I didn't know VP10 has stabilization; mine doesn't.

Old,
"New Features in Version 10.0: ---Image stabilization for video clips.
See Tools > Video > Stabilize Media.

Keep in mind that you have other options. Many of us use DeShaker for stabilization. Free, extremely sophisticated, works from within Vegas, great output. Not much of a hassle to set up.

You are right! Good to know! I was looking under FX and couldn't find it. Anyway, on my system it doesn't preview the stabilization in VP10e or it doesn't really work despite it has more options. In VP11 and 12, with less options it does at least "something" but it is still not very good.

@ riredale - and directions you know of for setting deshaker up through vegas?

thanks

Start here.

Note the plug-in was 32 bit only as of this link. Maybe, still the case.

I recently spent four hours stabilizing with SVP 12 and I found the result not good. Threw the BD-R away.

Currently trying SVP 10 stabilize since I still have it on a machine.

Update:

I used Mediainfo to inspect the files in the source folder. Apparently, the shooter changed the shooting mode to save SD card space.

I found:

1920x1080-29.97i 21.3 mbps
1440x1080-29.97i 4.93 mbps
720x480-29.97i 8.35 mbps

in the same camera folder.
I'm going to have to revisit SVP 12 since the properties of the video should be matched to get a good result with the stabilize, I suspect...

thanks john - much appreciated...

unfortunately i don't have any 32bit vegas installed, nor am likely to in the future.

would be happy to try when / if it makes it to 64bit though.

OH!!!!

http://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm#version%20history

I use deshaker all the time with my 64 bit system. Although I have Mercalli 2.0, I much prefer Deshaker because of the control options and the fact that I can select events on the timeline, apply it to each one in a batch fashion. With Mercalli, you have to manually process each event.

There are two ways you can do this. First, you can frameserve out of Vegas, open the file in VirtualDub, and apply deshaker. Note that this is a two step process. You first do the analysis and then save the "deshaked" file using whatever codec you choose. Although tedious, this approach gives you the greatest control.

Second, John Meyer wrote an excellent script some time ago. I am using a modified version of his original script that permits usage of Deshaker 3.0. Getting it set up on your system is probably not for the faint-hearted since you'll have to do script changes, but once accomplished, it works very well. For each event, the "deshaked" version is added as a take.

Good luck

wwaag

What I do in my mulitcam projects is to first get all the different camera footage to look equal by applying any FX I need on a media level. This way I don't have to go thru every event and do it.