Dylan Couper
May 11th, 2008, 09:47 PM
Just bought and installed Mercalli, running Vegas 7. See my thoughts on the purchase process in another thread.
For now, my reviews... mixed at best.
* Bad The registration is a pain in the butt, and not instant.
* Good It plugs into Vegas instantly
* Bad The manual is... not good. Don't expect any real help. Don't expect any details on what functions are better at doing things than others. Trial and error is your friend... which it shouldn't be.
* Bad Drag the FX onto your clip. Then click the track AGAIN before rendering it. Why the second click? Just to piss Dylan off.
* Good Works FAST.
* Good Stabilization works well, and offers many different types of stabilization options.
* Bad Rendered image is noticibly softer. OTOH, I'd rather have a soft image than a shaky image.
Questions:
Does anyone know where I can find specific details on how each mode works?
Does anyone have a solution to the image softness/deterioration? I've used it with a locked down perfectly still image where no cropping occurs... and it still softens it. I'm not talking about the dynamic images, but the actual picture.
That's it for now.
Overall impressions. It isn't perfect, but it'll bail you out of bad handheld video.
For now, my reviews... mixed at best.
* Bad The registration is a pain in the butt, and not instant.
* Good It plugs into Vegas instantly
* Bad The manual is... not good. Don't expect any real help. Don't expect any details on what functions are better at doing things than others. Trial and error is your friend... which it shouldn't be.
* Bad Drag the FX onto your clip. Then click the track AGAIN before rendering it. Why the second click? Just to piss Dylan off.
* Good Works FAST.
* Good Stabilization works well, and offers many different types of stabilization options.
* Bad Rendered image is noticibly softer. OTOH, I'd rather have a soft image than a shaky image.
Questions:
Does anyone know where I can find specific details on how each mode works?
Does anyone have a solution to the image softness/deterioration? I've used it with a locked down perfectly still image where no cropping occurs... and it still softens it. I'm not talking about the dynamic images, but the actual picture.
That's it for now.
Overall impressions. It isn't perfect, but it'll bail you out of bad handheld video.