Has anyone managed to use Vid. Stab successfully and if so, how?

There are two ways to apply it in Kdenlive and one in Shotcut. If I apply it in the Kdenlive media tree, which is before trimming, it seems to have very little effect.

If I attempt to apply it from the timeline after trimming, I can bring up the Detect and Transform settings, but nothing happens. Sometimes I get the error "Bad image sequence" which asks for confirmation, but after confirming, still nothing happens. If I try to apply Deshake I get the notice "Problem adding effect to clip".

I know Detect and Transform is pass 1 and Deshake is pass 2, but can find no way (yet) to run pass 1 so I can apply pass 2. Can you help?

I tried it in Shotcut as a test, with little success.

It can also be applied using the command line, but I am struggling to get it to work this way (I am not au fait with the command line). Again, any assistance will be appreciated.

I am using openSUSE 13.1.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Dave

Bump - just in case someone who can help missed my post.

Otherwise, since I posted two weeks ago, shall I assume nobody here knows anything that may help?

Cheers anyway,
Dave