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Alternative stabilizers for Premiere Pro CS6?
Are there any other stabilizers I can use with Premiere Pro CS6? The Warp Stabilizer is just obnoxiously slow and computationally intensive. I thought it would take advantage of the Mercury engine but apparently not, as I can hear my CPU fan go into overdrive when I apply it, and it chokes my machine.
So are there any other, hopefully faster, alternatives I can use in Premiere Pro? Right now I’m working on a project that’s 1 hour and 40 minutes long, and it’s just death. Thanks for any info on this.
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Thanks for your reply. I’m on a Windows workstation, so Mercalli would be my alternative. Have you tried any of these, and if so, do they seem faster than the Warp Stabilizer? Thanks.
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I personally have not tried these, though I have heard good things about both. Mercalli is supposed to be faster, though by how much I can’t say. Keep in mind that no matter what, stabilizing will require processing and interpreting data frame by frame. There is only so much one can do to speed it up.
What codec are the clips you are trying to stabilize? The less compressed they are, the better and faster your results will be.
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I have been using Mercalli for last few years. I find it amazingly good at what it does. Currently using version 3 of it. I just got an email from Prodad a few days ago which said v4 is coming…
“IT’S COMING:
The biggest thing to happen to video stabilization in a decade!The new Mercalli V4 is coming SOON!
The wait is almost over, the all-new Mercalli is coming and the big news is that it’s much more than a stabilizer. How much more? Keep your eyes open for the next proDAD eNews, which will give you all the facts and special introductory & upgrade prices for Mercalli V4. Get ready for total video perfection!
”Never successfully used the warp stabiliser yet becasue just got CC2014 recently and when I tried it on old projects which I had successfully stabilised with Mercalli I just got all sorts of errors about can’t stabilise if clip is not same res as timeline or can’t stabilise because I had some other effect on it so it seems to be a lot more limiiting than Mercalli plugin….
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Although obviously you want a good-quality stabilization, my primary concern is SPEED. The warp stabilizer is painfully slow, and chokes my system in the process. I’ll have to test out their demo to see if it’s any better. Unfortunately the new version doesn’t work as a plug-in, so it wouldn’t help me on my present project, which has multiple video and audio sync’d up.
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