[MacDV] Stabilize video

[Alex]

Hi Paul

I use FCP extensively and all my shots were assembled in FCP
The iStabalize program works as a standalone app.
I opened the footage with istabalize, these were simply sitting in a 
capture scratch folder for the project.
With a minimum of setup I stabilized several video pieces, saving them 
as separate files.
These files were then imported into FCP and replaced the original ones.

As the program uses the QuickTime engine for opening and saving files 
it can also use any of QuickTime's import / export settings.
But that is all in the background, all you use is istabilize.
Its not quite as elegant as it would be as a plugin for FCP, but does 
offer its power into the workflow of any other app's, being standalone.
This a very small price to pay in usability and some may argue that it 
is in the apps favor, depending on how they work.

either way it cost me $69 or £36 or €53 depending where you are.
It stabilized footage in 6 minutes beautifully, that the FCP stabilize 
plugin took 23 minutes to render and did a worse job!

For this type of video filter it does a damm fine job at a damm fine 
price.

Alex

On 21 Feb 2005, at 08:31, Paul Moortgat wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> Did you use FCP also?  You imported the video into QT right? And then?
>
> Paul Moortgat
>