SmoothCam Filter Missing

Question

Since upgrading to Leopard and FCP 6.02 the SmoothCam video filter is missing from the pull down menu. Effects availability is selected to all. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

Hi,
welcome to this forum!
We are reading several complains about this topic.
I did not upgrade to 6.0.2 because I sensed that it could bring some unpleasant anomalies, however, my theory is that Smoothcam is not showing up in the VIDEO filters folder because its FXscript has been modified.
In a nutshell, the filter is essentially a code which is written in a similar way like HTML or other scripts.
Just to give you an example, I show you what Colour corrector 3 way is based on:
scriptid "Color Corrector 3-way" //DO NOT LOCALIZE
filter "Color Corrector 3-way"
group "Color Correction"
// COLOR CORRECTION CONTROLS
input dispMode, "Display Mode", Popup, 1, "Final", "Matte", "Source"
input label1, "Blacks Controls", label, ""
input blacklevel, "Level", slider, 0, -196, 254 detent 0
input b_hue, "Angle", angle, -33, -180, 180
input b_mag, "Magnitude", slider, 0, 0, 200
input label2, "Midrange Controls", label, ""
input mids, "Level", slider, 100, 0, 200 detent 100
input m_hue, "Angle", angle, -33, -180, 180
input m_mag, "Magnitude", slider, 0, 0, 200
input label3, "Highlight Controls", label, ""
input highlights, "Level", slider, 255, 64, 509 detent 255
input h_hue, "Angle", angle, -33, -180, 180
input h_mag, "Magnitude", slider, 0, 0, 200
input label4, "Color Controls", label, ""
input chroma, "Saturation", slider, 100, 0, 200 detent 100
// LIMIT EFFECT CONTROLS
input label5, "Limit Effect Controls",label, ""
input doChroma, "Limit on Chroma", CheckBox,0
input centerAng, "Chroma Center", angle, -110, -760, 760
input chromaWidth, "Chroma Width", Slider, 15.0, 0, 360
input chromaSoft, "Chroma Softness", Slider, 10, 0, 180
input doSat, "Limit on Saturation", CheckBox, 0
input satMin, "Sat. Minimum", Slider, 35, 0, 125 detent 100
input satWidth, "Sat. Width", Slider, 40, 0, 125 detent 100
input satSoft, "Sat. Softness", Slider, 20, 0, 125
input doLuma, "Limit on Luma", CheckBox, 0
input lumaMin, "Luma Minimum", Slider, 0, 0, 120 detent 100
input lumaWidth, "Luma Width", Slider, 40, 0, 120 detent 100
input lumaSoft, "Luma Softness", Slider, 20, 0, 120
input label6, "Edge Control", label, ""
input edgeThin, "Thin/Spread", slider, 0, -100, 100 detent 0
input edgeFeather, "Softening", slider, 0, 0, 100 detent 50
input label7, "Mask Control", label, ""
input invertSel, "Invert", checkbox, 0
input debugShow, "Show Stats", checkbox, 0
InformationFlag("YUVaware")
InformationFlag("collapsed")
code
if previewing && dispMode == 3
dest = src1
else
float lumaMax, satMax, i
lumaMax = lumaMin + lumaWidth
satMax = satMin + satWidth
if ( lumaMax > 120 )
lumaMax = 120
end if
if ( satMax > 120 )
satMax = 120
end if
// assumptions:
// blacks is -254 - 254 (0 is default)
// highlights is 1 - 509 (255 is default)
// hue is an angle of the trackball
// magnitude is the offset of the trackball.
// saturation is a multiplier on the way out.
// First, build the luminance lookup table. This is an absolute lookup table for Y.
// This is very similar to building the R,G,B lookup tables found in the single-hue corrector.
point framesize
float ymap[256]
float magnitude
convertimage( src1, src1, kFormatYUV219 )
if ( doLuma || doChroma || doSat )
// IF we are doing a "Limit effect", make a copy of src1 as YUV data
dimensionsof( dest, framesize.h, framesize.v );
image tmpSrc[framesize.h][framesize.v]
setpixelformat( tmpSrc, getpixelformat( src1 ) )
channelcopy( src1, tmpSrc, kalpha, kred, kgreen, kblue );
if ( edgeThin != 0 || edgeFeather != 0 )
dimensionsof( dest, framesize.h, framesize.v)
image tmpbuf[framesize.h][framesize.v]
setpixelformat( tmpbuf, getpixelformat( src1 ) )
end if
end if
// Correct the Luminance
CreateBezMap(ymap, blacklevel, mids, highlights)
LevelMap( src1, dest, linearRamp, ymap, linearRamp, linearRamp )
// Now, adjust the color of the image based on the three "trackballs"
colorcorrect( dest, dest, b_hue, b_mag/100, m_hue, m_mag/100, h_hue, h_mag/100, chroma/100 );
if ( doLuma || doChroma || doSat )
float fillRGB
fillRGB = 0
ChromaAngleKey( tmpSrc, tmpSrc, doLuma, lumaMin/100, lumaMax/100, lumaSoft/100, doSat, satMin/100, satMax/100, satSoft/100, doChroma, centerAng, chromaWidth, chromaSoft, 0)
// get key into tmpSrc, invert tmp's alpha channel, then copy tmp's alpha into dest.
if ( edgeThin != 0 || edgeFeather != 0 )
doEdges( tmpSrc, tmpSrc, fillRGB )
end if
if !invertSel
invertchannel( tmpSrc, tmpSrc, 1, 0, 0, 0 )
end if
if (!previewing || dispMode == 1) // Final
doComposite( tmpSrc, dest )
else
// dispMode = 2 -- Matte
setpixelformat( tmpsrc, kformatrgb255 )
if ( !fieldprocessing || fieldNumber == 1 )
// set pixel format on the first field, or if we're not field processing.
setpixelformat( dest, kformatrgb255 )
else
// But on the second one, dest already contains data, so convert it
convertimage( dest, dest, kFormatrgb255 );
end if
channelcopy( tmpsrc, dest, kalpha, kalpha, kalpha, kalpha )
channelfill( tmpsrc, 255, -1, -1, -1 )
end if
end if
if ( previewing && debugShow && (!fieldProcessing || fieldnumber == 1 ))
point graphRect[4]
// Upper left: Luminance map
makerect( graphRect, -100, -100, 100, 100 )
FramePoly(graphRect, dest, kGray, 1)
drawgraph( dest, ymap, 0, 255, 0, 1, graphRect, kwhite, aspectof(dest))
end if
end if
Now if you look at the first three lines of this code it says:
*group "Color Correction"*
I beleive Smoothcam path has been changed, however it should appear in you internal FXplugins system folders somewhere:
See if you can find it and also see if it has been moved to a different FX folder.
I recently learnt that Vignette filter has moved from STYLIZE folder to COLOR CORRECTION one (thanks to other posters).
Please report your results.
G.