feel my pulse

[Aaron Neitz]

This isn’t entirely helpful – but I know our Flame has a filter than scans frame to frame and equalizes the levels so that flickering goes away. there must be a plugin for AE or something.

[Ben Insler]

You’re picking up the flicker from the lights, and that’s recorded in the image itself (on an exaggerated scale, imagine turning the lights on your set on and off repeatedly while filming). I’ve removed this effect somewhat successfully when doing timeliapse image sequences in after effects using some of the auto processes (like exposure, levels, contrast, and experimenting with some others), but I think you’re pretty stuck if you’re trying to solve this in FCP.

Best,

Ben

[David Battistella]

I wonder if Natress’s Deflash filter could help with this. He wrote it with the intention of finding the spots in a DV file when a camera flash pops, maybe it can be tricked into a different sensitivity.

David

Peace and Love 🙂

[Kevin Monahan]

Embrace it, it’s a look baby.

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[Mark Raudonis]

Best example of “it’s a look, baby!”… Remember the TV show, “Twin peaks”? They shot a crucial scene in a morgue where the HMI lights somehow got out of sync with the camera, creating exactly that kind of “on off” strobe like look. Upon seeing the dailies, everyone was impressed with such a bold, creative, “look” that the DP came up with. 🙂 It made the scene creepy beyond anyone’s wildest imagination.

So, yeah, “it’s a look” baby!

Either that or use the “reshoot” filter.

Mark

[Ron James]

Or just use the flicker filter in FCP. It’s worked pretty well for me in the past.

[Moog Gravett]

Ha Ha –

thanks guys,

You know, the more I look at it, the more I like the ‘It’s a look’ option 😉

And hey – if Twin Peaks can do it, then I’ll take a chunk o’ that!!

Cheers for all your input!

Moog

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[Kevin Monahan]

Great story Mark! 🙂

You know, at LAFCPUG there was a cool video that was shot on the HVX shown. It had flourescent flicker pretty badly in this one scene. When I asked him about it, he said, “Sure it was a mistake. I left it in, I thought it looked cool”. Or something to that effect.

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[Ben Insler]

PS All regarding the HMI lighting thing in Twin Peaks – it probably happened because one of the HMI ballasts (the big brick that handles the power) was broken. This causes flicker that we can’t really see too well, until of course you watch your footage… and it happens in all mediums. Just something to watch for with HMIs.

And yes, happy mistakes are great!

Best,

Ben