Fluro lights flicker

[Aanarav Sareen]

How bad are they? and also depends on the situation. You can probably trick the viewer and repeat one of the prior non-flickering frames.

Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certfied Expert, Premiere Pro
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/video

[Craig Howard]

I doubt you can fix it because the “flicker” is usually accompanied by a phase effect that dims and brightens the output of the fluro over a short time.ie ..its not actually an on/off flicker but more lke a sine wave.

Craig
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[David J]

If you have a fixed camera, you could always take a still, cut out the lights, and paste the non-flickering still over the flickery bits.

Or use a matte to isolate the lights on a copy of the video and experiment with the echo filter to blend several frames together to see if that might reduce the flicker.

[Shane Chadder]

I assume this is footage shot with an NTSC camera in the land of 50Hz power?

I’ve done a frame blend effect with Discreet edit that helps even things out if there isn’t a lot of motion in the segment. I don’t know Premiere well enough to suggest how to replicate that.

[Craig Howard]

The flicker wont only be seen on the light sources (the tubes)…it will also be seen on what ever they are illuminating (usually)

Craig
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Shane Chadder]

Right but blending frames evens the flicker out because you mix adjacent frames. I haven’t been on an edit system for a while to recall exactly how it works. But it does help considerable. You might play with putting the footage down twice offset by a frame and play with the transparency of the top track.

[David J]

Funnily enough, although no-one seems to have noticed, blending frames as a way to reduce flicker was why I suggested trying the echo filter in my earlier response.