Smoothcamed clip looks good in canvas, terrible when exported

Hi. I'm working on a choppy shot taken on a boat. After applying the smoothcam filter, the shot looks much better, but ONLY in Final Cut's Canvas. When exported and played in any other program, it looks worse, jittery and streaky, like there is a translucent second layer over the original that is a few seconds off.
Curiously, the smoothcamed clip also looks bad when played FULL SCREEN in Final Cut using the 'digital cinema desktop preview' function.
The only time it looks good is in final cut's canvas (but not full screen).
Anyone know why this is happening and how to get the results I'm seeing in the canvas for output?
The temp work around I've devised is to play the clip in a large canvas and to capture with a desktop video capturing program. The clip is smooth but we're losing too much resolution.
FYI: no luck smoothcaming in motion, which zooms in too far.
Thanks in advance for help. 

The Canvas is only showing you some of the pixels, smoothing out what it cannot show in full rez. You're also seeing a reduced frame rate sort of, it's progressive and your footage is probably interlaced. Smoothing attempts to do huge pixel-level manipulations and the results can be terrible and sometimes liquidy, as you have seen. Aren't there settings you can adjust down? Sorry, not at my FCP machine this morning to check that for you.
Try hitting a few of the Motion training sites to see if ayone has something to say about smoothing.
In Motion, you can switch off the automatic zooming feture that attempts to hide the edges bt you're going to be forced to deal with the visible edges somehow.
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