Hey, my name is Matt Johnson, and today I'm going to be showing you
how to take your video from this with slow rolling flicker bands
that are moving up through the clip to this significantly better
looking footage that is much more usable and to save you time,
I've actually made a preset that you can use with minimal
tweaking that will help automatically remove these bands from your footage.
You can download it for free below.
Now, let's start by removing some of these ugly bands.
Make sure you have Premiere open.
And here is the clip that I want to fix.
first thing you need to know is that this footage was shot in Slog
three with my A7's three, and so it looks very flat and desaturated.
We need a color grade this clip first so we can see how dark and contrast
this flicker band will be.
first, make sure that you are in the color workspace at the top
and then go over here to the Blue Metric color panel.
And with the clip selected, all these tools are going to be available.
Go over to the Creative tab and I'm going to be using one of my Let's
Do Color grade this footage. As I said, it was shot in this log three.
So I'm going to be using my slug three tune to let you check it out there.
We're getting a lot of color and contrast back instantly
if you want to get awesome colors in your videos too.
I will link to my Who is Matt Lutz down below?
Let's play this clip back now and see how this looks.
As you can see, you have the rolling band here that's slowly moving upwards.
I was shooting this at 120 frames per second, and clearly these lights
did not like being filmed at 120 frames per second, which gave us that
lovely band looking at this footage here with a lot of pride.
I do want to make some small tweaks to it here.
Namely, these lights were very warm.
So let's go over to temperature and let's drop it down to about negative
seven or so.
So we're cooling off the image a little bit
and then I want it to be a little bit brighter.
Let's see out there and see.
I'm already starting to remove this Flickr band a little bit.
Let's see if we can help it out a little bit more.
We're going to shadows
boost the shadows just a little bit, which I think is OK
because they're already backlit by this light.
And so that's already washing out the shadows a little bit.
Boost the whites ever so slightly.
And then let's drop the back.
And I think that looks pretty good.
Let's play back and see how it looks.
So we've already helped
out a little bit from where we started, but clearly this clip needs some work.
Here's where the fix comes in.
We're going to go over here to the Lumet Tricolor Panel.
We're going to select add lumet tricolor effect, which,
as the name implies, adds a second lumet tricolor effect.
And then we need to select and mask out
where this flicker band is occurring.
So I'm going to change the fit of the image to 25%
so I can see around the edges of the clip.
And then I'm going to go over here to this second effect.
I'm going to select free draw Ba'asyir, the little pin tool, and then I'm going
to click at the four Corners where this flicker band is happening.
Also, make sure that you're at the start of your clip
whenever you do this, and I'm going to click here.
So now we have a nice line going along the top of where the Flicker Band is,
then I'm going to click here and here, and then we'll end it.
So now we have a nice box around the Flicker Band.
Don't worry if this isn't super precise,
try to get it in roughly the middle of where the band is fading out.
Then we're going to go over here to mask feather
and we're going to change its routine and we're going to bring up the feather
until the feathering kind of covers where the band is fading.
And I think that looks pretty good there.
I think it may actually go down a little bit lower here.
So I'm going to bring this down
just a little bit more gas like this and bring it up a little bit more.
And I think that looks good.
Now notice over here under basic correction, all these settings are zero.
That's because we are editing the second Lou metric color effect, not the first,
which has already changed.
So make sure that your second the metric color effect is selected, and let's start
offsetting the darkness that is caused by this rolling flicker band.
So I'm going to bring up the exposure first of all.
Oh, look at that. We're removing a lot of that there.
OK, let's break it up pretty high to about 1.2, I'd say.
And then let's drop the contrast a little bit, too,
because there's so much contrast being added by that flicker band removing
that should help.
We're going to boost the highlights a little bit
because I'm looking at the bride's dress here and in watching how dark it is here
versus how light it is at the bottom, and I'm trying to match up those shadows.
So in this case here, I think about that.
I look good.
You want to go to extreme.
You could always tweak this later
and then let's boost the shadows a little bit here
and the whites just slightly.
And then this is also kind of washing out here.
So let's boost the saturation by about one, ten or so.
I'm going to click away here.
Like that?
Where's that van?
I don't know. I don't see it at all. Pretty cool, right?
Let's hit play now and see what happens.
OK, wait, a second, the band is back, what just happened here?
OK, last step, we need to animate this mask so that way
we can make sure that follows the rolling flicker band as it moves upward.
So I'm going to go here to let tricolor and I'm going to select the mask,
and then I'm going to click this little stopwatch here that says Mask Path,
and you're going to make sure
that whenever you do this, you're at the first frame of your clip.
Then we're going to go to the end of the clip here.
Very, very end. Very last frame.
Let's go back one.
I'm going to press left arrow to go back one frame.
So we're on the last visible frame of this clip and you can see
we have the flicker band up here at the top now because it moved upward.
So I'm going to select this mask
and I'm going to mouse over here where it turns to do a hand
click and drag upward until right about here in the middle
and we've covered up the band.
Now we have a key frame at the start and a key frame at the end of this clip.
Let's go back to the beginning.
Took away press play. Check it out.
OK, so
there still is a bit of flicker visible here,
you can see it's a little bit darker over here on this part.
So if you really wanted to fine tune you, go in and make a secondary mask
just over this part and then brighten
that up a little bit more and then animated again.
But for the sake of this considering,
I know this is going to be a very quick clip in this video
that's only on the screen for about a second.
I don't think that people are necessarily going to notice it.
And whenever you compare the before with all that gross rolling flicker
to now, dang, that's quite an improvement.
And I'm really happy with how this turned out.
And ta-da,
your video clip is now fixed and it looks significantly better than it did before.
Now, if you've not downloaded my preset for fixing these rolling
flicker bands from your footage,
you can still do so for free below and save yourself a ton of time.
Also, I'm considering making some other videos about flicker removal.
In this case, this is a very slow flicker removal with these slow rolling bands.
But if you're interested in seeing how to move faster, flicker from your videos.
Please leave me a comment and let me know.
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