[Jake Fantom]

I am far from an expert and I am not a professional videographer. However, I have spent the last five days obsessively researching this problem, and I found an answer that worked for me. I had some footage of a beautiful event (new mom and baby) that was ruined by horrible fluorescent light flicker. I tried literally every one of the various plugins, filters and tricks recommended in these pages and elsewhere. None of the BorisFX or GenArts or built-in AE effects worked worth a damn. The Furnace plug in might work. I tried the trial version. But it was going to take 24 hours to process about one minute of video on a fairly high-powered Mac, so I bagged that. The only plug in that worked was Magic Bullet Denoiser. I used this in FCP, but I believe it was also available for AE. It worked like a charm, completely eliminated the flicker, and added a creamy texture to skin tones without losing video quality (at least to my naked eye). The bad news is, apparently this filter is no longer available from Magic Bullet because the company they licensed it from was bought by Google. They are promising an updated version in the near future. I will be first on line for it.