Mercalli 2

[Steve Rhoden]

Sorry, No preset comes with Mercalli 2, only Mercalli 1.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Maker
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

[John Rofrano]

[Scott Francis] “I am having trouble getting it to track a pan while ignoring a jumping person…it continually follows the bounce…after an hour of trying I have given up!!”

You’re using the wrong tool for the job. Mercalli is going to lock on to whatever is moving in the scene and try and stabilize it. You want to use a Point Tracker or a Planar Tracker if you have other motion in the scene that you want to be ignored.

~jr

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[Scott Francis]

Are those different programs? I am not familiar with them..Also I had been able to use Mercalli V1 for something similar, you could choose to have it pay attention to the background instead of what was in the foreground (such as shapes of the stage and so on) you could choose to harmonize a pan shot an it worked way better….hence why I thought V2 would work as well…

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[John Rofrano]

[Scott Francis] “Are those different programs? I am not familiar with them..”

Yea, a point tracker is what programs like After Effects, and Boris BCC7 Match Move uses (although BCC7 also has an optical stabilizer like Mercalli too). A planar tracker is what programs like Imagineer Systems Mocha use. Point tracker is only good when you have a point to track and doesn’t leave the frame. A planar tracker is far superior and actually recognizes shapes and planes and tracks them. Both can be used for image stabilization.

[Scott Francis] “Also I had been able to use Mercalli V1 for something similar, you could choose to have it pay attention to the background instead of what was in the foreground (such as shapes of the stage and so on) you could choose to harmonize a pan shot an it worked way better….hence why I thought V2 would work as well…”

You may be right. I never knew Mercalli v1 had this feature. How would it know what was the background and what is the foreground in a 2D image? What option enabled this in Mercalli v1?

~jr

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[Scott Francis]

https://i1.creativecow.net/u-upload.php#
This is what I would use….I guess I mis-wrote about background, but it would look at object contours and not pay as much attention to the other things…I see nothing like this in Version 2

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

Here is the screen

not quite “background” but will look at object contours

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[John Rofrano]

Yea, I don’t see anything like that in Mercalli 2. You’re right.

~jr

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