ProDAD - FAQ - Mercalli - English

• Interesting Background knowledge about video stabilisation with Mercalli
  How does Mercalli stabilise my videoclips?
  How can I remove undesired shakes in Mercalli (more efficient)?
  
  
• Warning Display for too strong moves
  The right bargraph shows a red bar. What does it mean?
  
  
• The stabilised video is intensive scaled down and the borders are blurred
  After applying Mercalli the video has been reduced extremely.
  In addition the borders are very large and shown as blurred areas.
  How can this be avoided?
  
  
• Mercalli - Important information for Premiere Pro 2.0 and Elements 2/3
  Adobe Premiere 2.0 and the technichal similar "Elements" versions doesn´t pass on several video format relating informations to Plugins, which may give incorrect results with Mercalli. Thus proDAD modified Mercalli from version 1.0.8 with a workaround. Now this Premiere plugin interface limitation can be solved by users intervention defining the video-format in a new menu manually.
  
  
• Mercalli - Important information for Liquid / Studio and NTSC
  The plugin interface of Liquid 7.x / Studio 12.x doesn´t pass on several video format relating informations to Plugins, which may give incorrect results with Mercalli. Thus proDAD modified Mercalli from version 1.0.8 with a workaround. Now this Liquig plugin interface limitation can be solved by users intervention defining the video-format in a new menu manually.
  
  
• Mercalli - Standalone Version?
  I can´t find my editing solution in the list of supported NLE host applications.
  Therefore I hope for a kind of standalone version of Mercalli.
  Will this ever be available?
  
  
• Mercalli available for ULEAD Mediastudio ?
  Is there a Mercalli version for Ulead Mediastudio available - or will this ever be?
  
  
• Mercalli - installation of the manual only?
  In spite of multiple installation trys I can´t find the program. In the windows start-menu under "all programs" and "proDAD" I can find the manual only. Where to locate the program?
  
  
• "The Videoanalysis must be executed again" appears in the video!
  "The Videoanalysis must be executed again" appears in the video preview.
  How to start the "Videoanalysis" ?
  
  
• How to create an effect template in EDIUS with proDAD effects
  How can an effect setting of Adorage, Heroglyph, Vitascene or Mercalli being created in EDIUS directly?
  The target should be a specific proDAD effect based setting, ready to be used on one mouseclick within the EDIUS effects library.
  
  

Pinnacle Studio

• Error #2/#3 in Liquid / Studio
  During the analysis Liquid/Studio shows a 'V' and Mercalli reports error #3.