- Hey guys, my name is Matt Johnson
and today I want to show you how to remove camera flashes
from your video footage in Adobe Premiere Pro
and take your footage from looking like this
with photographer flash after flash going off
to this, clean
and smooth video with no flashes to be seen
is this witchcraft Matt?
That looks so good.
I'm telling you, I'm so excited about this tutorial.
If you're a wedding videographer like me,
I'm sure you've worked with a wedding photographer
that has brought out a camera flash at some point.
Now I love photographers nothing against them.
I know that they need light
just as much as videographers do.
But sometimes there are a lot of flashes in my footage
and I want to remove them so the video looks better.
Let's jump right into Premiere
and I'm gonna show you how to do that now.
Welcome to Premiere Pro.
Now this technique to remove camera flashes
will work with any version of Premiere after CC 2015.
So as long as you have a later version than that,
you're good to go.
Now I've already imported a video clip here
and put it down on the timeline.
As you can see, it's from a wedding that I filmed
and there are flashes going off every few seconds
with your video clip full of flashes
that you need to remove.
The first thing that you're gonna wanna do
is zoom in on your video clip by pressing the plus key
and then start scrubbing through the video clip
until you find the first camera flash
and stop your playhead
directly on where it is flashing
click to select your video clip
and then press Control + K
if you're on PC or Command + K if you're on a Mac,
to cut the video clip directly where the flash is
next press the right arrow key to move the playhead forward
so that the flashes no longer visible
and press Control + K again to make another cut.
Now a lot of times a photographer's flash
will flash multiple times.
So pressing the right arrow
I'm gonna forward a bit
there is another part of the flash
I'm gonna press Control + K,
move forward one frame press Control + K again
Now I'm going to repeat this process
throughout the entire clip,
finding a flash making a cut
until I have made cuts where all of the flashes are
that I want to have removed in the video clip.
I'm going to zoom out here by pressing the minus key.
And as you can see,
I have now made cuts at the beginning
and end of every single flash in this clip
next, press the plus key multiple times
to zoom in very close and then go through
and select all of these clips that have a flash
and press the delete key to delete them from the timeline.
With that done as you can see,
there are no flashes but now there's just blank spots
in between the video clips
that's not good to remove those
move over to the right of your clip,
click and drag and select the entire video clip.
Then go up to Sequence, Close Gap, tadah.
Now all of these spaces are removed,
hit play and now the flashes are gone.
But wait a second, Matt.
You got rid of the flashes
but now there's just little jumps in the footage
where you remove the frames this sucks
How can you fix it?
Do not worry.
Now here's my secret beard sauce
to fix all of this
and make all of your clip transitions smooth.
You're gonna click and drag to select all of your clips.
Then right click on your selected clips
and go to Nest, title your Nested Sequence,
wedding exit flash removed.
Nice name, click OK.
And as you can see, all the clips are gone
and they've been replaced with a big singular green clip.
Looking pretty, last step, right click on this new clip,
go to Speed/Duration.
And then over here it says time interpolation.
Click this drop down and select Optical Flow and press OK.
You're done, It's fixed, hit play
and your video should be playing back smoothly.
Even with the frames removed.
It's that easy,
with that I hope this video has been helpful to you
with removing photographer flashes from your video footage.
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Also, if you're a videographer like me,
you probably want to book more couples
and film more weddings
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You can download it
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Thanks so much for watching and have a great day.