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Mercalli 2.0 SAL & Easy Q’s
In Sony Movie Studio 12, the included stabilizer is a notch down from Vegas Movie Studio 11. So I am trying the demos for Mercalli, both the “Easy” and the SAL. (Plugin is said not compatible with MS 12.)
The first issue is that both of those demos prompt me on startup with a dialog about required components not installed:
KLite-CodePack is installed but too old
Update: https://www.prodad.de/support/files/K-Lite_CodecPack.exeMany times I have heard the recommendation NOT to install KLite or any other “rogue” codec pack. So I ignored the recommendation. (I am not aware of ever having installed KLite at all, but that is another issue.) So my questions:
1) what do you users do about KLite as demanded by Mercalli? Does the Prodad website KLite install damage Vegas at all?
2) I find the Mercalli output format selections to be very limited (wmv, mpeg2, or Video for Windows/various). Is that a limitation of the demo (which also generates a big blue X over the video)? Does anyone see more choices? Or is that because Mercalli wants an up to date KLite?
3) For many of the output format choices there are no options that preserve aspect ratio or resolution, several of the choices can’t even establish the connection graph, and some just generate lousy quality. Better experience anyone?
4) Is there any other good quality approach to decent stabilization not more costly than Mercalli. My fallback might be to stabilize clips “standalone” in VMS 11 and import them into MS 12.
Thanks,
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>>1) what do you users do about KLite as demanded by Mercalli? Does the Prodad website KLite install damage Vegas at all?<< I can speak to question 1 that asks whether KLite damages Vegas. I am using Vegas Pro, but I suspect the same answer applies to Vegas Movie Studio. Based on my experience yesterday (detailed below), KLite will break Vegas. I have been using the Mercalli 2 plug-in for Vegas Pro for a couple years now, but never installed the SAL. Yesterday I decided to try the SAL. I installed it and the first time I ran it, I and got the same message you got about having an out-of-date version of kLite (I also had never knowingly installed KLite even though the message claimed I had an old version.) I foolishly ignored the common advice to never install codec packs. I figured since many Vegas users use Mercalli SAL, it must be OK in this instance. Installing KLite made SAL work, but broke Vegas Pro. It would not even launch. I had to uninstall KLite, then uninstall Vegas Pro and re-install it. I did some research about this on this forum and on the Sony Creative Software Vegas forum and found discussion about this very issue. One recommendation was to just install Matoska Splitter and ffdshow. I downloaded and ran the ffdshow installer but it has some installation options you have to choose and I wasn't sure which options to select, so I canceled the installation. Hopefully someone can tell you (and me) how to get SAL working without breaking Vegas. In the meantime, I would advise against installing KLite.
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Yikes! Thanks for that heads up, Dale!
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To clarify: I posted “…I have heard the recommendation NOT to install KLite or any other “rogue” codec pack. So I ignored the recommendation.” Not properly worded.
What I meant to say is I “ignored” Mercalli’s offer to install the latest update. So I did not ignore the recommendation NOT to install KLite.
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I, for one, understood what you meant, but your clarification does make it more clear. By ignoring Mercalli’s invitation to install KLite, you were wiser than me.
By the way, the first time I got the message about having an out-of-date KLite, I clicked “Ignore” and didn’t install it, but then SAL couldn’t open .mts AVCHD files from my Sony camcorder. It said a codec was missing. (Which is odd because the plug-in handles the files fine.) That’s when I went back and installed KLite.
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