Spot focus and camera shake issues early

Merceq can detect sections where the image is blurry or the camera shakes. These ranges appear on the timeline as a thin orange line between the audio waveform and the blue speech blocks. The line runs only for the problem section.

1. Find the orange line on the timeline.
2. Hover over it. It may say, for example, “0:00–0:04 · out of focus” or “0:12–0:15 · camera shake”.
3. Click the line. The video goes to the beginning of the range.
4. Watch and decide: leave that range out of the scene, reject the clip, or use it anyway.

Things to know:

• The orange line appears after background analysis is complete. It isn’t shown while scanning is in progress.
• This analysis works only on previewable clips that are no longer than 30 minutes and whose source disk is connected.
• If the whole clip is blurry, no range appears. Find these clips with the Blurry filter (Section 5).
• Intentionally blurred backgrounds or smooth camera movements aren’t marked as problems.
• You’ll see this line only in the detailed video preview; it isn’t shown on clip cards.
• The same ranges feed the Out of focus and Shaky filters in the library (Section 5). They can also be added as markers to an editing project (Section 8).