Apple Final Cut Pro X (10.0.9) - Manual (Page 156)

Chapter 8 Edit your project 156
1 Select a clip in the Timeline, and open the Video inspector.
2 Do any of the following:
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To adjust left, right, up, and down movement of a shot (x and y axes): Drag the Translation
Smooth slider.
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To adjust rotation around the center point of the image: Drag the Rotation Smooth slider.
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To adjust forward or backward camera or lens movement (z axis): Drag the Scale Smooth slider.
For example, if you want to remove horizontal, vertical, and rotational shake, you should set
the Translation Smooth and Rotation Smooth parameters to a value above 0. You may need to
experiment to see which values steady your shot the best.
Note: When a clip has too much motion (excessive panning, for example), stabilizing the clip
may result in black bars on the edges of the video.
To avoid the black bars, you can:
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Reduce the values for the Translation Smooth, Rotation Smooth, and Scale Smooth parameters.
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Cut or trim the clip in the Timeline to remove the sections with the most shake. (You can
locate the sections with excessive shake in the Tags pane of the Timeline Index. Click the
individual Excessive Shake tags to select the corresponding ranges in the Timeline.)
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Crop the edges of the stabilized video to remove the black bars.