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Q: Stabilization option disappears for some clips

Hi. Need a little help. When I highlight some clips in my timelin, the options for Stabilization and Rolling Shutter  simply do not appear in the video Inspector -- but those options are there when I highlight other clips.

 

Could you help me get the Stabilization option back for these clips?

 

In more detail, what happens is this:

  • In my timeline, I highlight one clip and all the standard video options appear in the Inspector: Color, Transform, Crop, Distort, Stabilization, Rolling Shutter, Spacial Conform, Compositing
  • I highlight another clip, and Stabilization and Rolling Shutter are the only options missing entirely in the Inspector
  • I've tried clicking on the down arow in the top left corner of the affected clips, and selected Analyze and Stabilize, but that does nothing and does not make the Stabilization and Rolling Shutter options appear in the Inspector
  • I've also tried launching a whole new project, dragging some of that footage back into the timeline, and the same thing happens: no Stabilization option in the Inspector

 

Been editing for months in FCPX and this is the first time this problem has come up. Did I accidentallyy click a button I shouldn't have? Any help to resolve this would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks!

Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Jul 4, 2012 9:33 PM

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  • by juxliano,

    juxliano juxliano Apr 19, 2014 8:32 AM in response to Studio Engineer
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    Apr 19, 2014 8:32 AM in response to Studio Engineer

    ONLY remedy is

     

    1) Select Clip in timeline

    2) Hit shift + F to highlight that exact selection in the event lib

    3) Delete clip from timeline

    4) Re-Insert Clip Selection from bullet point 2 above to timeline

     

    That will in all the cases I have had with it, re-enable the stabilization options.

     

    I did that, and closed and reopened FCP X, then the stabilization appears again.

  • by Jon Roemer,

    Jon Roemer Jon Roemer Apr 23, 2014 5:57 AM in response to juxliano
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    Apr 23, 2014 5:57 AM in response to juxliano

    juxliano wrote:

     

    ONLY remedy is

     

    1) Select Clip in timeline

    2) Hit shift + F to highlight that exact selection in the event lib

    3) Delete clip from timeline

    4) Re-Insert Clip Selection from bullet point 2 above to timeline

     

    That will in all the cases I have had with it, re-enable the stabilization options.

     

    Ran into this bug yesterday.  Stabilization would not work.  The above did work for me as a work-around.

  • by JenneVd,

    JenneVd JenneVd Jun 1, 2014 3:31 PM in response to Jon Roemer
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    Jun 1, 2014 3:31 PM in response to Jon Roemer

    Hey,

    I don't know it this will work for you, or if it even applies to the clip you're using, BUT I've had the same problem with a clip. I first stabilized it. I then detached the audio and deleted the audio, and returned to the Inspector to change some stabilization settings. But I noticed that the stabilization option had disappeared. I tried again some times, and always found the same: after detaching the audio from a clip, the stabilization option disappeared. I could stabilize and then detach the audio, but not in reversed order. Hope this helps. If not, then maybe Final Cut Pro does really differ from computer to computer. But then I can't help you

  • by wrrn,

    wrrn wrrn Jun 17, 2014 11:35 AM in response to coachinberkeley
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    Jun 17, 2014 11:35 AM in response to coachinberkeley

    This is a great work-around. Thanks.

    A shame this is still happening in 10.1

     

    ........RE.............

    I've had this problem too, and I'm not sure what the cause is, but the easiest way I've found to deal with it is to select the original clip in the event browser, drag it onto the troublesome clip in the timeline (so that you see the little green plus sign), and choose "Replace from start." That will at least leave all your markers, titles, etc. in place.

  • by Gary Cox1,

    Gary Cox1 Gary Cox1 Jul 17, 2014 12:56 PM in response to BazookaMama
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    Jul 17, 2014 12:56 PM in response to BazookaMama

    Seems this is still happening. Brand new Mac, loaded Final Cut Pro from scratch but loaded a current project from an external drive.  Latest OS, latest program version...  Some clips have the stabilization option and some don't.  It appears that the ones which do not have the option for stabilization are the clips on the timeline created from a multi camera edit of 4 cameras.   Based on all the responses of replacing clips etc... it doesn't appear to be a way to fix this with all the clips I have?  It really doesn't make sense why it just doesn't have this option for some clips.  There has to be a reason/cause?

