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Use case examples

Smoothie is a real swiss army knife when you know all of it's tricks, I'll list all the actual use cases I've seen Smoothie be a great alternative for.

High-FPS VEGAS Pro editing

(This could be applied to Premiere Pro as well, though it has much faster pre-render/proxy capabilities, but objectively worse looking frame blending)

Let's say I record in 480FPS and like to frame blend & export at 60FPS:

Instead of:

  • Importing footage in VEGAS Pro
  • Editing the footage with lots of preview lag running at 5~15 FPS tops
  • Exporting with smart resampling (slow)
  • Messed something up? Need to export again? Gotta also resample everything AGAIN

Consider:

  • Using Smoothie with frame blending on all clips
  • Importing footage in VEGAS Pro
  • Editing the footage with way less preview lag
  • Exporting at the same framerate as your clips (no smart resampling thus fast)

The only downside is that if you use something like velocity / slow downs it'll look choppy, but nothing prevents you from replacing that particular part with the original 480FPS clip

Flowframes (for 60+fps interp then frame blending)

e.g in the context of gpu-intensive tasks like recording Apex Legends gameplay

Let's say we recorded in 180fps:

Instead of:

  • Interpolating each video file sequentially with Flowframes and exporting in PNG sequence
  • Accounting for the temp storage it's gonna take from extracting video files into raw frames
  • Opening VEGAS and import as PNG sequence
  • Exporting with smart resampling

Consider:

Enjoy ur smooth frags :)

Doing render tests

For my fellow #video-dicussion frogs :)

Instead of:

  • Importing footage in VEGAS Pro
  • Adding your color grading settings & LUT file
  • Exporting with MAGIX at 240M bitrate
  • Moving output video file to your upscale folder
  • Renaming it to input.mp4
  • Sorting out the previous video files you had left in the upscale folder
  • Running upscale.bat
  • Uploading to YouTube

Consider: