[Darin Derstine]

I should have said that I already can successfully blur the license plates out. I’m trying to avoid doing all that handwork.

The movement of my footage and the Mpeg2 compression blurs it enough on the DVD when the footage is playing, the only thing is when paused, the freeze frame is sharp and the license plate can be read.

I’ve noticed on some consumer DVDs I have with similiar footage (shot with Red camera), when the DVD is paused, it shows a blended image of the 2 frames, instead of a clear freeze frame. This blended still frame is what I’m trying to achieve. I am applying a de-interlace in compressor, because when I don’t do this, I get horizontal interlaced scan lines showing on horizontal movement in the footage.

Alternatively, a solution might be with a filter that can affectively simulate a slower shutter speed e.g. 1/30 or 1/60th of a second (since my footage was shot at 1/500th of a second).

thanks for any help.

[Darin Derstine]

I do have the lock and Load plug-in also, and have tried it, but before starting this next project that will need a lot of stabilization, I wanted to compare the Mercalli, as it’s gotten such great positive reviews.

[Darin Derstine]

I have the demo version of the Mercalli v2 FCP plugin also installed, and always experience a bug that the Analysis window crashes after about 10 seconds. I’ve googled and confirmed that others have experienced the issue. It’s great to hear you actually got it to work.

I really need to use this for a project. Could you give your quick specs and what type of video files you are applying it to.

Huge thanks!