Removing Slow Flicker

[Steve DiMaggio]

This isn's RED footage but, but it is an example I am running into a lot lately, very slow flicker like this. I have tried all types of frame rates and shutter angles, this in particular was shot on a gh4 with pix (proxy render), tried the deflicker plug in by seed, no go, they couldn't even figure it out. Anyone

steve

 

[Louis Maddalena]

You can fix this by dialing in your shutter speed to the same refresh light as the lights. Do it in small increments otherwise you'll end up going past the correct one and it will still be bad.

 

[Marc Wielage]

Digital Vision "Phoenix" restoration tools can do this:

http://www.digitalvision.tv/products/phoenix_film_restoration/

Be warned it's not cheap, but there are post houses that own it and can give you an hourly rate to de-flicker different projects.

 

[Jacob Ryan]

I've used Digital Anarchy's Flicker Free Plug-in. It works with both FCPX and Resolve. Very effective and inexpensive. They have great support too.

 

[Steve DiMaggio]

Can't find the buy link, I would be happy to pay a lot for a post solution

steve

 

[Jacob Ryan]

Try this link. https://store.digitalanarchy.com/23-VIDEO_PLUGINS

 

[Dermot Shane]

Can't find the buy link, I would be happy to pay a lot for a post solution

steve

some options;

BCC retoration set;
https://borisfx.com/pages/continuum-units-image-restoration

Flicker Free OFX;
https://store.digitalanarchy.com/videoplugins/216-flicker-free-resolve-scratch-openfx.html

Loki;
http://www.digitalvision.tv/loki/

i've used DVO (linked to loki) inside Nucoda, and BCC inside Resolve, as well as the native tools in Flame and DS,
- BCC has done a decent job inside Resolve, BCC restoration set has a plie of usefull tools includeing object removal powered by Mocha, dust buster and dead pixel fixer. it's a "must have" in any Resolve that's doing finshing beyond straight up color work.
- never used Flick Free, no idea how well it works, for the money BCC's wide range of tools seems a better bet long term
- DVO, ok now we are spending real money and getting amazing tools for it, and very intelegent semi-automated solves, easly the best tool imho
- DS, Smoke and Flame native, all pretty decent, take a bit more fiddling to get resualts, but they all have great tools to sort boundry area's where flicker tails off, like a window with sunlight with no flicker tapering off into an interior with flicker and an actor walking inbetween them... clear advantage to DS, Flame, Smoke

biggest issue maybe the boundry area's, any flicker fixer will neeed to have it's region that it effects roto'd or it will create a reverse flicker in area's that were clean before