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Flickering screen captures
I do a lot of video where I capture website demos (using Snapz Pro) and then animate it in after effects. I render the after effects project and then import into final cut. The project is done in widescreen ratio, so I fix the distort back to 0. And then, usually, a flicker filter effect is enough to fix the flickering from the site’s tiny print.
But after upgrading to AE CS4, this doesn’t seem to work. It looks crisp until I import it into final cut. Does anyone else have this problem? And how do you go about fixing it?
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4 Replies
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You can try a slight gaussian blur, but if the text is too small it’s gonna flicker, especially fonts with very thin lines…
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Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, even a radius of 1 makes the text of the website video unreadable. And it still flickers.
The video plays perfectly in AE and perfectly in Quicktime. I tried exporting it again in quicktime just for giggles, but whenever I import it into FCP, it looks terrible.
Is there a setting in FCP that needs to be changed?
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Try 0.5 or 0.25 with the blur.
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That did help a little, but not enough. Thankfully, I just figured out my problem. It WAS a setting issue.
Apparently loading a sequence preset of DV NTSC and then checking the anamorphic box will not produce the same quality as selecting the sequence preset for DV NTSC Anamorphic. It makes no sense, since whether the anamorphic box is checked the only difference I can find between the two… but when I loaded the latter setting, flicker filter worked as it was supposed to and I don’t even need the extra blur.
Thanks for the suggestions, though!
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