ProDAD Mercalli PRO 2.1 StandAlone And Plugins 2.0 Portable
Giovanna Qiu
I have Magix Movie Studio 2023 Suite version 22.0.3.152 (UDP3) with proDAD Mercalli V6 SAL. How do I download and install the proDAD plugin for Magix Movie Studio on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit? Thank you for your help!
Gid, the Mercalli provided is a standalone version. Admittedly I am only running the trial of 2023, but there appears to be no integration with Mercalli V6 as provided in the "deal" and MMS 2023. This is unlike previous, where Mercalli is available as an Effect.
My struggle is over! I built my (now) system 2 in 2011 when DV was king and MPEG 2 was just coming onto the scene and I needed a more powerful system to cope. Since then we've advanced to MP4 and to bigger and bigger resolutions. I was really suffering, not so much in editing (with proxies) but in encoding, which just took ages. A video, with Neat Video noise reduction applied, would encode at 12% of film speed. My new system 1 does the same job at 160% of film speed. Marvellous. I'm keeping my old system as a capture station for analogue video tapes and DV.
Thank you for the idea. I already downloaded and installed the proDAD Mercalli V6 SAL application and it launches fine. But when I go to Movie Studio / Effects / Video Effects, there is no "proDAD" tile to click on and use within Movie Studio, like I saw in this tutorial (attached).
Thanks again for all your help. I went to that proDAD page earlier and only saw Mercalli V5, plus no link to a plugin page. I just sent proDAD.com a message asking how to install their plugin, but my sense is that because Mercalli V6 is so new they might not have one yet.
@AlanA Keep an eye on the Magix page purchase offers, I've upgraded/rebought MEP a couple of times even though i didn't need to just to get the added extras, last time i upgraded a couple of mths after i'd already paid for an upgrade just to get Newblue TotalFX. So i paid 50-ish in Jan for my reg annual upgrade, but then paid 50-ish again in lets say March for the same Magix product just because it had the TotalFX plugin inc worth 'One-Time Perpetual License $699' ?
I also missed the fine print about proDAD Mercalli V6 being stand-alone, not a plug-in. I'm a little disappointed. V5 was time-limited. That's the main reason I updated to MS 2023, to get at proDAD Mercalli V6, expecting it would be a plug-in. Them's the breaks!
The single app includes many more (video "editing") features than V5 (or any previous version) had and my feeling is that ProDAD have targeted it at a much wider market than those of use who like to use plugins.
Mercalli V6 is a completely different concept and is designed for maximum editing speed, especially at 4K. The current MAGIX architecture does not offer us the possibility to install this technology in MAGIX as a plug-in. We are hoping for an extension on the part of the MAGIX developers, so that we can then offer our latest technologies (starting now with Mercalli V6) in MAGIX again in the future. We recommend that you install the demo version of Mercalli V6 and make a speed comparison. This will quickly show you what the new technology is capable of. By the way, you can easily import stabilised clips into MAGIX and process them there. From this point of view, using the stand-alone version (SAL) of Mercalli is already a real time-saver.
It happens when applying some of the more processing intensive effects and only if I try to carry on editing once an effect is set up. The program is not freezing up at any point but with Task manager on my other screen I see my GPU continue to do work once an effect is altered and applied. If at that point I try to do anything else before that activity completes (and it can take up to half a minute or more to complete,) is when the program just drops out of use. When I re-open the application and try to reload the project it is as if nothing happened. No crash report and the last effect I tried to apply is completely missing.
So for now I'm not going to upgrade my copy of Movie Edit Pro 2022 which still works without issue and I am seriously considering moving back to VPX 12. It's as if the speed of my system is now no longer fast enough for the newer versions of the program.
1 x 250GB Evo 970 NVMe: drive for C: drive backup 1 x 1TB Sabrent NVMe drive for Operating System / Programs only. 1X WD BLACK 1TB internal SATA 7,200rpm hard drives.1 for internal projects, 1 for Library clips/sounds/music/stills./backup of working projects. 1x500GB SSD current project only drive, 2x WD RED 2TB drives for latest footage storage. Total 21TB of 8 external WD drives for backup.
Ray, no problems, performance-wise with MMS 2023 here; just the same as previous versions. I don't like it because it's SD handling is borked. I've now got two versions, upgrade and full, and I figure that the Mercalli V6 plugin should work with MEP 2021, even if I don't put this 2023 upgrade on my machine. Hmmm.
So, recently, I dropped a bunch of money on Vegas Pro 20 and even more recently I dropped a pretty big chunk of change on that V6 Mercalli plugin pack for Magix (for Vegas I assume). I have a camera with some pretty horrifyingly bad rolling shutter (a Canon XF605) so I figured this might be a good thing to pick up.
I tried searching for this on the forum. I'm not sure if the search is just broken or not optimized, but nothing came up (if anyone has a link to a relevant thread or, better, the solution, that'd be greatly appreciated too).
I actually asked ProDad back in January 2023, about whether and when they are going to release Mercalli V6 Plug-Ins for VEGAS Pro. ProDad support said this product is coming soon, however "soon" could mean anything.
The alternative is to buy Mercalli V6 SAL Windows.
This is a full standalone version of Mercalli and works outside of VEGAS.
This is what I personally use. It's very good. I import my video, stabilize it, then render a new video, which can then be imported into my VEGAS Pro project for further editing.
What is incredible is, Mercalli has NOTHING on their website that is compatible with Vegas right now. So, as far as the Magix stuff goes, they seem to have no software at all currently available for Vegas PERIOD. You cannot buy v4 or v5 plugins for vegas on the main tab. So, they have NOTHING for that. Its a bit weird, because VEGAS was the top app, I guess now its not even worth trying to sell software for it.
While the plugin for V5 is nice (I have V5 Suite for Vegas), I also have V6 standalone. Yes, it would be nice to have the plugin version, but for the most part, I personally rarely use it. It's there for emergencies.
But because proDAD doesn't have it for Vegas doesn't mean that Vegas is any "less" of a top app. Maybe if proDAD made an OFX version, it would sell more. The only other software that supports Mercalli as a plugin is Adobe and Edius. I don't see Davinci Resolve, FCP, Media Composer or any other editing software on that list. Does that mean that selling to those software isn't worth it? Maybe because they have alternative choices?
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