Final Cut Pro 6 Tutorial: Smooth Cam

[giofreerun]

what the '';']!!? It doesn't work with me??? I can not put it into video filters..???

Why doesn't it work with me??

[jalmoree]

As a baby' but

[HyperSnowOttawa]

Is smooth cam a plug in? Please reply

[arecill]

@HyperSnowOttawa no its a video filter

[jorgeaspron]

smooth as a baby's butt, superb

[fisheyeproductionss]

"and now when i play it, its smooth as a bays butt"

[ShaulHaShablul]

why it's not working for me?

[FarsianVistas]

Thanks! It was helpful!

[rpcguy]

did anyone else notice how ther was only 240p 360p and 720p but no 480p

[michaelpoczynek]

Thank you this was very helpful. But I have to export the clip, then import it as a .mov for it to work with FCP7.

[cobywatkins]

man you're always helpful with all of your vids. thanks a lot

[Bratwurstpictures]

but it sucks cus it crops my video so badly, i want the full frame shot to be smoothed out

[dorazberry]

Where do you get your videos from?

[KkwhatShow]

baby's butt LOL!!!!

[alexander24l7]

thanks :) !

[nublackmusic]

Thank you for this video it was a big help. Peace!

[JoeCnNd]

Will it mess with your audio?

[BrokN9]

@JoeCnNd why should it? it doesnt slow it down or anything

[JoeCnNd]

@BrokN9 I thought it takes bad frames away to smooth out the shots. I've never used it but was just wondering. I see it actually takes the image and makes it a little smaller so you can correct the shake.

[BrokN9]

@JoeCnNd no it just crops it

[hakob82]

Hi, i watch many of your tutorials , they are great!

If it is not secret , how fast is your computer?

I just bought quad core i7, 2.93 ghz, with 2x4GB Ram, and it still gives me 15 hours for smoothcam to analyze 1 minute video (((, is it because the video is MOV, or what??? Thanks

[Kariwaves]

@hakob82 It takes so long most likely because you pulled one minute out of a much larger clip in your queue/bin. It automatically smooths out the ENTIRE clip, even if only a small portion is on your timeline...

I can understand why some times it may be nice, but I wish there was an option to choose if you want it to automatically do the WHOLE video or not... (if there is, someone please tell me!)

[d1eynon]

Great tutorial! But, I'm getting the message "Unanalyzed" and don't know how to get SmoothCam to start! There's nothing I found in FCP help, I've tried rendering, etc. Thanks. I'd appreciate it if you can include this situation, "Unanalyzed".

[coked007]

are you on the imac

[MaidensBiology]

Smooth as a babys butt.

[Youtschien]

@MaidensBiology LOLz

[redimi2s]

thank!s! a lot! but i need to get another computer cuz mine says waiting time 5hours jesus!! what is the capacity of ur computer ? can u tell me the specs?

[qqqTOXICqqq]

My Smoothcam is not working in Final Cut Pro 7. It is making my video bounce horribly like shaking when it's applied Anyone know why?

[Almanzajj]

great! thanks

[qqqTOXICqqq]

damn, smooth cam is not in Final Cut Express!!

[007Fortis]

help! it's not even analyzing?

[burtonclemons]

Erick,

I want to thank you for all of the info and how clean you always make your instructional videos. I hope to continue learning from your teaching. I'm a teacher and I rate you among the best in your field. Thanks again. Burt in Sacramento

[therealslush]

"smooth as a baby's butt" HE SAID THAT THREE TIMES!!! lol

[Stanislav1994hackera]

thank you so much! keep up the good work man!

[resoul12]

Awesome tutorial.I have one question though, let me see if I can describe this correctly:

I have a long clip that involves a camera zoom in the last 10-20 seconds to focus on the subject.The focus is a static shot of the subject, but the clip shakes.If I cut the clip around the static shot (so that I have two clips now), how can I smooth the last 10 seconds without the clip jumping in zoom to compensate for the SmoothCam corrections? Or do I need to smoothcam the entire clip without cutting it?

[resoul12]

Awesome tutorial.I have one question though, let me see if I can describe this correctly:

I have a long clip that involves a camera zoom in the last 10-20 seconds to focus on the subject.The focus is a static shot of the subject, but the clip shakes.If I cut the clip around the static shot (so that I have two clips now), how can I smooth the last 10 seconds without the clip jumping in zoom to compensate for the SmoothCam corrections? Or do I need to smoothcam the entire clip without cutting it?

[5tudio3rickson]

I love the wine bottle opening at 1:20 :)

[beesknees14]

sooo many iconss on his desktop

[stratokwaster]

"smoothcam is not software, it's magic"

LOL I LOVE THAT QUOTE FROM YOU.

[madmanmadeloso]

thanks so much for this its saved me so much time so i don't have to reshoot anything

[missdreamgurl]

why does it get blury after using the effect?

[Bionicpix]

@missdreamgurl Probbaly cuz it's cropping in (zooming in) to the picture, so you lose a little resolution. Try a light sharpen filter.

[missdreamgurl]

is there any filter to make a persons face smooth? please help... thanks

[TheSandG]

It's strange, some clips won't allow me to put the smooth cam filter in them, anyone know why?

[dollilamaa]

i analyzed my clip, and the clip looks like it jerks even more after using the smoothcam filter. i also do see any black edges, so i didnt turn of the auto scale. I have an sd clip, can anyone help?

