Smoothcam works

[Russell Lasson]

[santellavision] “P.S. It does take freakin’ forever – about 15 minutes for a 5 sec shot on an Intel Quad 2.66 7GB RAM) “

It will take longer for some clips because it will analyze the entire original footage, not just the in and out points. If you need to speed it up, export the clip as a self contained file then bring it back in and apply Smoothcam.

I used it just the other day with wonderful results.

-Russ

[Walter Biscardi]

[santellavision] “It softened it ever so slightly, but I can absolutely live with that over the shaky shot. Try it!”

It softened quite a bit in our experience as we had text in the shot and it was easy to see how much the shot was softened. Threw some sharpening filters on there and it brought it back a bit, but was still quite soft. It was DV footage so I’m sure uncompressed SD would look better.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.

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[Russell Lasson] “It will take longer for some clips because it will analyze the entire original footage, not just the in and out points.”

Ahhh, I thought that’s what was happening, sorry I should have said, I was trying to use the re-timing behaviour in Motion, I added the behaviour then timing was set to opitcal flow, it took an age, only then did I realise it was analyzing the whole clip, so a round trip via quickitme export should cure it?

[Russell Lasson]

Yup.

-Russ

[Ernie Santella]

Russell, thanks for the info. The cow is the best!

Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
http://www.santellaproductions.com