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Getting rid of strobe
I recently was called up to fix a edit, the problem was, this director had shot a promo with a strobe light in it but it had been rejected by the ITC, because of the strobe effect may cause epilepisy, The director didn’t want to replace the footage, I had to work to try and counteract the strobe affect, is there any plugin that will just take out the fames of black between the strobe so that you wouldn’t get the strobe going to black just displaying the light frames, I know there is some after effects plugins that can displace time, but is there any FCP plugins that can do this? bearing in mind that the strobe isn’t at a fixed frame pattern
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If you get rid of the black frames then you’ll end up with “strobed video” with frames missing. You’ll have to manually remove all the black frames but I’m not sure if this is going to achieve a desired look when you’re done. I would fix maybe 5 – 10 seconds and have someone look at it before you complete the entire video.
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Yea this is what I had to do is go In and cut the black frames out ‘which when you play back you get jump frames of the person dancing, this also bring another problem, the ITC recomends only 3 cut per second, when you cut out the black frames you can get anything between 7-15 cuts per second, I think the director needs a re shoot,
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Well, yeah.
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Is slowing down the footage to make the strobe effect less pronouced a possiblity?
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Yeah did that too, slowed the footage down, but director said it took all the energy out of the shot, ‘Can’t have your cake and eat it’
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Hello Dogfather
What about adjusting the levels of your “black” clips so that they become bright? – bet here would be some detail in there but also lots of noise.
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