Clip question

Hello all, happy to have a new problem to bring to everyone's attention.
I'm on my first voyage with the Smooth Cam effect (another reason to keep producers off the camera). There are some places where I have to apply it and it's worked pretty well. The problem is that it analyzes the whole master clip rather than the clip in the timeline that I want to apply it to. This takes forever. Is there a way to only apply it to what's in the timeline?
I figure that I could somehow isolate the part of the clip that I want to use. Maybe make a new clip?
Thanks!

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