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Edit Well: Final Cut Studio Techniques from the Pros
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Edit Well: Final Cut Studio Techniques from the Pros

by Larry Jordan
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 57m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 10. Adding Stability with SmoothCam

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You know the drill: There isn’t enough time to set up a tripod, so you decide to shoot the scene handheld. Except, once you start editing, you discover the camera is moving so much your viewers are getting motion sickness.

In the past, because there was nothing you could do inside Final Cut to stabilize these shots, you had three choices: not use the shot, use it and hope for the best, or move the clip into another application (such as After Effects or Boris Red) to stabilize it.

With the release of Final Cut Studio 2 and Final Cut Pro 6, you can now stabilize your shots directly in Final Cut using the SmoothCam filter. And this filter is a beauty! Follow along to ...

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