Removing Screen Flicker In FCP

[Ernie Santella]

If you add a filter like flicker, it will effect the entire shot and look funny on a person. You could create a freeze frame of the scene and then crop it into the monitor. If the shot moves, then you need to track the screen in a program like After-effects. If it goes behind the person, then you need to create a moving matte. There isn’t an instant fix for a moving shot.

Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
http://www.santellaproductions.com

[Chris Poisson]

Rich,

To shoot a (relatively) clean CRT you need to match your shutter speed to the scan, not easy to do manually. There used to be sync crystals or something we used ages ago but I don’t know what that might be for today’s cameras.

The easiest way out I use today is to shoot from an LCD screen. Exposure/lighting then becomes your only real headache.

[Ernie Santella]

Back about 10-15 years ago, this local guy out here in Denver came up with a brilliant invention. He created overlays of different sizes that you could place on the screen of a computer. They were generic pictures of average PC screens (Word documents) You turn the computer off and place these over the screens and they looked like the computer is on! Worked great. Especially in large offices where you might see 3 or 4 PC’s. As many times the PC’s were all running at different frame rates.

Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
http://www.santellaproductions.com

[James Marshall]

Assuming the problem is in shots you already have and if the shots are pretty static you could try adding a little motion blur (in the motion tab). Movement within the shot will look pretty odd so you may need to cut out the problem area so you only treat the.
Try the first setting at around 90 and the second to 2.
good luck

James 🙂