Outsmarting smoothcam

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yommytacoe

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Howdy,
I'm editing this movie that has a 3 minute shot that follows the subject as he walks through a house. It was done with a homemade steadicam, so there were a few shakes that I wanted to smooth out with smoothcam. It worked great except for at one point, there is an explosion in the shot which was added in after effects. For some reason the explosion totally screws up the smoothcam because it is such a sudden movement, and the camera is in motion at the time. Unfortunately you can't keyframe the filter so that it knows how much to stablize at any given time. The only option you have is "mix" which basically dissolves between the smoothcam'd video, and the original, so you get weird blending like you would if you simply dissolved between the two. Is there any way around this or am I hosed?
 
hmm not sure if i understand completely, but if you just want to turn it off for a second, can't you just use the blade tool, cut out the section you want, than pull off the effect. Again, you might have been asking something else so not sure
 
How about smoothing the shot before adding the explosion?

Otherwise- cut out that section and use keyframes in the motion tab to match the crossover points at the cut, instead of a dissolve. That's all smoothcam does anyway, just zooms in and moves the frame around.
 
Why not just make a razor blade cut at the start and end of the "explosion"? Then apply smoothcam to the parts you want.
 
Unfortunately that doesn't work- smoothcam always wants to use the entire piece of media. So if you want to apply on a shorter piece you need to export just that to create a new piece of media, then replace on your timeline and apply SC.

Noah
 
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