Final Cut Pro isnt applying SmoothCam

[baseballdude345]

I just upgraded to Final Cut Pro 6. I was very excited mainly for the fact of using the SmoothCam feature seeing as I am not the best at keeping a camera steady. The problem is, that when I select the clip into the viewer and go to effects and select smoothcam, it doesn't analyze or show up in the filters tab. Has anyone had any recent issues? Thanks

 

[vtonangi]

I'm having the same problem. I know that the clips have to be analyzed 1st, but I can't figure out how to actually analyze the clips at all...

If anyone knows how to use the smooth cam feature, please let me know - you can email me at vtonangi@gmail.com - I would appreciate it tremendously.

 

[NeoMayhem]

I have had problems with it not working on short clips. It also works a lot better with HD footage then DV.

There have been a few clips where it would just not work, but gave no error or anything. I never did figure out what the problem was.

I'm having the same problem. I know that the clips have to be analyzed 1st, but I can't figure out how to actually analyze the clips at all...

When you add the smoothcam filter it should analyze the clip if necessary.

 

[vtonangi]

I figured it out

I figured this issue out. I was using a Flip Mino HD, and the files were being saved as m4v format, and FCP can not analyze clips for stabilizaiton (and many other things as I found out), unless you change the format. I used Quicktime pro to convert it from .m4v to a .mov file, and I chose Pro Res for my sequence settings. This seemed to fix all the problems I was having.