It reads the videographer's intention
It knows the difference between walking into position and actually shooting, and marks where the shot really begins. Choose how strict it should be: Smooth, Moderate, Action, or a threshold of your own.
Universal macOS app · Premiere Pro panel
Every take has a perfect few seconds. SmoothDetect finds them.
Point it at a folder of gimbal, handheld or drone footage. It goes through every clip, marks where the shot settles and turns silky, and hands back trimmed moments — real files, ready for whichever editor you cut in.
Apple silicon · app works with any NLE · panel for Premiere Pro · perpetual licence
Hero image slot
The app window — session view with clips found and a moment open in the player.
in 00:00:19:20
out 00:00:24:18
4.9s usable
the rest is the walk in and the walk out
How it works
Three passes, one folder in, a cut-ready bin out.
You already know which shots are good. The job is finding exactly where each one settles — and doing it across two hundred clips without watching them all.
Moments, not whole takes
Each clip gets in and out points around its usable window. Copy-trim losslessly, or encode ProRes for a heavier grade. Nothing is re-rendered that doesn't need to be.
Speed shaped to the move
Ease in, ease out, or through the middle — at slow, medium or fast pace, optionally locked to your track's tempo. Render them for the whole batch as it ingests, or one clip at a time. Rendered, not keyframed, so the timeline stays light.
The app
Batch the boring part.
Drop in a shoot folder and walk away. SmoothDetect works through every clip, shows you what it found, and lets you overrule it wherever your eye disagrees. It hands back trimmed files and XML — so it fits Resolve, Final Cut, Avid or Premiere without caring which one you opened.
A session you can actually read
Every clip in the batch, with its found window, duration and status. Scrub any moment before you commit to it.
- Live queue — analysed, rendered and remaining, at a glance
- Player with real handles — nudge in and out, see the frame
- Reject a clip and it stays out of everything downstream
- Reopen a session and your results are still there
GIF slot · 16:9
Screen record: batch running, clips filling in, a moment being scrubbed.
Ramp the whole shoot, or one shot
Ramps come out as rendered files with real motion — no keyframe soup in your sequence, and no plugin dependency for whoever opens the project after you. Three ways to make them, depending on how sure you are.
- As it ingests — select one clip or the whole batch and the ramps render while the footage comes in. Walk away, come back to shaped shots.
- Per clip, in the app — every moment in the list carries its own ramp buttons. Working in XML-only or trim-only? The buttons are still there; ramp the three shots that need it and leave the rest alone.
- Per clip, in Premiere — ramp whatever's selected on the timeline, in place, from the panel.
- In · Out · Mid · In+Out at slow, medium or fast pace — or locked to your track's tempo
GIF slot · 16:9
Screen record: the clip list scrolling with ramp buttons on each card, one being clicked, then the rendered result playing.
The Premiere panel
SmoothDetect Link lives where you cut.
Three tabs inside Premiere Pro. Bring the moments in, render ramps against what's on the timeline, and fix the things that normally cost you an afternoon.
Import
IncludedPanel UI · 3:4
The Import tab itself — buttons, options, the panel as it sits in Premiere.
- Moments land as trimmed subclips with thumbnails
- A string-out sequence, built in order, ready to shape
- Drag any moment out and it keeps its trim
Ramps
IncludedPanel UI · 3:4
The Ramps tab itself — curve buttons, pace options, the render queue.
- Ramp the clip you've got selected, in place
- Renders only what this cut needs — not every variant
- Reverse a shot without losing its trim
Tools
StudioPanel UI · 3:4
The Tools tab itself — the twelve tiles, Cycle mode, the status readout.
- Twelve tools for reworking a cut that already exists
- Every one leaves your edit points exactly where you put them
- One Revert button, and it walks the whole operation back
Cycle
Swap the shot in a slot for a different take of the same thing. The cut keeps its timing — only the footage changes.
Shuffle
Redeal the shots across the clips you've selected. Same edit points, new order, music still lines up.
Swap
Trade the contents of two clips with each other. Useful when a shot is right but in the wrong beat.
Split+Fill
Halve a clip and fill the back half with a different shot. One long beat becomes two, without re-cutting.
Fill gap
Drop a fresh shot into the gap under the playhead, trimmed to fit it exactly.
Reject
Banish a shot you never want to see again. Cycle, Fill gap and Split+Fill stop offering it.
Reverse
Play a shot backwards without losing its trim — the moment stays the moment, running the other way.
Warp 3% · 50%
Stabilise what's selected, gentle or heavy, without opening the effect panel.
Warp All
Sweep the entire timeline, stabilising everything that isn't already done.
Re-analyse
Find clips whose stabilisation broke and repair them, keeping the settings you chose.
Fit
Make 4K on a 1080 timeline read a true 50% — the number every other plugin expects to see.
In 5% · Out 5%
Nudge scale in or out, five percent a click, for quick reframes.
rearranging the cut
motion and stabilisation
framing
GIF slot · 16:9 · full screen
Screen record the whole window: clicking Cycle and Shuffle in the panel while the clips on the timeline change — cuts staying put, footage swapping.
The stabiliser problem, handled
Warp Stabilizer breaks quietly. Extend a clip and its analysis goes stale; reverse one and it refuses outright. SmoothDetect finds those clips itself and repairs them — keeping the smoothness, method and detail settings you chose.
- Finds the broken clips itself — no hunting through the timeline
- Re-analyses in place without resetting your settings
- Fixes the reversed-clip refusal automatically, nest and all
- Steps smoothness down when a shot is too wild at 50%
GIF slot · 16:9 · full screen
Screen record the whole window: red warning banners on the timeline clearing one by one as the queue works through them.
Pricing
Buy it once. It stays yours.
One licence covers the app and the panel. No subscription, no per-project fee, no phoning home mid-render.
SmoothDetect
$99
Everything you need to find moments, trim them and get ramped shots onto a timeline.
- The macOS app — batch analysis, trims and ramp rendering
- Premiere panel: Import and Ramps tabs
- Lossless copy trims and ProRes encodes
- Frame-rate conform and XML export
SmoothDetect Studio
$149
Everything above, plus the timeline tools — the ones that save the afternoon, not the minute.
- Everything in SmoothDetect
- Panel Tools tab: Cycle, Shuffle, Swap, Split+Fill, Fill gap, Reject
- Warp All and Re-analyse — whole-timeline stabilisation
- Automatic repair for reversed and over-moving clips
Started on $99? Upgrading later costs the difference — same licence, the Tools tab simply appears.
- App runs on
- macOS, Apple silicon
- App works with
- Any NLE — trimmed files + XML
- Panel
- Premiere Pro
- Licence
- Perpetual, one machine
- Updates
- Free for 12 months
Stop scrubbing for the good bit.
Give it a shoot folder tonight and see what it hands back.