremy
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Thank you both for your invaluable help. I think you may be right Jeremy, if I lose the TC I’ll be in all sorts of trouble, and as it happens this is the type of production where my clients will trust me to smooth out the shakey shots after I’ve reconformed the programme.
Actually that’s my next big step in the wide world of FCP – recapturing at uncompressed quality from the original DigiBeta rushes. I originally had some 30 hours of footage over 20 tapes, and each tape was captured as one big 90 minute clip at PAL DV 625 quality – I’m assuming that recapturing just the footage I’ve used in the timeline, with handles, will be a fairly straightforward exercise…?
As you can see, I’ve jumped in at the deep end here – I have no previous experience of FCP and I’m editing a 10 camera concert shoot for broadcast as my first job! It’s an exciting ride, and the more I use FCP the more I’m starting to like it.
Thanks again for your help,
Steve.
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However you can either set the TC in your sequence to match your clip TC so when you export it will be on there or after you export it you can still modify your TC under modify.
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Hey, Devin. That’s a nice one (modifying the tc after export). Don’t forget to set the reel number too. Now that you have me thinking about it, you could actually match frame to the original clip and export from the viewer leaving tc in tact, adding handles (just in case) and perhaps keeping reel number in tact, but I’d have to check on that.
Nice one, Devin.
Jeremy
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[Steve Price] “‘m assuming that recapturing just the footage I’ve used in the timeline, with handles, will be a fairly straightforward exercise…? “
Straightforward is a very broad term 🙂
You will have to get used to the media manager and honestly, I don’t work with Multicam at all and I have heard it has it’s short comings but I would imagine after you collapse it, it should behave like any other timeline. i am sure someone on this list will show you the way with multicam. I have had excellent luck with recapturing footage after the timeline being media managed, but sometimes it can be perilous. HIt this list up when you are ready. In the meantime, read some basics here:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_onlining_jordan.html
The references to the version of FCP is old in this article, but the gist is there.
Jeremy
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Jeremy,
Yes, if you use match frame to load the source clip into the Viewer and export using “QT Movie” (not “QT conversion”) the clips metadata (TC, reel #, etc.,) will remain intact. But I would agree though to lock the edit first then apply SmoothCam so one doesn’t waste time applying effects to something that won’t make the final cut.-A
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[Andrew Kimery] “then apply SmoothCam so one doesn’t waste time applying effects to something that won’t make the final cut. “
Totally. I would work that way, you would work that way, but maybe Steve’s client might not let that happen that way.
…and I know how that goes, and I bet you probably know how that goes too. Perhaps you don’t and if you don’t, can I have your clients? And if not, can you have your clients call some of my clients and show them the way?
Clients aside, I think we have as a group figured out plenty of options.
Alas as a general comment, SmoothCam is pretty damn sweet.
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We have to do this all the time with Color Corrected and Frame synced Beta footage with IMX. Usually we set the Sequence Timecode with the source and export it that way. Sometimes we forget and have to Modify it ourselves.
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