I am blurring out a small dust spot on my shot BEFORE stabilizing it and I cannot clean up my shot, then stabilize the compound clip..!!! When I stabilize it without making it a Compound Clip, the spot stays stationary and my spot is back dancing all over the place. PLEASE FIX!!! It ***** that I may have to export EACH shot, just to import it again to satbilize...
AND WHERE IS THE SEND TO MOTION FEATURE?
Thanks..
Final Cut Pro X
I am blurring out a small dust spot on my shot BEFORE stabilizing it and I cannot clean up my shot, then stabilize the compound clip..!!!
You'd better describe exactly what you're doing to clean up the shot. The second half of the sentence needs a bit of explanation. How and why did it become a compound clip?
The render order will probabluy mean you need to stabilize the shot, then make it a compound clip, and then apply the clean up.
The main question is why can you NOT stabilize a Compound Clip???
The reason is this..
There was a dust spec on my camera sensor... I also need to stabilize the shot... When I stabilize the shot, the spot dances around (as it would).. I want to blur that small part of the frame and then stabilize it, but the stabilizer doesn not match move my small blur matte with the rest of the clip... the blur remains in the same place and does not follow the newly stabilized frame... If I blur my spec, then make a compound clip (to stabilize), It does not allow me to
If I stabilize it first, then clean it up, I have to track the dust spot flying all over the place. I want to clean up the dust first, since it is stationary in the original frame.
Does that make sense??
What I am doing now is time consuming... I'm cleaning up my dust spec, exporting the shot, then re-importing it and then stabiliizing it.. It's a lot more work and I have a lot of shots to do.. And I wish I could export specific shots or a time frame of my timeline rather than crating a new timline just to isolate shots to export....
The main question is why can you NOT stabilize a Compound Clip???
FCP has to analyze the media to stabilize a clip. A compound clip can be a whole bunch of different shots and titles and audio and graphics. There's no way it can stabilize that. What media should it look it?
"What media should it look at?" The finished frame? I knowe that it doesn't make sens to want to stabilize a complicated frame, but I am supplying a regular shot frame with about 2 pixels of cleanup... It should be available, knowing that it will be ineffective for crazy comps. But it should be able to analize whatever is in that window.
It can't look at the finished frame. It analysis the media. The clip on the hard drive. That's what it looks at not the frame in the viewer, which can be anything. It can be a whole bunch of different shots all together.
Your best bet is probably to open the clip from the browser into the timeline, stabilize it, export it, and then reimport to clean up the frame.
Yeah.. That's what I am doing... It's time consuming and is a pain (especially when I need to alter the cut and timing later on down the road).. I do not like that I have to create a dummy timeline just to export select clips.
I wish you could select a clip in an edited timeline and just export that clip (or from in to out like in FCS). Why have some of the most simplest things and editor uses gone away from FCS?
But.. there are a lot of new great things, but I hope they listen to what poeple want. I already have two of my die hard Apple/FCP friends/companies move to Premiere. They love the Premiere/AE integration... Why has Apple lost this with FCPX and Motion5?
Stabilize a Compound Clip
