Stabilise only part of clip?

I frequently edit videos that are made of 4-5 minute clips (usually in multicam). Often I want to use stabilisation on just a few seconds of said clips. But it seems like FCPX analyses and corrects the full 4-5 minute clip and not just the edit I want to be stabilised. This leads to really bad stabilisation. How can I tell FCPX just to apply and analyse just those seconds?

Have you tried cutting the clip at the start and end of the section you want to fix and then applying stabilization to only that part?

edit: Forgot to add that depending on how much that part is stabilized the software will zoom in a bit (or a lot) so you'd need to adjust the scale on the parts before and after so the change isn't obvious.

That's the reason I want it to be only doing it's thing on the part I select. Because if it's done on only the best parts it can work fine. But if it also tries to correct the bad parts it has to zoom in to kingdom come

DmitriZigany wrote: I frequently edit videos that are made of 4-5 minute clips (usually in multicam). Often I want to use stabilisation on just a few seconds of said clips. But it seems like FCPX analyses and corrects the full 4-5 minute clip and not just the edit I want to be stabilised....

This is a very common need, yet to my knowledge there is no way to stabilize an edited multicam clip. You must use this laborious procedure:

1. On multi cam storyline, select clip to stabilize, then shift+f to locate the clip in the event browser, this will highlight it.
2. Cmd+1: go to event browser window, look at time code & remember it. To enable direct time code display in skimmer: View->Show Skimmer Info.
3. On multicam storyline, right click the clip, select “Open in angle editor"
4. Once in Angle Editor, press Control+P to type in the remembered time code. Don’t enter colons, just the numbers and press enter. This will jump to the base clip in the angle editor. If many sync’d tracks, you have to figure out which clip by observation but the playhead should be in the right location.
5. Blade that section of the clip, select it, then apply stabilization.
6. In upper left of angle editor timelines, press back arrow to return to multi cam storyline.

If there is a better way, I'd like to know it.

It is something I do often. I use Lock & Load X for it.

I cut the part I want to stabilize. I apply lock and load. I set a keyframe on the strength, to go from 0 to 1, and at the end from 1 to 0.

That way I get a smooth stabilization and you don't notice the zooming.

Lock & Load is far superior, for sure. Very wroth it.

+1 on the previous 2 comments - I too have switched to Lock & Load.

Hi to everyone,

joema wrote:

DmitriZigany wrote: I frequently edit videos that are made of 4-5 minute clips (usually in multicam). Often I want to use stabilisation on just a few seconds of said clips. But it seems like FCPX analyses and corrects the full 4-5 minute clip and not just the edit I want to be stabilised....

This is a very common need, yet to my knowledge there is no way to stabilize an edited multicam clip. You must use this laborious procedure:

1. On multi cam storyline, select clip to stabilize, then shift+f to locate the clip in the event browser, this will highlight it.
2. Cmd+1: go to event browser window, look at time code & remember it. To enable direct time code display in skimmer: View->Show Skimmer Info.
3. On multicam storyline, right click the clip, select “Open in angle editor"
4. Once in Angle Editor, press Control+P to type in the remembered time code. Don’t enter colons, just the numbers and press enter. This will jump to the base clip in the angle editor. If many sync’d tracks, you have to figure out which clip by observation but the playhead should be in the right location.
5. Blade that section of the clip, select it, then apply stabilization.
6. In upper left of angle editor timelines, press back arrow to return to multi cam storyline.

If there is a better way, I'd like to know it.

A more organized (more easy) way could be:

1. Yes, select the clip and then shift+f to locate it.
2. But when it's highlighted in the browser create a keyword collection. For example your clip
is from the 2nd angle (cam or whatever) name it: stab_ang02 (stab means stabilized)
3. Drag the highlighted portion from the browser to the keyword collection.
4. If there are more clips to stabilize in different angles, repeat it with every angle.
5. Now you are ending up with keyword collections containing the time code in/out/dur.
6. Open the angle editor and now you can blade the portions while looking at the time codes
and knowing whats the right angle.

Marco S.

Thanks for suggestions!

This reminded me of one of my pet peeves about multicam use: when you select and edit in the timeline and choose "show in angle editor" it should go to the angle editor and the part that was in the timeline should be selected! It's totally retarded that it's not.