Highlight/Shadow Flicker

[Lloyd Coleman]

Is the ‘Auto Amounts’ box checked? If so, Premiere looks at each frame and does an automatic adjustment. If the lighting/subject changes very much from frame to frame Premiere will change the amount of adjustment needed to correct each frame. This will often look like ‘flicker’ as you see the frames with different adjustment viewed at normal speed. To correct this, when you have the ‘Auto Amounts’ box checked you will also have the ‘Temporal Smoothing’ adjustment available. Put a number in the box and Premier will look at adjacent frames when determining the amount of adjustment for each frame. By looking at adjacent frames it won’t correct one frame too much more than the previous and next frame, thus reducing the ‘flicker’ effect you are seeing. You can also check the ‘Scene Detect’ box so Premiere won’t take into account the exposure of the next scene when averaging the adjustment of the current scene.

I hope this helps.

[Rob Sgarlata]

Thansk, that sounds like exactly the fix I need. I’m a little surprised because there is not much movement. It is basically a talking head clip, but it was shot in a living room in the evening, so there may have been rapid changes taking place in the natural light. I will work with these adjustments.

Thanks again.