Artifacts in Final Cut Pro

Let me first start off by saying that I am new to the Shake realm but have been a long time editor with Final Cut Pro. With that said, I am running Final Cut 5.1.1 and I sent a clip from my timeline to Shake to use the smoothcam node. After I tweaked the clip in shake I rendered the file out node but when I view the clip in Final Cut Pro there are artifacts all over the screen. It almost looks like the video is interlaced. I put the de-interlace filter on both the original and the shake composite but it didnt do much. Any ideas?

Well, to me that after picture looks like feeding interlaced material to smoothcam without telling it. It's analysing the frame like it's progressive material as opposed to dealing with each field as a frame. At least to me, that's what it looks like.
As to the difference between SmoothCam and Stabilize, SmoothCam does an optical flow analysis of the material, then calculates movement and counters it to the degree specified. With Stabilize, you pick up to 4 tracking points, then track them, then use that to lock down the shot. If you still want movement, but want to remove jumpiness, you have to process the tracking curves to allow movement, but remove glitchiness.
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