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Most efficient way to apply Mercalli to tons of clips in a sequence with transitions?
I’ve got 30 five second clips. All of them need Mercalli. I want the final video to be these five second clips together in a sequence with a transition between each one and each one having been run through Mercalli.
I’ve tried:
1. Put clips in sequence and apply default transition to all. I select everything and apply Mercalli effect. Doesn’t work. Each separate clip requires Mercalli to run through it, meaning I have to press “ok” 30 times as Mercalli moves from clip to clip, and at the end I get a “Analysis must be run again” error for each clip.
2. Put clips in sequence and apply default transition to all. I then nest the whole entire sequence and run Mercalli. I don’t get the Analysis must be run again error, and the motion is smooth, but oftentimes the transitions get jumpy.
I want to put a bunch of clips together, run Mercalli on them, all in one go (without having to press OK one time for each clip), then apply transitions to those stabilized clips.
How do I do this?
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I have never used Mercalli, but it sounds like you want to have all your clips side by side and cross dissolved, then add the Mercalli Effect to them in one foul swoop?
Does it work if you make all the clips with transitions and then make that sequence a nest in another sequence. Finally adding Mercalli to the nest sequence which would be considered as one long clip…
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Hmmm….
As Mercalli likely needs to analyze:
Shot by Shot
and needs to see handles for analysis prior to adding transitions….Normally I tell people to trim out the shots to include the handles
Nest the shot
step into the nest
apply mercalli and analzye
On the parent timeline, trim back and add transistions.this will take care of the transitions, but not the batching….
I don’t see, short of a 3rd party macro recorder, how you could automate this….
Alex
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I’d be pretty impressed if Mercalli could planar track across dissolves of differnt shots…
Alex
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I’m new to video so I’m a little confused:
“Normally I tell people to trim out the shots to include the handles
Nest the shot
step into the nest
apply mercalli and analzye
On the parent timeline, trim back and add transistions.”Why do I need to nest a single clip? So for my 30 clips, nest the first one, step into it, apply mercalli, then add the transitions.
I simply select all the clips, apply Mercalli, click OK 30 times, and so those 30 clips have now all been stabilized one by one, right? And then I apply transitions.
I just hate having to click 30 times.
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The reason why it jumps in transitions is because when you add 2 clips to the timeline and add a transition…
Mercali likely defines it’s analysis of the motion based on the explicitly exposed frames of the clip in the sequence, not the handle frames implicitly exposed in the transition frames.
So if you nest the individual clip and trim it out in the nest to include the handle frames which will be used in the motion analysis, mercali will smooth the whole event….including the transistion frames.
Then on the main timeline when you add the transition, you will be adding it to frames that have already been smoothed.
It does not solve your problem with batching, but it does help you understand the behavior of the plug-in.
As far as the jumps, I don’t know if it’s a Mercali code issue or a limitation of the PPro API to third party development…..but that’s what’s causing it…and that’s how you get around it…
hope that helps.
Alex
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Hi Victor. Do you solve, how to do this?
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