Stabilizing some footage

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Sean,
You are right ,the SmoothCam works great but you need to follow some steps to avoid long “analyzing” times.
You need to put in a sequence the shoots that you want to stabilize. Clean all the areas with too much camera shake.
Use the Media Manager to copy the clips of the sequence.
Open the sequence in the new project and apply the SmoothCam.
This way only the selected footage is analyzed and processed. If you apply directly to the original sequence, all the master clips would be anaalyzed.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[John Pale]

The analysis is performed on the entire media file…so even if you are stablizing a 5 second clip from a 1 hour piece of media, it analyzes the whole 1 hour. The workaround suggested in the FCP manual is to export a self contained movie containing only the clip you want to stabilize. Reimport that and run the analysis. It will be much faster. You might also want to make a self contained movie of the stabilized shot, as any alteration of it will cause the analysis to have be done over.

[Rafael Amador]

[John Pale] “The workaround suggested in the FCP manual is to export a self contained movie containing only the clip you want to stabilize.”
Hi John,
This way SmoothCam has to go through the cuts and sometimes gets a bit messy.
The Media Manager way lets apply the filter just to the media you selected and adjust the filter for each clip.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[John Pale]

[Rafael Amador] “Hi John,
This way SmoothCam has to go through the cuts and sometimes gets a bit messy.
The Media Manager way lets apply the filter just to the media you selected and adjust the filter for each clip.
Rafael
“

Thanks Rafael, I’ll remember that.