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Paul Patton

Q: Can't unshake my footage!

Hi I am working on a wedding that has a bit of jittering in some of the footage. I would like to stabilize all the footage. I cut the timeline in FCP and sent it to Shake. It shows up just fine in Shake, but I cannot get a display in the viewer! All that shows up is a black box. There are no fade-ins or gaps in the timeline. What am I doing wrong?

Please let me know.

Paul

Powermac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Feb 12, 2008 7:44 AM

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  • by Captain Mench,

    Captain Mench Captain Mench Feb 12, 2008 9:00 PM in response to Paul Patton
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    Feb 12, 2008 9:00 PM in response to Paul Patton
    Did you send the entire sequence to shake or just individual clips?

    Click your globals and set the frames then click the HOME button lower right and that will set the timeline to your globals.

    What you are probably seeing is a somewhere in the sequence that isn't where the clip you have selected is.

    If you've sent the entire sequence, try clicking on the switchtrack node.

    However - that's not your best workflow anyway. You should do clip by clip to shake.

    If you may, I might also humbly suggest that this seems like maybe your first go with shake? Take some time with the manuals -- I've done some tutorials over at Creativecow.net... they're very basic and if you watch all of them (4) you'll get a good rough idea of how to handle the basic basics of shake and fcp workflow.

    Good luck,

    CaptM
  • by Captain Mench,

    Captain Mench Captain Mench Feb 12, 2008 9:26 PM in response to Captain Mench
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    Feb 12, 2008 9:26 PM in response to Captain Mench
    Sorry -- I mean the SELECT node... will be the one below all of your other clips... and the one that all the clips are connected to.

    Depending on what you exported it as it will say "NAME"_Shake or something.

    CaptM
  • by Paul Patton,

    Paul Patton Paul Patton Oct 8, 2010 8:53 AM in response to Paul Patton
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    Oct 8, 2010 8:53 AM in response to Paul Patton
    2 years later, sorry for no reply, thank you for your help with this. I've been doing clip-by-clip to shake as you suggested. Thanks!