SteadyCam in Motion or Shake or Final Cut Pro????

I have footage I need to steady, and I would like to know which does Steady-Cam better? Shake, Motion, or Final Cut Pro? Thank you.

Howdy,
Actually, Motion and FCP both use the same optical-flow-based stabilization technology, which is a newer version of what's in Shake. In FCP, it's called SmoothCam. In Motion, it's done via the Stabilize behavior. Also, if you've already done your SmoothCam analysis in FCP and then you send the clip to Motion, the analysis will be usable in Motion (no need to re-analyze).
The nice thing about doing the stabilization in Motion is that you can play with it while playing back, allowing you to interactively adjust how the smoothing is applied. In Shake, you'd have to make a change, render a flipbook, make another change, render again, etc.

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