Mercalli image stabilization plugin on sale

http://www.digitaljuice.com/products/products.asp?pid=591
Great price for excellent image stabilization plugin. I use it all the time and it works very well EXCEPT:
it does not play well with dissolve transitions and will not render at all.
SOLUTION: I make a cut at the beginning and end of each dissolve transition and stabilize the material between transitions. I use this plugin to stabilize hand-held camera footage and it works very well. I have not used it extensively with other transitions as I tend to be very conservative with my scene transitions.
For $59 it can't be beat.

>Might it not be better to stabilize the entire clip and then export it back out to use in your projects?
In most cases, yes. But consider the case where only part of a continuous shot needs stabilization. If you stabilize the whole clip, the steady portion is processed unnecessarily, and motion is added that wasn't there before.
If you razor the clip, the continuity of the shot is broken at the cuts between the portions that are stabilized and those that are not. The result is not good.
SteadyMove Pro is less effective than Mercalli, and renders a lot slower. But SMP is keyframeable, while Mercalli is not. I would love to be able to animate the Mercalli settings.

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