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Fluorescent flickering
How do you deal with shots that have some flickering due to fluorescent lighting?
Last year I shot a video with a PD170 NTSC camera in Argentina, which is a 50Hz country.
Even if practically all was shot with available light, and I was aware that regular fluos should be turned off, there was one sequence that I had no option but to shoot with the light they used… which was 50Hz fluos!
Now I am looking to correct it, if possible. What tools I might have to help me there?
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3 Replies
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FlickerFX 3prong
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Thanks, Sep.
In the meantime I made Google search looking for a plugin for VirtualDub. I remembered I had read something from someone that got good results from it.
Well, I did found it and after some time doing tests to learn how to use it, trial and error really, I got excellent results.
In fact I do recommend it. I have already used it in two shots, one of them facing actually a flickering bulb and you barely can see any throb where you saw real pumping before. The wider shot shows absoluely no hint it had any flickering ever. Remarkable.
The only price to pay is that you can’t import the file from Avid and work on it, as you need a file VirtualDub will recognize, like avi. So you lose the original time-code in the process. A small price to pay, in my opinion, for such a huge life-saver.
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The price / satisfaction ratio is, in that case, unbeatable !
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