Hi RAD -

What do mean by stabilise? Are you talking about fixing camera shake or something else?

If that's what you mean, I think I'd first produce the AVI files to your preferred format, using a similar profile for resolution & bitrate... then stabilise the produced file & re-produce to the exact same format/profile. Depending on your PC, there's quite a load in (a) applying effect like stabilising & (b) re-rendering long files.

That's just what I'd do - not saying it's the way to do it.

Cheers - Tony
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Yep I need to reduce camra shake
the AVI came via studio 9 & movibox usb

Tks

It may be worth importing a clip & using PD11's "Content Aware Editing" to analyse it for you. I can't advise you on that because my PD stops working every time I have attempted to use it! I use a dedicated video stabiliser when I need it, anyway. Just right click on the clip in the timeline & you'll see it there.

Alternatively, just go to Fix/Enhance > Stabilzer to test what level you want to apply.

Cheers - Tony




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sorry can't find "contents aware Editing"
My Pd11 just opens what I chose and then I right click it and view properties to tell me its codex..... Beautifull
perhaps I should tell you where I at: Hnc Eletronics Born 1933 have
pc1Ig31 Win7,64bit, Quad cpu@2.4,4 gig mem,Gf 8600
pc2Ig41 win7,64bit, dual cpu@3.6,4gig mem , onboard
I need to know what PD11's main engin is? AVI/ MKV/or m2ts then I hope I'll know how to work with it

Attached image should help...
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Tks Tony
I'm not cleaver enough to get your download
maybe cause I have my senior moments after 6 Pm

Hey Tks, all you have to do is click on the word download. At least that works for me. W10 on Dell Desktop, 64 bit, 32GB RAM, Intel(R)Core(TM) I5- 3350P CPU, 3.10 Ghz, 1 TB HD, free space - 200 GB

ok so I have a >png in my downloads
but what do i open it with??
all I get is a screen looking like a vodeo overlaid with non useable white screen choises ithink from Acdsee

no even stoping acdsee loking at videos all i can get is a series of photos from beach1.png

so i give up I'll have to learn the hard way as it has allways been with this ripoff pc world

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Hi RAD, Got your PM. Couple of things that may help with the understanding of how PD works:

1) PD does not use any intermediate file formats. Eg it does not first convert DV-AVI into an "Intermediate Format" (eg Uncompressed Video) then Into the Production format (eg M2TS, MKV etc) during the editing process. What it does do (excluding when using SVRT) is during the "Produce" phase is it wll be rendering all the input streams together into a single uncompressed (i guess RGB) video stream that is then re-comressed on the fly to your format of choice (eg AVC 264 / MPEG-2 etc) in your container of choice (eg M2TS, MKV, BD Disk etc).

2) My very first PD project was also a batch DV-AVI conversion to AVC 264. I had two batches to process. One for 4:3 Material and one for the anamporphic 16:9 material. All my DV-AVI clips were already as I wanted them so I then just mass batch converted them in PD. I'm sure others will advise how to add effects like Stabilisation to the Batch process but I would recomend only do the conversion in one pass to reduce any Multi Generation Loss if you do it in too passes (eg as per Point 1). Looks great and I've never needed to go back to the original DV-AVI material.

Thanks
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Quote: no even stoping acdsee loking at videos all i can get is a series of photos from beach1.png
so i give up I'll have to learn the hard way as it has allways been with this ripoff pc world
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I do not know if I understand right, if you add the video in the timeline, right click with the mouse, and do not see the option (Edit Using Contet Aware editing ...) it is not available in the trial version.
This tool analyzes the video and shows a graph where improvements need to apply, including stabilizing video.
I do not like to use this feature, here takes much doing analize.
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Ynotfish Hi, I took the liberty of posting your picture, because it seems
RADenham, having trouble with this download on your PC
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Ah So Right click on time line not in library
Thanks playsound
and Thanks Jmone What with reading your 24fps thread
I Think I'm getting some understanding
but will have to find the batch util you mention

Tks

Content aware I found that before xmas but forgot; so
in library, point to clip and 2 choises descend scene detect
and content aware
I used Fix/enhance/ stabilizer to produce a"stabilized"folder
from my "first cuts" folder
I gees I have 3 way to the same end please tell me if I used the wrong path
It's great to have this help Thank you all