Lighting Flicker

[Amber Sanders]

Perfect thanks Steve, if anyone does know the best settings for Denoiser to reduce the flicker would so appreciate the advice. Im struggling to get any results at all, but I’m not that familiar with it…

[Aaron Star]

Can you post a sample of your flicker problem to YouTube or Vimeo?

One idea I had, is to export to EXR, TIF, or PNG. Then use one of the software that corrects exposure issues with time lapse shots. Time Lapse shots often have iris issues that create slight variance in exposure from one frame to the next. This just sounds similar to lighting flicker. However it does depend on the amount of flicker, in the frame.

[Ann Bens]

I had the same problem, fixed it with De:flicker from DE:Vision.

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[Steve Crow]

I found this free alternative method online a few minutes ago I’m not necessarily recommending it because to my eye it really softens the image, but others were okay with it and it might be worth a shot in a crunch

https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/quick-trick-for-de-flickering-your-video-shots/

(be sure to read the comments about this method posted on the premium beat site) The plugins DE:Flicker and Flicker Free are not cheap but the results seem worth the expense. I researched just now the Denoiser II plugin from Red Giant and it doesn’t appear to me to have anything to do with video flicker removal but rather noise removal as the name suggests.

Steve Crow

[Amber Sanders]

HI Aron,

I don’t really want to as the footage is for an internal thing for the company and they will not release it so, just want to be safer than sorry. Apologies, i hope you understand.

As you say i think some type of deflicker software is probably the best option. I have the trial of Digital Anachys programme downloaded and it seems to work well…

Thank you again for your help 🙂

[Amber Sanders]

HI Steve,

I will definitely try that, though i would be wary, i noticed that even the more expensive software slightly softens the image, though i imagine to a lesser extent…

I thought that was the case with the Denoiser but had seem so many threads mentioning it i thought there might be a clever way of using it that i could not figure out!

Steve, thank you again for your help, it really is appreciated! Its so frustrating this as it seems like a freak occurrence with the lighting, but of course in the client head it will be my problem!

🙂

[Steve Crow]

No worries, that’s why we participate in this forum, to share our experiences. I’ve had this very thing happen myself and on the small LCD screen I didn’t notice it happening while we were filming. Perhaps if I had had a larger external monitor I could have caught it.

At least you now have a partial solution and you can always try adding a sharpness filter to the footage after the plugin has run, or maybe even before. Experiment and share with us how it goes.

Steve Crow

[Amber Sanders]

Thanks Steve,

I will do… Yea it is good to know that it can happen your right… at least to be on the look out!

🙂