Stabilizing Shaky Rock Concert Footage

I have a nightmare of a job but I want to spend as much time as it takes to really make this look good.
I have this footage of a rock concert, but its real shakey as the cam was handheld and recorded in HDV. I've got some nice smooth cams out of that node, but this stuff drives Shake bonkers with way too much mess ups. The whole screen moving 50% with each flash. Big concert with tons of flashes, strobing lighting effects and handheld shaky footage.
I am guessing there is a way to do this using the STABILIZE node and adjusting the many parameters for tracking 2 or 4 points. And then keyframing frame by frame when the tracker loses its tracking points which it does every few frames. So I need to keyframe manually much of the footage. I probably have up to 20 minutes of video that I'd like to do, maybe more.
Anyway, know of a consultant in NYC or Long Island that I could sit down with for maybe 2 hours an learn the exact process. I can't seem to figure it out on my own. I think with 2 hours of help, I might be able to learn to do it and make this video awesome.
I for sure need a total pro in stabilizing the most difficult kinds of video. If anyone can help me, thanks!

You are correct. I am finding the best footage to correct and hope to reduce it down to 10 minutes. I just spent 5 hours doing and by trial and error I think I found the best way for my footage.
I use the stabilize node. And I track the nose or forehead and keep that as the center of my tracking. When that is finished, I add a MOVE 2D node and then gently let the singers head shift a bit to the left or right of the frame over many frames and this way I won't have to zoom in as much. I find a nice medium and put a few keyframes in.
I am hoping I can complete about 15 seconds of footage for every 15 minutes or about 1 minute per hour. If this is true, I can do the whole job in about 10 hours of work to stabilize 10 minutes of video. Not terrible considering. Tomorrow I will test to see if my expectations meet with reality. And maybe after a few hours I'l get faster and better at it.
It would be awesome to be able to do 2 minutes of footage per hour. That's my hope once I get good. I could certainly find 20-30 minutes of footage to stabilize.
Anyway, I just did a 17 second clip tonight and experimented with it for hours and got it good. I think I can now apply that and do it far faster now that I know how to use the tools better. Let me know what you think of this solution.

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    And if I need a faster system, what area of my system would I need to improve. Ideally I want to be able to edit 16 stream in real time without any slowdown in the sound and video drop outs. I need to make these cuts precisely as I feel the flow of the music and see all streams together. Soon I will do this with HDV footage as well.
    Any help would be VERY much appreciated. Thanks-
    Dual 2.5 Ghz PowerPC G5   Mac OS X (10.4.1)  

    What displays are connected to the 6800?
    If it's driving two displays, I think it divides its onboard RAM between the two (128/128). I read some time ago that ATI had released a little app that allowed you to turn off the second display connector on its cards, so all of the RAM would be funneled to the main display. I don't know if there's a way to do that with the nVidia card.
    But if there is, that might help. IOW, you'd have to work on a single display, but all 256MB of RAM would be available to it. That might help, if it's even possible.
    If you pare down the files on your media drive, so that it's less than 60% full, with all files living in the first 60% of the platters (the outer and middle tracks), that would help. To do that, you'd trash enough files to get down to 60% full then copy them all to another volume, wipe the original media volume, then move the files back.
    Make sure External Devices is set to None, so the G5 doesn't have to push video out the FW port.
    Repair Premissions, quit all unneeded apps and processes, and make sure your boot volume isn't more than 60% full. YOu could also set RT Extreme Display Quality to Low. Leave Frame Rate to Full, though, or FCP will intentional drop frames to maintain real-time playback.
    Others may have additional suggestions, but if none of our suggestions resolve this, then you might consider buying a fast RAID array. Expensive, yes, and not typically needed for DV, but it will drive more streams of video than you can do now.
    Then again, I don't need to use multi-clip, so I don't know whether your particular problem is typical or not.

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