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Image dazzle problems – what are your methods?
Folks on some of my images that I have Ken Burns-like motions on I am getting twinkling no matter what I do. I am curious how some of you are fixing this problem.
So far I have tried:
– 0.5 Gaussian blur
– Joes Filter: Field blender
– Joes Filter: DeinterlacerI am working on a DVCPRO HD 720p60 timeline and most of these images are embeded in the PAN ZOOM PRO plugin for moving them.
Tangier
FC Studio/ G5 Dual 2/ Tiger/ All updates
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Sometimes Motion Blur works for me.
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Optimize the images for TV in Photoshop. No more than 72 DPI, no larger then 2-3 times the native frame size.
Kevin Monahan
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Tangier,
Kevin is so correct about the rez and size. but also, inside PanZoomPro there is a wonderful deflickerator that works miracles.
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Thanks everyone, especially you Kevin. This really helped and cleaned up some of my images. It didn’t work with everything, but using this with a little Gaussian did the trick. Otherwise just modifying my image dpi and res worked.
Rendering the Pan Zppm Pro deflicker parameter now.
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There is also a deflicker filter right in FCP that renders fast and has three levels of adjustment. Works pretty good as well.
Rich Rubasch
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Just a tip, try blurring only in the Y (vertical) axis using directional blur in photoshop. I’ve fixed many images this way and you can’t see the softness as much, because it’s only in one direction. Lots of flicker problems that are because of sharpness, are caused by interlace lines, so in that case, there’s no need to blur horizontaly, it doesn’t help the flicker, and it causes the softness from the blur to be more visible. It doesn’t always work, but it’s always my first attempt.
Thanks,
Gary -
No need to go to Photoshop. ;-D
If you buy my book, you get a vertical blur filter for free designed by Graeme Nattress of G Filters and G Film called “Telly’s FX”. I’ve seen the book as low as $22! But it’s probably better to buy it here at the Cow’s Dairy Store. 😉
Just go 1 pixel for vertical blur in the plug-in. Believe you can also do this in Motion and LiveType. More about all this if’n you take a certain special “seminar”. 😉
Kevin Monahan
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Thanks Kevin. I’d love to attend your seminar, but I’m just too busy to be traveling west right now. Do you think you’ll hit Ohio or Tennessee anytime?
Thanks,
Gary -
Hope to be out to both places eventually. 😉
K.
Kevin Monahan
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