Hi, thanks for your reply. I will upload the same movie I did in imovie, using the tab above this e-mail box. In imovie there is a “button” called stabilize. badda-bing badda-boom hit the button and it is stable. My dirty little secret is that I use imovie, but I finally got fcp and am ready to step up. As far as I know the equivalent to this feature is using the “stedicam filter”. I used this, and at least in the timeline of fcp it looks terrible. It seems like if imovie can do something so easily that fcp would also. I was reluctant to even post this as it is my first project and I don’t want to annoy anyone with my lack of experience but boats is what I do and I have always had great luck with using the stabilize feature in imovie. I put a project together and was bummed to see the results. I did not export it yet. It should look pretty much like it’s going to look in the timeline right? thanks much, Jason