If you've ever wondered if there's an alternative to using the Smoothcam Filter in Final Cut Pro, there is:  it's called Lock & Load, and it's available from CoreMelt.  This week's featured plug-in takes your hand held shaky camera footage and makes it usuable footage.  Just select the clip, analyze it in seconds and playback the smoothed clip; even on clips with complex rotational motion or camera zooms.  Compared to other stabilizing filters, Lock & Load only analyzes the section of the clip between the in & out points, and is up to 12 times faster.  It also analyzes in the background so you can work on other clips while it's working; so no more waiting.

Lock & Load also features advanced tracking techniques which allow transitions to be added without having to re-analyze.  It also features intelligent adaptive zoom, so it will automatically compensate for differing levels of movement and zoom in to remove edges.

Once downloaded, Lock & Load can be found under the Effects Tab in your Browser window.
You can trial the plug-in and see for yourself.  But in comparison to smoothcam, Lock & Load is much faster, and well worth the money spent!