Mercalli

[Graham Bernard]

[Roger Bansemer] “Is anyone else beside me having trouble with Mercalli stabilization “

Nope, working here in VP13/14.

You’ve just gotta a new PC. Did you download a new installer or use an old one?

* Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[Steve Rhoden]

Mercalli is quite ok Roger, its therefore some system conflict interfering with its processing!

Steve Rhoden (Cow Leader)
Film Maker & VFX Artist.
Owner of Filmex Creative Media.
Samples of my Work and Company can be seen here:
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia

[Scott Francis]

I have VERY mixed results with Mercali. There used to be a preset (this was numerous version ago) for just smoothing out video pans and so forth. I have tried and tried to make one that doesn’t follow a persons movements and have yet to have good results.
I shoot a lot of plays and so forth, so my main focus doesn’t usually just STAND and not move. Mercali always seems to follow head and hand movements which makes the stabilization worse.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Roger Bansemer]

Here’s an example of the Mercalli not working for me.
This is not that shaky a shot to begin with and Mercalli makes it worse.
Here’s a link to the 5 second video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7yHPG_1RFQ&feature=youtu.be

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Graham Bernard]

Can you Dropbox it to me?

You’ve definitely got an outta control Tilt going on. I’m sure I can do better.

* Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[Roger Bansemer]

I just installed Mercalli 3 and it works great. I can’t figure out why V4 is causing such issues.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Nigel O’neill]

[Roger Bansemer] “Mercalli stabilization making the event less stable rather than better?”

Hey Roger, I think you might be on to something here! How to make good footage look like it is handheld, Blair Witch Project style! Ha! Ha!

My system specs: Intel i7 7700k 4.20 GHz, GTX570, 16GB RAM, Gigabye Z170 HD3, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 10 x64 Pro, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Roger Bansemer]

To recap… my video event using Mercalli 4 as a Vegas plugin gives me worse than the original event results.
So I emailed Mercalli and sent them the event to see if they could trouble shoot the problem.
They were very nice and replied promptly. Here is what they said but I’m still not clear at all what I need to do.
Can anyone give me a clearer picture of what the solution is?
(by the way, when I put the same event in Mercalli 3 standalone it does a great job.
Roger
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Hello,
Thanks for your request again.
Your video is interlaced. Please use the correct project setting in Vegas, depended of your video properties.
Then analyse/stabilize your video again.
You received much better results with progressive video material with Mercalli v4.
Please check.
with kind regards
Uwe Wenz
Customer Support Manager

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com