Cannot export cleanly from FCP 7

Purchased Final Cut Studio 3 to replace ageing FCP 5. The SmoothCam feature is one of the main reasons for getting FC Studio but it appears to be responsible for preventing edited sequences being exported cleanly. The exported movies are absolute rubbish with the image jerking around all over the place.
FCP Help says nothing bar explaining the standard method of exporting.
Has anyone else experienced this or know why it is happening?

Thanks for taking the trouble to respond. Haven't been back here for a while so I did not see it.
Yes I am aware of how SmoothCam evaluates the whole clip. Learned early on to keep clip sizes small that were likely to be SmoothCam'd!
The problem is with exporting the final edit. Although an apparently huge choice of formats is available, in practice only a very few seem to be usable due to the excessive vibration and shake that affects the exported video. It bears no relation to movement in the original footage.
Through trial and error (and countless hours of watching progress bars) I have narrowed down a few that do not suffer from these nasty artefacts.
Original footage is DVCPRO HD, FCP sequence settings are the same but any attempt to export to DVCPRO produces this horrible and violent movement. Exporting to Apple Intermediate Codec or ProRes 422, to name two, seems okay. the aim is to export at various qualities but the most important is the highest possible quality.

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