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Gerard Gentil
May 2, 2009 at 5:40 pm in reply to: Flickering effect from 3 way Color Corrector

Dear David,

I want to apologize for not getting back to you sooner. The fact is that my Hard Drive completely fried on me, as a result I lost all the work that was is progress. I am busy now re-digitizing everything so I can start the process again. Let me see when I get to the part of the underexposed background and I might need your pick your brain again.

Thank again for your help,

Gerard
Gerard Gentil
April 19, 2009 at 1:16 am in reply to: Flickering effect from 3 way Color Corrector

Of course, the tools are in the “Toolbox”. How stupid of me.
Thanks Rafael, I will look into that “box” …
Gerard Gentil
April 17, 2009 at 2:40 pm in reply to: Flickering effect from 3 way Color Corrector

Thanks for the tip Michael.
Gerard Gentil
April 17, 2009 at 2:39 pm in reply to: Flickering effect from 3 way Color Corrector

The over-driving luminance idea sounds accurate. Where do I find he waveform/vectorscopes?
Also, I don’t know where to get the Broadcast Safe filter so I can make the test; please, bear with my ignorance…
Gerard Gentil
April 17, 2009 at 2:29 am in reply to: Flickering effect from 3 way Color Corrector

David,
Here are some answers:
1) I am using a Mac-Pro Lap-Top only.
Just so you know I already formatted the clip into a quick time file (thinking the flickering would go away, since FCP does a lot of things automatically on it’s own) and I also burnt a DVD in order to judge the final product.

2) I shot on Mini-DV Standard Definition at 29.97 FPS

3) I am using a LACIE 250 GB external Hard Drive

To explain the “flickering” problem better, it looks like there’s WIND BLOWING through a curtain backlit, from an over-exposed window in the background and in a flower, also backlit and over-exposed, attached to a girl’s hair in the foreground. The background was under-exposed, that is the reason why I use the 3way corrector to balance the exposure with the previous shots.

I hope this will help.
Gerard Gentil
April 17, 2009 at 2:06 am in reply to: Flickering effect from 3 way Color Corrector

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your input. Even though I don’t quite understand how that works yet, what you say makes sense. However, since I don’t know yet what I am doing I may have to start from scratch and re-do the entire correction by paying attention to the key-frames. In the meantime I will give to David the information that he needs to see if he finds a solution.

Thanks again…
Gerard Gentil
April 16, 2009 at 10:34 pm in reply to: Flickering effect from 3 way Color Corrector

Humm, very interesting David, since after rendering the problem still exists… Any more thoughts for my future?
Gerard Gentil
April 16, 2009 at 8:50 pm in reply to: Flickering effect from 3 way Color Corrector

Hello David,

Thank you for your prompt reply. After reading your message I checked the window that you mentioned and in fact the most important part, which you said was “Full”, was not checked. So I will re-render and let you know the result.

Thanks a lot for you help,

Gerard
Gerard Gentil
April 16, 2009 at 8:50 pm in reply to: Flickering effect from 3 way Color Corrector

Hello Rafael,

Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. I don’t quite understand what you mean by too “closed”. That would be great if you could explain. Obviously the 3way Color Corrector is completely new to me so I also could have had too many Key-frames… I must be missing something.

Thanks for wanting to help,

Gerard