[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

No problem, don’t worry about it.
Sometimes the COW helps auto-correct titles.

One thing that might be worth looking at is if you are recording mono audio into each channel, but using stereo leads?

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Paul,

So Sennheiser, not Sony microphones?

Have you tried something as simple as changing the cable out?
Might be something as simple as an ill-fitting jack plug – shouldn’t be, but if you pour water on it after midnight, you know what happens, right?

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Mike,

our friends at Re:Vision (They have a forum here on the COW) with a plug-in that works for VEGAS:
https://revisionfx.com/products/denoise/vegas-pro/#features

Topaz AI is another go to, but doesn’t have a VEGAS plug-in:
https://www.topazlabs.com/topaz-video-ai

There are other options out there, but I haven’t tried those.

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revisionfx.com

DE:Noise - RE:Vision Effects

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Paul,

My first question would be:
Do you have Automatic Gain Control (AGC) for the audio anywhere in the recording chain?

Looking up the Sony G series radio microphone, I get a number of small on camera microphones?
Not knowing what camera you are using, and if your mic is attached to the camera?

Then it might be something as trivial as auto-focus on the lens, doing its “silent” thing?
Sorry, throwing random questions, but would need to have a better illustration of the setup, before hoping to nail down your problem.

Having said that, if you can fix it in post, and are happy to do so, then you could keep doing that.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Zach,

Go to the COW After Effects forum for help with generative fill.

Depending on the background video that you are cleaning up, it may give you excellent results.

But as it is a moving shot, and as you have not shared the shot, it is difficult to make recommendations.

The best alternative is for your friend to dig deeper and find the original shot. Or maybe go on a stock site and find something suitable to replace it with?

Sorry, but there are no short-cuts to fix your problem.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

You are right, I can’t help you.

One last suggestion: Try and change the font to “Comic Sans” make it bold, maybe a bit of pink colour, and see if that helps you?

You might think that I am joking, I am not, but you have to be willing to try the other extreme to see if that fixes your flicker.

Maybe help all the people that are smarter than me on the COW by uploading an actual example of the problem + the specs of your system and software.

I know, it is frustrating, but then again, Adobe is not what it used to be.

Maybe if you export the elements to VEGAS and see what that does?
(I have recently purchase Vegas, so I am really not making a joke on that point)

Good Luck
Mads

BTW: I am the only one here who has tried to help you, late night, in my spare time. What does that tell you?

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Sorry, you clearly messed up somewhere.

Out of interest, are you using a cracked version of Adobe CC?

And, as I said, investigate your graphic – maybe change the font as a test…?

Mooooohhhh – is what we normally tell abusive users here.

Shortly the Bull that runs this barn will be coming at you full tilt – so just keep on waving the red flag.

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Did you try to extend the length of the roll by a far margin?

Yes/No?

Simple question, right.

With that in mind, maybe you need to head over to Adobe and went your anger there…

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Duke, I am not your enemy here, and sarcasm will get you nowhere.

Back in 1984 I started out as a cinema projectionist.

On 35mm – this is where celluoid is played back at either 24 frames-per-second, or 25 frames per second or whatever speed the projector was set to in fps (Called fps in common language).
Full frame though the gate, or progressive as we call it today for video.

Let’s for argument say that you swing the camera around, or roll a graphic fast up the screen, then it will start jumping, as the frames are not played back fast enough to make it a smooth movement.

For “slow-motion” you might shoot 120 fps and play back at 25fps.

Likewise, if you wanted to make it faster, you could “cut” frames out, or film a projection run at half speed.

Still with me?

Here is the kicker: If you have progressive footage, it will always remain progressive, so depending on your playback, you could render out your movie with progressive video in an interlaced format to allow your text to roll smoothly.

Or you change the speed of your text roll to a longer length until there are no jitter or artefacts.

Obviously, sometimes flicker can from other sources like not using an appropriate font, or using an unregistered plugin – there are many ways this can go wrong. But my first call would be to start with making the text roll for much, much longer (slow it down in case that is not apparent), to see if that removes the jitter.

Good Luck.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Duke,

This sounds like an old age problem going back to actual film production (including the first Star Wars film).

I suspect that you are exporting in progressive (full frame export), and that the text is moving too fast.

Either go Interlaced, or slow down the text movement to point where the flicker dissappear.

You could also give it ago with 50p or 60p export, if that is something that you can use?

It will be trial and error, and you may have to edit the text to make it shorter.

Hope that this helps?

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