Stabilization Process Failed

GDGerlach344

When I try to stabilize a video clip, Video Pad appears to process the video but in the end I get this message: "Stabiliztion Process Failed". Does anyone know what may be causing this? I'm using Video Pad on a computer running Windows 7 Professional.

borate

What version of VP is running?

Is the PC's video driver up to date?

http://geforce.com/drivers (NVidia)

Or visit AMD or Intel, if they are the supplier of your video driver.

GDGerlach344

I updated my video driver and still getting the error message. I'm using VideoPad version 3.51.

borate

Can you upload this clip to a server and link it here, so others can test it?

GDGerlach344

Try right clicking and saving this link. It's a very short clip that really dosen't need deshaking but it causes the error message. It's staight out of a GoPro Hero 3 Black:

http://gerlachproduc...o-test/test.mp4

borate

Worked fine here, using VP 3.55, which is available at... http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/

This may be a machine-specific problem. Your PC specs might be helpful: RAM, CPU, GPU, etc.

GDGerlach344

I installed VP 3.55 and now stabilization is working. But I was wondering if there was any way to trim a video clip and then only stabilize that portion of the clip. For example, if I'm only going to be using 5 seconds of a 70 second shot, I'd like to stablize only the needed 5 seconds to save a bunch of time. I understand I could trim a clip, export it out, load it back in and then stabilize it that way but it sure would be a better workflow if we could stabilize a clip after we trim it. Any way to do that?

borate

You have described the only alternative that I have come across, other than first trimming the clip in another program.

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You can't stabilize a part of a clip without doing the whole clip, but a step towards what you want is:

Put your clip onto the sequence line, edit it in with any other clips that make up your video (you don't have to do this on just the clip) In this way you will probably have trimmed down the clip you want to stabilise with the rest of your video.

Either way, delete any bits not required and close any gaps.

Now place the whole time line (or bit you do want if you are working on just the clip) into the sequence bin by clicking the Plus sign in the prompt Sequence 1 X +" This will clear your timeline line and place it in the media list Sequence bin.

Open the Video media list and right click the original clip and stabilize it.

When complete follow the prompt to replace the original clip with the stabilized version.

Return to the media list Sequence bin and add your saved sequence to the empty timeline.

Your edited section will now be stabilized but the rest of the video will not be.

Note that anything saved as a sequence will behave as a single clip now once back on the timeline.

Nat