I went from Vegas 10 to Vegas 12 and skipped 11. Supposedly this was a wise move. Vegas 10 had a decent stabilizer filter / plugin and I heard it was a limited version of ProDad Mercalli which did a decent job. It could be applied to clips, portions of a clip, etc. as an effect.
I heard that in Vegas 11 the stabilize plugin effect became a media fx plugin. Now it seems that it applies stabilization to your entire clip in a uniform manner, which isn't practical at all. If I use stabilizers, it's only for a limited portion of a video since the nature of stabilizers is to zoom in to some degree and lose the higher resolution of the image. You want to use this sparingly and when necessary. In addition, a stabilizer adds a huge amount of time to processing. The only way I can see to apply to an event or clip in a timeline is to create a new track and apply the stabilization to that clip.
In addition, I'm not sure how useful the controls are. When it works, it seems very close to Mercalli. But this seems to be a step back from Vegas 10. I'm tempted to dump this all in favor of the New Deshaker and seeing if I can get that going.
I heard that in Vegas 11 the stabilize plugin effect became a media fx plugin. Now it seems that it applies stabilization to your entire clip in a uniform manner, which isn't practical at all. If I use stabilizers, it's only for a limited portion of a video since the nature of stabilizers is to zoom in to some degree and lose the higher resolution of the image. You want to use this sparingly and when necessary. In addition, a stabilizer adds a huge amount of time to processing. The only way I can see to apply to an event or clip in a timeline is to create a new track and apply the stabilization to that clip.
In addition, I'm not sure how useful the controls are. When it works, it seems very close to Mercalli. But this seems to be a step back from Vegas 10. I'm tempted to dump this all in favor of the New Deshaker and seeing if I can get that going.