[Wayne Waag]

[Gary Thomas]

If you’re interested in trying out this method, you will need to have the following installed: (1) Debugmode Frameserver https://www.debugmode.com/frameserver/ (2) Virtualdub. I’m still using the 32 bit V 1.9.11, although a new version is available. https://www.videohelp.com/software/Virtualdub and (3) Deshaker 3.1 https://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm Since I already had these installed and use them frequently, at least the Frameserver and Virtudaldub, it was pretty easy.

The first step would be to install these and make sure you know how to frameserve to Virtualdub. Deshaker is a Virtualdub video filter used for for image stabilization. It used to be my preferred means of image stabilization for quite awhile and still offers advantages over the more popular Mercalli plug-ins, including the fact that it is freeware and doesn’t cost hundreds of $. Essentially, Deshaker like Mercalli is a two pass process. During the first pass, motion changes within the video clip are calculated. On the second pass, these motion changes are applied to the video clip in an attempt to make the video clip more stable.

Now to the nitty gritty. In order to apply the motion of one video clip (clip 1) to another video clip (clip 2), the first requirement is that the two clips are the same length. Conceptually, it’s like copy and paste–copy the motion from clip 1 and paste that motion on to clip 2. To do this the following steps are required. (1) For clip 1, frameserve to Virtudaldub, apply the Deshaker filter, and run the pass one analysis. Close Virtualdub, return to Vegas and stop the frameserver. (2) Go to clip 2, frameserve to Virtualdub, apply the Deshaker filter, and this time select Pass 2. Choose your compression codec and then save. That’s it–pretty simple. I might add that, within Virtualdub, you can save your configuration settings (filter, compression, etc.) and simply “load” them. E.g. Deshaker Pass 1, Deshaker Pass 2, etc. Makes it a lot quicker than having to manually add the filter, select the compression codec, etc. each time.

If you want to change the motion, like I did in the last clip of the demo, you will need to use Excel. From the Filter:Deshaker window in Virtualdub, open the Deshaker.log file, copy and paste into Excel. Then change the X,Y,Z values however you like, copy, and replace the Deshaker.log values with the new ones. Again, pretty simple. The documentation in the Deshaker website is pretty good in describing the various parameters in both the Deshaker window and the log file contents.

If you want to try this approach and run into problems, just post back. Good luck.

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[Wayne Waag]

[Eugene]

The timeline shots are very good. On your first one–the timeline–it would appear that you have some type of track motion effect applied to your Pan/Zoom track, Track 6. From the screenshot, we can’t tell exactly what has been applied. Click on the track motion icon and select default. In fact you have some type of track motion effect applied on your other tracks as well. Intentional? If not, I’d reset to default for those tracks as well.

Since you copied the image from an online source, you obviously can’t re-scan it. During the initial scanning, someone didn’t use the descreen option found on scanning applications that reduces the checkerboard appearance found in newspaper or magazine sources. In any case, the image itself is not the problem. As John just posted, there should be no flickering. My bet is that you’ve inadvertently applied some track motion effect.

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[Wayne Waag]

Something is really screwy. By all rights, if there are problems with the image, the pan/crop zoom should look better than track zoom. By chance have you inadvertently applied both pan/crop and track zoom at the same time? Probably not, but in any case, a screen shot of your timeline would be most useful as well as a shot of your pan/crop Video Fx window. Also your project settings and the pixel dimensions of your image.

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[Wayne Waag]

I am very confused.

So am I. Having read your post a number of times, I’m not really sure what your problem is. I watched the YT video you created and it seemed fine. You mention no music. Did you want music?

I followed advise from this video and only selected to hear the audio on one channel instead of both:

I must admit that I didn’t watch this 11 min video, so I’m not sure where this fits in.

It only starts doing this after a couple of hours and does not work on both desktop and mobile.

Again, you have to be more explicit about your problem.

Once we have some better idea of what your problem is, one thing that usually helps is a screen shot of your timeline including your project, media, and render settings.

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[Wayne Waag]

Even the older versions will work reasonably well if you simply break a long recording session into smaller segments making sure that the splits occur when there is relative silence.

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[Wayne Waag]

I thought that Pluraleyes will align the audio but it will not keep it in sync over time.

As I recall when it was released, the most recent version (3.5) of Pluraleyes “claims” it will do this, although I didn’t upgrade. I have version 3.0 but still use the original v2.0 that is a plug-in for Vegas.

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[Wayne Waag]

Try this. Just click on the Touch button and see if the mute button pops back.

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[Wayne Waag]

Looks like you double-posted. See reply to first request.

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[Wayne Waag]

You may have the Ignore Event Grouping button on the bottom task bar depressed. It’s the last one on the right. Alternatively, you can enter Ctrl-Shitf-U to see if your problem goes away.

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[Wayne Waag]

A screen shot showing “good” portions on both sides of the “dead zone” might be helpful.

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