How to stabilize part of a LONG clip

[David Roth weiss]

Either purchase Lock and Load, a third part app, or export the portion you want to stabilize and reimport back to the timeline, then apply Smoothcam.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
http://www.drwfilms.com

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[Ariel Brener]

Thank you for replying sir.

Can you recommend what is the best way to export HD footage without reducing the quality?

Thanks a bunch!

I will check this Lock and Load…. thanks again!

[Steve Eisen]

export self contained movie.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[David Roth weiss]

As Steve says… The proceedure is to mark an in and out, the Export>>QuickTime Movie using current settings, with the self contained box checked. That should always be used to create whatever export you might want that precisely matches all or part of your timeline. It’s not even down a generation…

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
http://www.drwfilms.com

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[Ariel Brener]

Thank you so much Steve & David!

I really don’t understand why Apple designed this important & common feature so awkwardly…

[David Roth weiss]

[Ariel Brener] “I really don’t understand why Apple designed this important & common feature so awkwardly…”

FCP is today a rather ancient (in computer terms) bunch of cobbled together code, to which Apple’s software engineers have added feature upon feature, which have enabled us to do just about anything possible in post, though some things do of course require workarounds. Perhaps someday soon, when those same engineers get around to a modern rewrite, much of we now do with workarounds will be flawlessly and more precisely implemented. Until that time however, ours is not to question why, ours is but to do or die…

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
http://www.drwfilms.com

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[Ariel Brener]

I see,
Well I hope its in their “TO DO LIST”….

Because AVID 5 is a major jump for digidesign
I hope Apple will release a GAME CHANGER of her own in the near future….