SmoothCam troubling editing process

Just a few pieces of footage I wanted to be ' smoothcamed'.
Definitely not more than 20 seconds.
It takes hours rendering, and adds a lot of trouble:
- No autosave during rendering
- When you want to render audio or graphics, FCP starts rendering smoothcam first
- Turning off smoothcam clip by clip doesn't stop smoothcam-rendering
Smoothcam is troubling my editing process. What can I do?

Smoothcam will review the ENTIRE clip, not just the short bits you want.
Either capture discreet short clips (no Capture Now of the entire tape) or export the short segment you want to smooth cam then reimport it before sending to Smoothcam.
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