[Laurie York]

I’ve found that when I use MPEG Streamclip to convert my video FCP Smoothcam analyzes and processes very quickly. Also, in Streamclip I’m setting my In and Out points so that the clip that goes on my external hard-drive is only the section of the clip I want. This saves a huge amount of external hard-drive space, plus FCP won’t have to render the entire clip – just the section you’ve converted in MPEG Streamclip.

And thanks Tom for the Motion install suggestion. I never would have thought of that for making the Smoothcam effect available. You saved me a lot of time. 🙂