• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  How to stop photos strobing

  Posted by Eve Myhill on July 5, 2010 at 9:47 am

  Hi,

  I have put a screen grab into my time line on top of some hd footage of a laptop. There is a push in on the laptop and so I have had to create put in motion on the still to keep the frame ration to the laptop screen. The photo is strobing like a zebra at a disco how can i fix this?

  By perusing the net i have tried so far

  Gaussian blur
  Movement filter
  Reduce interlace

  some of these methods didn’t really make sense to me, but at this stage i will try anything its looks awful!

  Also the full frame of the still, which also has motion is strobing.

  thanks in advance for your help

  Tom Brooks replied 15 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Craven

  July 5, 2010 at 7:55 pm

  [Eve Myhill] “The photo is strobing like a zebra at a disco how can i fix this?”

  Make sure it’s deinterlaced and try the flicker filter.
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  Tom Brooks

  July 7, 2010 at 1:41 pm

  This is best done in Motion at the least. My experience has been better in After Effects as far as good, clean quality goes, but Motion can be good too.

  If you want to try a couple FCP tweaks first, you are doing the right thing by trying a little bit of Gaussian Blur. Look at your Sequence Settings (⌘-0) and try setting Video Processing/Motion Filtering Quality to Best. I’m not sure this will help if you have rotated the still pic.

  If possible, go to Motion or AE. Preprocess the still in Photoshop to remove scanline texture as much as possible. In Motion, set quality to Best and do use Motion Blur. I use around 32 samples and shutter angle of 180. When using Motion, set your FCP Sequence Settings/Render Control/Master Templates and Motion Templates quality to Best.

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