Operation Manual

Further tips and recommendations

Advice on filming for even better results

You can already do a lot when filming to help achieve steady footage. Bear the following points in

mind:

• To help rolling shutter compensation when shooting from a vehicle or with a moving camera,

do not start filming when already moving (but have the camera stationary at the start and end

of the shot if possible).

•

Keep the exposure time as short as possible so as to reduce blurring effects between individual

frames due to fast movements.

•

Extreme differences in speed can have less effect as a result of different depths in the shot's

perspective.

•

When tracking a moving object, seek to minimize the prominence of stationary objects darting

through the shot.

•

Filming with a smudged lens or through a dirty window may lead to misinterpretations in the

analysis and stabilizations errors.

•

Atmospheric effects such as heat shimmer may confuse the Rolling-Shutter Compensation.

Solving import/export problems

If you encounter problems loading or exporting video material, these may be caused by

DirectShow or codecs.

If this is the case, Mercalli does not convert the video data since it does not contain a converter

function and no such function is planned.

In the vast majority of cases, a solution can be found using one of the various free packages that

are available for solving codec problems.

Only licensed codecs may be used, but no program-specific codecs, such as those contained in

Adobe Premiere.

The video file cannot be opened.

The video codec on your system is passing the data to Mercalli incorrectly and, as a result, the

loading process cannot be successfully completed. A possible remedy is to install an alternative

video codec, such as those listed here:

1. First install this package*

http://www.prodad.de/support/files/MatroskaSplitter-32bit.exe

2. Then install this package*

http://www.prodad.de/support/files/ffdshow-32bit-sse.exe

3. or this package*

http://www.prodad.de/support/files/K-Lite_CodecPack.exe

Then try loading the video into Mercalli again.