If you've ever used the Fluidmotion effect, you've probably seen part of your image bend and morph like the special effect used in the "Predator" movies. While the Fluidmotion effect has great tools to correct these issues, they can be painful to use. Fluidmotion takes a great amount of processing power and updates while using the tools can be slow to say the least.

I've found while working on 2K sequences, it is much easier and faster to copy the affected frames to another video track above the Fluidmotion clip, change the properties to either "none" or "linear" and paint out all but the area that needs fixed.

The speed will match because you've the frames and properties from the clip below and it is much, much faster to render. No one will notice the small part of the frame that is interpolated differently from the Fluidmotion part.

Michael Forrest