Mercalli V2

Answer:

The launch of Mercalli V2 in CS6 is different to CS 5.x

When you install Mercalli, the Premiereplug-in is automatically installed. In Premiere, you can find the plug-in in the video effects:

This is what you do:
1. Go to the video filtersand click the proDADdirectory to open it.
2. Click the item Mercalli 2.0 UI and drag it onto the required clip in the timeline.

3. Go to the Effect Controls/Mercalli 2.0 UIand click the Setupbutton.

Answer:

After having installed the Mercalli 2.0 Plugin for Mac (for example Final Cut Pro), activate Mercalli 2.0 as a Plugin by using the UnlockMercalli program which you find in Programs/proDAD/Mercalli 2.0. As soon as the program starts, you enter the serial number and click Unlock. At this stage, Mercalli 2.0 should be correctly installed as a Plugin on your Mac.

If you still see 2 diagonal lines (X) in the preview, the installation didn’t work out. In this case, please contact our support via customerservice@prodad.com. You will soon receive a solution to the problem via email.

Answer:

After installing the Mercalli V2 Pro Demo-version as Studio Plugin, the software will be shown within Studio 14 (including the Pinnacle watermark). Now you can test Mercalli V2 Pro.

If you like Mercalli V2 and if you want to buy it, please go to the proDAD online shop (www.prodad.com)

Note: For the time being, Mercalli 2 is not available in the Pinnacle Online shop.

After buying the Plugin in the proDAD online shop and installing it on your system, it will be automatically activated and the Pinnacle watermark will no longer be seen.

Answer:

Reason:When the option "Full preview quality" (in the "Video and Audio Preferences" settings dialog) is disabled in Pinnacle Studio, the video analysis in Mercalli is carried out at a lower resolution and this affects the quality of the stabilization.Even when the project has been completed in Pinnacle Studio, the quality of the scenes stabilized with Mercalli remains low. 

Solution:Select the option "Full preview quality" (in the "Video and Audio Preferences" settings dialog) before analysing your video scene in the Mercalli timeline.

If you have already analysed the video scene with Mercalli, with the option "Full preview quality" disabled in Pinnacle Studio, follow these steps: Remove Mercalli from the timeline in your video, select the option "Full preview quality" in the "Video and Audio Preferences" settings dialog, and drag Mercalli onto the video scene again.Now analyse the video once more with Mercalli.

Answer:

For these editing solutions please always use the  32bit Version of the Mercalli V2 Plugins because these NLEs are 32bit Versions, tough they´re in use on Windows 7 64 Bit systems.

Answer:

Problem: The Mediaplayer playback of a Mercalli-created videofile is always 4:3 although the original footage was 16:9.

Solution: Mercalli also offer to generate WMV files for export, those generated files also Media Player playback correctly as 16:9 .

Note: It´s obligatory that the video has been identified as 16:9 format video during import in Mercalli.

Answer:

Due to some limitations of Premiere´s Plugin-Interface please avoid following items:

1. Don´t use slow / fast motion effects for clips which needs to be processed by Mercalli.
2. If the clip is processed also by other effects, please make sure that Mercalli is always on top of the stack so it´s the first process.
3. Don´t use Transitions in videos which needs to be stabilized