Flickering Pictures Within Slide Show

[Randall Raymond]

Often flickering is the result of over sharpening – did you use the sharpening filter on the photos?

[Carlo Simone]

I did not use any filters. Where would I find it? Through Ultimate S or in Vegas somewhere?

Thanks again.

[Mike Kujbida]

You didn’t say how large your images were. I’m talking about image size (in pixels) as opposed to file size. Quite often resizing the image(s) helps a lot.

Try the flicker reduction In Vegas instead of DVD Architect.
Right-click on the clip and select “Switches – Reduce Interlace Flicker”.
To apply this to every clip on the timeline, select all of them (click the first one and then shift-click the last one) and do this.

You can also apply a very light Gaussian blur (vertical only – set to 0.001) at the track level or master output.

[Carlo Simone]

Thanks Mike, I will try this…

[Neil Moxham]

I get logo’s , pics from clients that were often meant for print.
File sizes are huge. If I put those on video they jump like mexican jumping beans.
Thin horizontal lines are chronically a problem so…

-Reduce flicker on each problem slide first.

-Make sure that your pixel ratio is close to the video
–Even better is doubling the ratio.
-IE: Video is 720 x 480
– put your picture in photoshop and “image re-size”
as close to double that as possible.
1440 x 960
720 x 480 or 1 to 1 is OK but edges are crisper if doubled.
If your are doing any pushes or movement you have to account for that as well.

-the very light vertical blur works too.
-Sometimes a light color shift has helped on whites.
If they are too bright (out of range) they will crunch on the edges so I shift it a little creamier, has helped sometimes.
Also try a chroma blur on medium. This softens where colors meet.

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