Stabilization option disappears for some clips

"Right click" the messed up clip, choose "Open in Timeline" and once you do you should see the option back in the inspector. I used to use a different, way more annoying solution, so I wanted to tell everyone about this one. Good luck! Happy editing. God bless.

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.

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.

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 😉

This is a great work-around. Thanks.

A shame this is still happening in 10.1

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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.

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

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.

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

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.

Yes. Open in Timeline should work.

Russ

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!

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.

I have version 10.2.3 and there is still the problem.

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

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.