[Jack King]

wait up, sorry again!

it seems that i have gotten the whole of the image underneath to track the points i’ve analyzed on the upper track – but i can’t get the filter to follow these points.

– by this i mean the anchor cursor in the middle that can move the image about seems to have inherited the analyzed motion rather than the filter. Eh!!!??? can you help????

[Jack King]

HI stephen

been away for some time and just come back to finish this project!

took your advise, and now i am getting a source box – but i don’t get how to apply to filter to the analyzed motion.

i’ve got the clip twice on the timeline:
– clip (copy)
– bulge (filter)
– analyze motion

then

– clip
– bulge (filter)
– match move

obviously now i’ve got two images over the top of each other so i can’t see my filter unless i move the one from the top one – but i don’t get how to match this up.

i’m really f***kin confused – i’m watching tutorials and reading stuff but no-body seems to be doing the same way, and nothing is working! please help – what do i do next???

thanks man,

jack 🙂

[Jack King]

hi there,

it really shouldn’t make a difference. Fcp 7 just doesn’t export smoothcam – i don’t really know if the multi format thing is a problem but if your timeline is fine with it then i wouldn’t worry about it!

Basically, all you need to do is right click on the clip you want to apply smoothcam to scroll down to ‘send to motion’ – or whatever it says. It should open up in motion. When it does that find smoothcam in motion, (i can’t remember where it is but it’s there – i’m not on my imac writing this so can’t check) – and just apply it. Again, i can’t give you specific details but it’s really not difficult to figure out – i never used motion before doing this and haven’t used it since.

Once you’ve done that you just need to export as a self contained clip back to your desktop. It will automatically make the changes in fcp but i found this didn’t work still when i exported. So you’ll need to re-import the clips and just slip them back into your timeline over the top of the old clip.

when you export you won’t get the shake back. FCP won’t know there is a smoothcam filter applied to it.

let me know if this makes sense to you!

[Jack King]

Hi mark,

do you have motion? how unfamiliar are you? i’m assuming you have applied the smoothcam filter in fcp 7 and now just want to export it but can’t without getting the shake back?

[Jack King]

Matt even!!! Sorry 🙂

Thanks again mate!

[Jack King]

Nice one mark, good to know – will do!

Jack 🙂

[Jack King]

Matt you are an absolute star,

it worked like a dream.

Thank you so much.

I’ll get in touch if any more problems, but i should be okay from here. Your not based in yorkshire by any chance are you?!

Jack 🙂

[Jack King]

matt thats fantastic.

thankyou so much,

i await your post!

[Jack King]

letterboxed is probably better!

can you instruct me how to get what I want?

[Jack King]

HI matt,

thanks for that. I’m really sorry but i don’t know what you mean by ‘flagging’ it – could you explain?

yeah i’m in the uk, but it’s a dutch tv station.