Freeze Frames

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

You should not attempt a serious edit by only looking at the computer monitor for judging quality.

FCP is designed as an editing SYSTEM to be operated with an external video monitor connected
(through a camcorder is just fine) DURING the edit process.
The external video monitor would have shown you that many video “freeze frames” will wiggle, dance, jitter, flicker, etc.

This Still-frame “flicker” is absolutely normal and is due to the fact that video “frames” are actually made up of TWO “fields”.
If there is a lot of ACTION (or motion) in the frame you chose to “freeze”, the 2 fields will appear slightly different from one another and will jump back-and-forth between themselves, over and over during the “freeze”.

To solve the problem, just add the “Flicker Filter” or, better still, the “De-Interlace Filter” to the freeze(s).

Effects (tab) >
Video Filters >
Video >
De-Interlace (or)
Flicker Filter

Again, if you watch the external monitor, you will see the flicker go away after a filter is applied.

[Tad Newberry]

ya, i realize about the output/broadcast monitor, and what is odd is that NONE of the filter affects are showing up on my monitor (though they did a few days ago)! yikes. somewhere i changed a setting so that my output monitor is only acting like a second computer monitor (which i don’t want). very odd…i’ve asked Blackmagic about this as well since i can’t figure out what i changed that made it this way…

my guess is that when this is figured out the flicker on the freeze frame will be gone as well? : )

thanks for helping out a bonehead!