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Ryan Morey · March 6th, 2009, 10:35 AM

Hi Everyone,

I have a little issue here.I have a 30 sec clip I'd like to apply smoothcam to.It a ceremony where I was stuck in my stedicam rig and the footage isn't so steady.I edited down the clip in fcp 6 and applied the smoothcam filter.The estimated time says 15hrs to analize.Holy moly.....is that right? Should I change anything as far as the clip goes? I'm editing hdv 1080 60i .I'm totaly new at this so please bare with me if this is a stupid question:)

Thanks!
Ryan

Dino Leone · March 6th, 2009, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Ryan Morey

Hi Everyone,

I have a little issue here.I have a 30 sec clip I'd like to apply smoothcam to.It a ceremony where I was stuck in my stedicam rig and the footage isn't so steady.I edited down the clip in fcp 6 and applied the smoothcam filter.The estimated time says 15hrs to analize.Holy moly.....is that right? Should I change anything as far as the clip goes? I'm editing hdv 1080 60i .I'm totaly new at this so please bare with me if this is a stupid question:)

Thanks!
Ryan

smooth cam will analyze the entire clip, even if you set a small portion using IN and OUT markers. If you want to accelerate the process you might have to render out the truncated clip first and then bring it back into FCP. Apart from that, yes, smoothcam takes a lot, lot, processing power.

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Reuben Miller · March 6th, 2009, 02:14 PM

Dino is spot on.

Smoothcam will analyze the entire clip. I would simply make a new clip of the portion and run Smoothcam on that clip.

Also... since it analyzes in the background, you should be able to keep working.

Vito DeFilippo · March 6th, 2009, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Dino Leone

smooth cam will analyze the entire clip, even if you set a small portion using IN and OUT markers.

I recently started learning FCP, and the first time I tried Smoothcam, I immediately came against this issue. I assumed I wasn't using the filter correctly, because I thought there was no way the default action would be to analyse the entire clip. I figured that was way too dumb.

Apparently not...

Ryan Morey · March 6th, 2009, 08:11 PM

ok.....pheew.I got it.I just cut the clip down to the 31 sec clip I needed.Now it's saying 8 minutes.Hopefully it comes out well.

Thanks for all of your help guys.Now I just need to learn how to export for the web:)

Ryan

Glenn Fisher · March 6th, 2009, 10:40 PM

Does anyone know if it is possible to apply the smoothcam filter to a subclip in order to save time and avoid exporting?

Jiri Fiala · March 7th, 2009, 03:39 AM

No, it really analyzes the entire media file. Kind of stupid, IMHO.

March 6th, 2009, 10:35 AM	#1
Ryan Morey Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Wildwood Crest, NJ Posts: 140	smoothcam 15hrs??? Hi Everyone, I have a little issue here.I have a 30 sec clip I'd like to apply smoothcam to.It a ceremony where I was stuck in my stedicam rig and the footage isn't so steady.I edited down the clip in fcp 6 and applied the smoothcam filter.The estimated time says 15hrs to analize.Holy moly.....is that right? Should I change anything as far as the clip goes? I'm editing hdv 1080 60i .I'm totaly new at this so please bare with me if this is a stupid question:) Thanks! Ryan __________________ www.rhmphotography.com What you talkin bout Willis?

March 6th, 2009, 08:11 PM	#5
Ryan Morey Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Wildwood Crest, NJ Posts: 140	ok.....pheew.I got it.I just cut the clip down to the 31 sec clip I needed.Now it's saying 8 minutes.Hopefully it comes out well. Thanks for all of your help guys.Now I just need to learn how to export for the web:) Ryan __________________ www.rhmphotography.com What you talkin bout Willis?

March 6th, 2009, 02:14 PM	#3
Reuben Miller Regular Crew Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Playa del Rey, CA Posts: 61	Dino is spot on. Smoothcam will analyze the entire clip. I would simply make a new clip of the portion and run Smoothcam on that clip. Also... since it analyzes in the background, you should be able to keep working.

March 6th, 2009, 10:40 PM	#6
Glenn Fisher Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Bridgewater, NJ Posts: 65	Does anyone know if it is possible to apply the smoothcam filter to a subclip in order to save time and avoid exporting?

March 7th, 2009, 03:39 AM	#7
Jiri Fiala Major Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Brno Czech Republic Posts: 453	No, it really analyzes the entire media file. Kind of stupid, IMHO.