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Flickering images in Adobe products
Hello all,
I have a re-occuring problem with AE, Premiere and Encore. Essentially, when I use any graphics (such as PSD or AI files), photos and add any motion to them, I get a flickering effect on the edges of finer detail. It also happens when I use smallish fonts in Encore Menus(not too small though 14-16 pt stuff)
In AE I can reduce this effect by applying motion blur, while in Premiere the anti-flicker filter or one of the blur filters reduces this somewhat. The problem is the effect is still there to an unreasonable extent, not to mention that using a blur filter reduces the clarity of my footage.
I was thinking this may have something to do with field settings but everything I use follows standard adobe settings (i.e. I create all my project and compositions using settings from the pull down menus). I use PAL (I’m in Australia).
I am at a loss as to why this is happening. The strange thing is last year when I was using an old canopus storm and their proprietry editing software I never had this problem. Then again, up until late last year I didn’t do a heap of compositing where as nowadays I regularly do. I have recently upgraded to the Production Studio, which has not improved this effect even slightly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Timothy Eng
Timothy Eng
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4 Replies
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You may be running in to the fact that Standard Def video sucks. Even uncompressed is still interlaced, which will contribute to ugly artifacts.
Make sure you have proper field settings, and are rendering to fields.There is a reason that underlines were almost never smaller than 4 pixels high for CG work… interlace flicker.
Detail will usually look worse in reality (video playback) than it does on your computer monitor.
Wish I had a better solution for you,
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Unsafe colors can aggravate the issue. Try desaturating the stills abit and keep font colors under the 235,235,235 values.
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Hi guys thanks for all of your help. I really appreciate it.
I don’t have a problem with any of my captured video footage, just stills and any graphics I generate in other adobe apps; so I imagine that when you are talking about my field settings Jeff you are reffering to the export settings. I always render to lower field first if I use the export > movie command or the Adobe media encoder. Was there any other settings I need to make sure I get right?
As far as desaturating the image and adjusting the levels to 235… Well I ran a levels filter on a section that had the problem and set everything to a max output value of 235 with no luck. So it looks like I will have to continue and search for the fix.
But surely there are other ways of fixing the problem without resorting to big chunky graphics with little detail.
Out of curiosity, do other people have this problem when they are using stills and graphics? (the problem is far worse with stills that zoom and pan than with graphics) Maybe it is a workflow issue? Which ways do you guys incorporate your stills and graphics into projects?
Timothy Eng
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I am having the same problem – I have beautiful pictures from an autumn wood (6 MP taken with Canon G6) amd when I try to pan them in AE there is a flicker which seems to come from the fact that the pictures are composed of pixels …
Help would be greatly appreciated!
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