     

    You would think after all this time some sort of fix/resoution would be available?

     

    .... Gary

  • by Gary Cox1,

    Gary Cox1 Gary Cox1 Jul 19, 2014 8:35 PM in response to Gary Cox1
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    Jul 19, 2014 8:35 PM in response to Gary Cox1

    I did figure out what is going on in my case.  I had a series of clips on the timeline created by multi camera edit.   If I went to the full length of each camera and stabilized the entire video from that camera then it also did it for the pieces that I used on the timeline.  Note the video on the timeline was using a separate audio sequence.   Definitely a bug in the software.

  • by joepollockfilms,

    joepollockfilms joepollockfilms Jul 30, 2014 3:39 PM in response to Gary Cox1
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    Jul 30, 2014 3:39 PM in response to Gary Cox1

    My solution was to re-insert the clip from the library. Worked fined then.

  • by wired2film,

    wired2film wired2film May 11, 2015 5:43 AM in response to BazookaMama
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    May 11, 2015 5:43 AM in response to BazookaMama

    I know this is kind of quirky fix, but I recently started having the same problem.  By curiosity I right clicked on the clip in the timeline and selected "Open In TImeline" and viola the stabilization and rolling shutter appeared.  Don't know if this will always work, but it did for me.

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H May 11, 2015 6:26 AM in response to wired2film
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    May 11, 2015 6:26 AM in response to wired2film

    Yes. Open in Timeline should work.

     

    Russ

  • by iGabas,

    iGabas iGabas Jun 6, 2015 10:15 PM in response to coachinberkeley
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    Jun 6, 2015 10:15 PM in response to coachinberkeley

    I've had this problem too, and I'm not sure what the cause is, but the easiest way I've found to deal with it is to select the original clip in the event browser, drag it onto the troublesome clip in the timeline (so that you see the little green plus sign), and choose "Replace from start." That will at least leave all your markers, titles, etc. in place.

    I hope that helps someone, and that Apple manages to address this problem in the next update!

     

    It's funny how people go past the correct answer just like that!
    coachinberkeley's answer was the simplest and yet the only one that works better on FCPROX 10.1.3 because on 10.2.1 there isn't this issue anymore (nor did on 10.1.4). Cheers mate!

  • by Vince Tanzilli,

    Vince Tanzilli Vince Tanzilli Jun 17, 2015 2:04 PM in response to iGabas
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    Jun 17, 2015 2:04 PM in response to iGabas

    Clips that have been synchronized (FCPX feature that sync's the external audio and video) WILL NOT stabilize until you "break apart clip items".  Here's the workflow: select clip in timeline, pulldown "break apart clip items" from clip pulldown. Reselect just the clip you want to stabilize and the stabilization feature will work.  Note: Sometimes when you stabilize, the clip gets hugely cropped.  This is a display artifact, simply quit and relaunch Final Cut  to '"fix" the weird crop.

  • by magill341,

    magill341 magill341 Jun 5, 2016 3:34 PM in response to iGabas
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    Jun 5, 2016 3:34 PM in response to iGabas

    I have version 10.2.3 and there is still the problem.

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Jun 5, 2016 3:37 PM in response to magill341
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    Jun 5, 2016 3:37 PM in response to magill341

    OOld thread. What exactly is your problem? What are you doing and what happens when you do it?

  • by magill341,

    magill341 magill341 Jun 5, 2016 6:02 PM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Jun 5, 2016 6:02 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

    I know it's an old thread. My problem is what is being asked about in this thread.

    Stabilization option disappears.

    And nothing in this thread gives a solution.

    And I have the aforementioned version number.

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Jun 5, 2016 6:11 PM in response to magill341
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    Jun 5, 2016 6:11 PM in response to magill341

    YYou've selected a clip in the timeline that isn't a sync clip, multcam clip, compound, or audition and it has no stabilization in the inspector? Can you give details of this clip so maybe someone can figure out why this is happening.

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