Mercalli how-to guide?

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Mercalli how-to guide?

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Can anyone point me to a good guide for using using Mercalli v4? I'm looking for tips and best practices. I've seen the PDF guide that ProDAD puts out but, I think that's geared more towards their stand alone version of the program and not using Mercalli within VideoStudio.

So far I've only been playing with Mercalli for a couple of days and I have a lot of questions:
  • How can I kick off the Analyze process across all of the clips in the timeline? Having to come back to the computer every hour or two just to press the Analyze button on the next clip is a real time-waster.
  • What do the different options mean?
  • Some of my video is coming from a Galaxy Note 10 at 1080p, with it's own built-in image stabilization software built in. Results of applying Mercalli on top of that have not been great. Is having stabilization at multiple stages something to always avoid or, do I just need to find the right settings?
  • I've tried VideoStudio on two Workstation laptops: (1) a Lenovo P50s, with Core i7 / 16GB / NVIDIA Quadro M500M ) and (2) a Lenovo P 52, with Core i9 / 32 GB / NVIDIA Quadro P3200 Max-Q. In both cases, the Analyze function of Mercalli feels very slow. I've tried launching VideoStudio by using the "run with high performance NVIDIA processor" option (see screenshot). However, when I look at the Task Manager, I see that VS is only using "GPU 0", which I understand to mean the built-in Intel graphics instead of the NVIDIA GPU. How do I get VS and Mercalli to use the GPU?
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Re: Mercalli how-to guide?

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Hi

From the Welcome screen – Tutorials I found one relating to Stabilize Video which took me here
https://learn.corel.com/tutorials/remov ... -ultimate/

Also from Mercalli Customise the Help ? mark found more details
I think it may relate to the purchased version and not the plugin that comes with Video Studio so there may be some differences
I’m sure there will be more info on YouTube
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I have the standalone versions of Mecalli 4 and Mercalli 5, and whilst there are considerable differences in the layout, the version 4 included with VS can do much the same as the standalones
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Re: Mercalli how-to guide?

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lata wrote:From the Welcome screen – Tutorials I found one relating to Stabilize Video which took me here https://learn.corel.com/tutorials/remov ... -ultimate/
This video is for Mercalli v2 and not v4 that the OP asked about.
justincaseme3 wrote:Can anyone point me to a good guide for using using Mercalli v4?
The user manual for the proDAD Mercalli V4 Plugin, including Corel Video Studio, is available at https://www.prodad.com/_ws/mediabase/_t ... 0V4_en.pdf

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