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Smoothcam Glitch
Hi,
I’ve recently imported a short clip into my timeline where I applied the Smoothcam filter. Afterwards I noticed a window pop-up stating that Smoothcam was analyzing background for 20 different clips. I then noticed that many clips in my timeline looked zoomed in, and when I double clicked on those clips many had the Smoothcam filter on them. Did I do something wrong, as I applied Smoothcam only on one clip in the timeline, but is it possible that Smoothcam got applied to other clips within the same folder as the short clip? Is there a way to only remove the Smoothcam effect from my whole timeline?
Any help much appreciated!
Alexander -
2 Replies
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The Smoothcam analysis is made not to a single clip but to its associated media. If you’ve applied smooth cam to a clip, the whole media has to be analyzed but the filter should only be applied to that one clip. That’s assuming you applied the filter to a clip in the timeline and not to a browser clip.
All the best,
Tom
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What I like to do is open up my clip in the viewer find the section I like, set the in and out points(with a some handles) then export that clip to prores HQ, import the new prores clip and apply the smoothcam filter to that.
That way I’m not applying the effect to the entire clip(which is a major problem if you capture your tapes as 1 whole clip), and smoothcam works a lot faster with prores than it does with HDV or XDcam HD, which is what I’m usually editing.
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