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Fixing shaky footage in Final Cut Pro X

Fixing shaky footage in Final Cut Pro X

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Fixing shaky footage in Final Cut Pro X

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- So, Rich, obviously we can do stabilization in a lot of different places: NLEs, motion graphic applications, color grading applications. Here we're inside of Final Cut Pro X, and we've imported a shot. Now, one of the cool things about Final Cut Pro X is that it can actually let you do a lot of ananlyzation on a clip, either on import or after the fact. So we imported this clip, but I think there's some, I wanna sort of have it do its best, so sort of figure out what the dominant motion is in the shot, because if I play this, you can see that there's, yeah, it's a little shaky, it's kind of from the backseat, it's a little weird. So what I'm gonna do on the shot, I'm simply gonna select it, come up to the Modify window, and down to Analyze and Fix. And you'll notice that one of the options that I have actually here is for Analyze for stabilization and rolling shutter. And this option actually isn't available on import, but it is available after the fact so you can analyze that clip.…

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