[Bionicpix]

@dollilamaa There needs to be a point of reference in the frame that does not move, like a corner in a wall or something. If everything is moving like in a pan shot, it can't lock on to anything.

[dollilamaa]

@Bionicpix thanks

[raspordie]

Aussie?;)

[kamikazeephi]

on mine it says Actual Scale Disabled: Too much Motion...how do i fix this? thnx!

[ishrihernandez]

i've noticed that smoothcam takes quite a bit to analize the clip...can you explain how we can make the piece of the full clip an indipendent clip so it can analize it faster? thx

[TERRANCIO]

@ishrihernandez yeah, even though he said it's a fasssst computer but for that little clip it took like 20 seconds, lol on mine it's like 3 sec, is that a MacBook?

[ishrihernandez]

i use a 2.8ghz macbook pro with 4 gb of ram, i normaly stop running all other programs before i start editing to help FCP have more available GPU space...

[joshlwilson]

you have to find the content disks and reinstall fcp 5

that should work

[joshlwilson]

how can I get smooth cam? I go the the effects>video and i only have about 6-7 effects. where would I go to get this?

thanks great vid BTW

[Bejza]

This is super, if you shoot aerial you don't need gyro stabilisator, I am just interested if i shot on Red One and my final product is about to be HD, in what res. should I shot so I use smooth cam? 4K for HD or 2K for HD?

[frillington]

I tried sooth cam on a small 15 sec clip on my new macbook pro. It said that the clip would take 9 hours to analyze. What am I doing wrong?

[Sbe22]

It's simple.

If you have a big clip with a duration of 1 hour,

you choose only 2 second and this small clip on the timeline. When you apply SmoothCam, it will render all the 1 hour !!

So, export your 2 second in one Quicktime clip, before apply this filter.

[frillington]

Thank you so much for the reply Sbe22 - that is a big help.

[stunmanjr]

@Sbe22 so right, i like how he says its quick because he has a fast computer, not because it is most likely s 2 second clip.

[sayrith]

@Sbe22 which is stupid

[scottybot2003]

how did a redneck like you get a decent pc like that? did the aliens give it to after they probed u in a corn feild bubba?

[MrJayr626]

You're a moron.

[WhiteBreadBoi]

what typy of computer do you have? I realize that you need a lot of ram for final cut pro and I have to work off of my Macbook. Is it just a mac pro?

[nickgrguric]

uhm when i drag the smooth cam effect over top of my footage to apply it

it doesnt apply do you know why

[JayBear1987]

that was fuckin magic

[kypr07]

but you loose resolution on some clips

[bigairred]

True, you're going to loose res if you zoom in on any clip that's the same res as the sequence - this is part of what SmoothCam's doing.

I've found that as long as you don't go over about 110% you can normally get away with it.

I also try and shoot at a higher res than the final output if possible - shoot HD/HDV for SD delivery, SD for a 512x288 web vid and so on. That way you can zoom in without these problems, allowing all sorts of pans/re-framing etc whilst maintaining a good image.

[Mindcrime13]

ITS MAGIC!!!!!!

hahaha, great filter indeeds

[occupiedbytim]

is the smoothcam filter available in final cut HD express?

[extremelyoriginal]

hahaha 6:17

[1qw3er5ty7ui9op]

Are you using Snapz Pro X?

[gumberly]

no screen flow. i like snapz better tho. that's what i use!

[chillboa]

how did you get so much filters?

[sendbyiphone]

I use imac 24 2.8G,My Smooth cam it take long time to render,like my clip is only 10~20 sec ,id take 10 hours,is doing

wrong ?

[GeurillaVideo]

krunk says wrong, no should do.

[rcbrown23]

You need to export the small clip (10-20secs), then re-import just the small clip, and add smoothcam. Smoothcam analyzes the ENTIRE clip from the browser, not just the small portion you have in your timeline. That will solve your problem.

[masteez6969]

that helped me out so much thank you!

[HermanosAguas]

I´m using this filter.

That´s great.

Thanks

[gambit623]

that is actually awesome

im definatley using it in my nxt video

[pezraro]

and the original movement is as hard as j-lo's...

[pezraro]

as you said, "smooth as a baby's butt" hahaha!!!!

[ziggazig777]

hop dang doodly doo that's a nice effect. i've used it lots.

[Webduder]

This is really a great and professional tutorial. Interesting ad well made. You wouldnt know where I could get FCP6 for free ?? In case you know, please let me know too :o)

[carlheanerd]

I can't wait for this in iMovie '09!

[ddfilm92]

not gonna happen, its not even in Final Cut Express

[GeurillaVideo]

there is a reason imovie is free and FCP costs upwards of one thousand dollars.

[ClickComedy]

it costs 70 dollars dude

[GeurillaVideo]

only final cut Express is that cheap, final cut Pro is crazy expensive.

[ClickComedy]

i think u mean the whole package man. Lol i got final cut pro for 70 dollars. You must mean Final Cut Studio 2 with Color, soundwave etc.

[Macaddict54]

where did you buy only final cut pro i realy want 2 know

[loveja1]

Hey emeek, now the question is how is the image quality? when you stretch the video out you spread the pixels out which kills the quality, how can you compensate for that now? Thanks for making all these tutorials for everyone, your the best

[DannyAdamTV]

i dont think so i wish

[TSsparky]

Great video's man, keep it up..

Thanks heaps

[boblifegoeson1234]

nice, is their this filter for Express?