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Elmo transvideo TRV-16G
Hi,
I’ve bought a couple of Elmo transvideo TRV-16G units for transferring 16mm cine. I seem to get ‘flicker’ effect when I’m capturing from the machine through PremierePro.
I know this shouldn’t happen with these kind of machines as I have a couple of the same ones but for 8mm cine film and there isn’t a problem with any flicker.
Is there anything I can adjust in P/P to eliminate this problem? Or does anyone know whether it might be the machine that needs adjusting?
Thanks in advance. -
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Does the Elmo have a variable speed knob? That might be the solution.
I do quite a bit of 8mm/super8 film to DVD. WE started using an old VHS camera with good results, then it quit. WE tried several consumer DV cams that resulted bad flicker, then tried a VX 2100 that works very well on manual focus and auto exposure..
If you are capturing in Premiere via firewire, there is nothing short of changing the luminance of every frame to fix things in Premiere. -
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately the 16mm TRVs don’t have a variable speed knob, unlike the 8mm ones! (Strange?!)
You mentioned ‘changing the luminance of every frame to fix things in Premiere’. Is there any way you can automatically ‘adjust/lighten’ the file, either whilst it’s being captured or when it’s in ‘avi’ format in Premiere?
For example – 2 frames every 20 frames, or something like that?
When I apply ‘auto color’ in the effects menu, it seems to reduce the flicker a little bit as it lightens the image…
Best regards,
Bruce.
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[Brucie Baby] “For example – 2 frames every 20 frames, or something like that?”
Unfortunately not.
Are you capturing via firewire? You would have to work one frame at a time@##@
Some flicker is inevitable. -
Hi Mike, I’m capturing via a ‘s-video’ lead through a ‘advc-50’ box. The problem could well be the ‘anti-flicker’ device on the machine. Posibly the timing…
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