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Uploaded by on Aug 1, 2007

This will make any lame shitty shooter with a cheapo HD camera look like a steadycam pro! It's pretty cool... It's actually enabling me to use just about all of my old work from my first couple years in college :D lol

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  • it looks like it crops in like 10% when the filter is applied

    do find that you get a loss of image quality?

  • yeah definitely. "smoothcam" is definitely something you need to plan to use if you're going to use it. if anything just use the motion tracking and match motion behaviors in Apple's Motion 3. As for how much it crops, final cut will automatically set the percentage. The footage I shot there was a few years ago... and was the shakiest footage I could fine. I think if I were to have shot in HD, it wouldn't have been so much of a loss of quality especially for the internet.

  • idiots! It does not zoom it in whoever posted this manually zoomed it in themselves by changing the scale under basic motion.

  • ok, so I'll explain this real nice and simple for you. I went out to the Fort Lauderdale Air & Sea Show about 2 years ago with a Canon XL-2. I didn't have a tripod. I was sitting really far away from all the action way out on the beach. No tripod + onboard camera zoom = shaky-ass footage! The "SmoothCam" feature in Final Cut Pro 6 stabilizes footage by zooming, cropping and repositioning the image in the canvas, which can all be tweaked. Yes it does zoom and crop on it's own in the filter

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  • @Atlanticinsunder My final cut doesn't have this. How do I get it?

  • Could you please tell me if Final Cut Express is having this plugin, too?

    I would highly appreciate it!

  • unless your shooting hd, your gonna loose resolution as shown

  • cant you set how much the filter crops out? I think Ive seen a few people do it with the full image size

  • is this avialable too on my final cut pro 5.0.4?

  • it uses croping and moving to do this

    thats why each shot is zoomed in a bit

  • Nice,

    more goodies to make peoples horrible projects look an asshair less horrible. At least, from a technical point of view. Wont do much for bad writing, acting, directing, and editing.

    ...that's coming out next year. The beta will be out soon. I think they are calling it the Nub filter. 99.8% of projects are going to be really appealing. Sucks though, for that 0.2% that had good skills already. Oh well.

    Yay technology!

  • No. After Effects was coded in carbon, which is ancient technology (90s) Final Cut is cocoa and uses available resources more effectively.

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