@Russ Croucher
As I mentioned in a previous topic , I do something more time saving:
1) Before starting editing , I start stabilizing all videos with a stand alone stabilizer (i prefer ffmpeg its a gnu , free) . Stabilized files get a new name / folder. I prefer ffmpeg than the build in deshaker . I prefer ffmpeg even over Mercalli 4 . For some reason Videopad use pretty old version of Deshake (2.4) . FFmpeg have less borders and better results from both of them (Deshaker 2.4 / Mercalli 4) .
2) At the same time or later or next day or whenever I want I start editing the whole project .
3) If I chose to replace some sections with stabilized ones , I isolate them in a separate clip , and I chose 'Replace Clip File' and I replace them whith the stabilized ones. If the stabilized files are not ready yet I save the project and continue replacing files later or tomorrow ...
4) (Optionally) FFmpeg batch files can be structured like a watchfolder so they can be run in a separate machine in my LAN , so I got 0% CPU consumption in my PC during stabilization (when they run from another PC) .
Here are some batch script I use:
<span>@ECHO OFF
CLS
MD Videos
for %%a in (videos\*.*) do (
DEL transforms.trf
ffmpeg -i "%%a" -vf vidstabdetect -f null -
ffmpeg -i "%%a" -vf vidstabtransform=smoothing=50:crop=keep:invert=0:relative=0:zoom=0:optzoom=2:zoomspeed=0.2:interpol=bilinear:tripod=0 -map 0 -c:v libx264 -preset fast -crf 9 -c:a aac -b:a 192k "videos\%%~na-DONE.mp4"
DEL transforms.trf
)
echo
echo
echo "------>>>>>>>>>> J O B I S N O W C O M P L E T E <<<<<<<<<<------"
echo
PAUSE
EXIT</span>
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ffqueue gui