[MacDV] Stabilize video

[Paul Moortgat]

Alex,

I got an e-mail from them:
 >>
Hello Paul,

thank you for your interest in iStabilize!

I agree that a plug in, let it be for FCP, AE or others, would be more
handy. The problem is that a "good" video stabilizer should "know" the
motion over the large part of a movie. For this reason, stabilizing with
iStabilize is divided into two parts - motion tracking and 
stabilization.
Unfortunately, it seems this division is not possible for plug-ins in
composition software.
However, I hope to provide a solution as plug-in within the next months.
This solution will probably be split into two parts: iStabilize for 
motion
tracking and a plug-in video filter for FCP. So, if you purchase 
iStabilize
now, you can still upgrade later.

Best regards,
Eberhard Ammelt - Pixlock
<<
Paul Moortgat

On 21 Feb 2005, at 16:10, Alex wrote:

> 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
>>
>
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