• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Removing lines from captured shots of LCD monitor

  Posted by Michael Merritt on February 26, 2009 at 4:28 pm

  Hello all. I’m working on a training video for my company (I’m working with a 1920×1080 project), and to present some examples of what people on camera are talking about, I decided to get some screen captures. The captures are of several website pages where I have to highlight certain areas of them.

  After using a couple screen capture programs, I decided that the text would be too small to use as an effective demonstration.

  So I decided just to get some quick shots of them with a camera. But when I did this and imported the footage to Premiere, the shots were full of checkerboard lines (sorry, I don’t know the technical term) that I know are what make up the image on LCD screens.

  I was able to get around the problem somewhat by applying a Fast Blur effect (at the 2 setting) to the footage, but I was wondering if there was either a better solution to remove the lines, or if anyone knows a screen capture program that would allow me to zoom in to the parts of the screen I need?

  Thanks in advance.

  Michael Merritt replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  William Sticht

  February 26, 2009 at 6:13 pm

  Michael,

  I If you have the time to reshoot the footage, try adjusting the shutter on your camera to remove the scanning lines. LCDs are different from CRTs so I am not sure how effective this will be. havent tried this with HD footage, but I have used this technique quite successfully in SD.

  I am not sure if you can remove the flicker in post.

  Good luck.

  Fritz

  “If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.” – Jimmy Buffett
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  Michael Merritt

  February 28, 2009 at 6:58 am

  Thanks William. I tried your suggestion, but fiddling with the shutter speed on made the problem worse.

  I did notice that the issue seems to lessen when the shots are done further away from the monitor. But the further away you go, the closer I got to including the edges of the monitor in my shot, which wasn’t desirable to me. But it did help.

  Seems like perfect solution here, which kind of sucks. Especially because the problem seems likely to become even worse as the picture quality improves. Unless monitor technology changes before then.

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