Starting and Stopping SmoothCam Motion Analysis
If you want to free up processing power to work on other things, you can stop motion
analysis or temporarily pause analysis and then resume it again later. You can also
submit clips to the processing queue, regardless of whether the SmoothCam filter is
applied to them.
To remove clips from the SmoothCam Analysis processing queue:
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Make sure the SmoothCam column is shown in the Browser.
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Select one or more clips in the Browser.
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Control-click in the SmoothCam column next to one of the selected clips, then choose
Stop Analysis from the shortcut menu.
Analysis for all selected clips is stopped. Analysis begins on the next clip in the queue.
Note: Motion analysis is applied to media files, not clips. Therefore, deleting a clip
doesn’t stop motion analysis for its media file.
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To submit clips to the SmoothCam Analysis processing queue:
1
Make sure the SmoothCam column is shown in the Browser.
2
Select one or more clips in the Browser.
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Control-click in the SmoothCam column next to one of the selected clips, then choose
Run Analysis from the shortcut menu.
To stop motion analysis for all clips in the processing queue:
1
In the Background Processes window, click the Stop button next to the progress bar.
A dialog appears asking if you are sure you want to stop analysis for all clips in the
processing queue.
2
Click Stop Task.
Incomplete motion analysis files are deleted if you stop analysis, so when you submit a
clip for analysis later, the whole clip is analyzed from the beginning.
To temporarily pause motion analysis:
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In the Background Processes window, click the Pause/Resume button.
To resume paused motion analysis:
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In the Background Processes window, click the Pause/Resume button.
Note: Quitting Final Cut Pro also stops the processing queue.