- Hey it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video.
In this video, we're going to be talking about
how are can reduce or dramatically remove the flickering
from any of your video files.
So the flickering may come in if you're doing a time lapse
and you've got your exposure set to auto,
so as the scene gets lighter or darker
then you’ve got some sort of flickering in there
as the light changes and the camera adjusts for it.
Or it'll also help you reduce any flickering
from filming your computer screens or projector screens
where you've got sort of the bands that roll up.
Or if you're doing any filming and your shutter speed
or your frame rate doesn't match the lighting equipment,
the LED lights you're using,
then you'll also get the flickering
and the bands rolling through your video.
So we're going to cover in this video how you can remove
or at least dramatically reduce
that effect in your video files.
So the plug-in that we're talking
about here is called Flicker Free,
and it's by a company called Digital Anarchy.
Now, these guys have really covered all the bases
because the plug-in is supported by DaVinci Resolve,
Avid, Premier, Final Cut, After Effects.
So really no matter what platform you're using,
there should be something there
where you can utilize this plug-in.
Now, the plug-in sells for $149 US
they do offer a 30 day trial version of the plug-in as well.
So that way you get to actually test it with your footage
to make sure that it's going to repair or fix your footage
before you run out and buy it.
But personally, I think that at that $149 price point
it becomes a no-brainer when you see
how powerful the plug-in is.
I've actually been using it quite a bit lately
to repair a lot of my clients' footage
where they been using their smart phones
to record the video files, so they're recording
at a different frame rate or different frequency
to the lights that they're using.
So they're getting a flicker through in their videos.
And the results have been awesome.
We're gonna jump across now into Final Cut Pro
where we've got the Flicker Free plug-in installed,
and we're going to run you through an example.
Okay, so here we are in Final Cut.
You're probably wondering "why the
hell do I have two microphones on?"
We're just doing a quick mic test
between the Boya BY-M1 and the RØDE smartLav
which is a video will be posting soon.
But what we thought we would do it the same time
was to create some flicker video to show you an example.
Now if I hit play now, you'll see
that there's flickering here on my shirt,
a little bit here on my forehead.
And so how he created the flicker,
which is normally something you don't want to do,
is that we have our lights
which in Australia flicker at 50 Hz
which means that we normally should be
using 25 frames per second to shoot our video
with a shutter speed to match.
So 50 Hz for lights, one 50th of a second,
or setting our shutter to 50 would normally eliminate that.
So basically we set our camera settings to match US regions,
so 30 frames per second, a one on 60 shutter speed,
where it doesn't match our Australian settings
of 25 frames per second,
and 50 Hz for our lights flickering.
Then we're going to get this strobing effect.
So you can see is pretty distracting.
So, enter the plug-in.
We'll just make a short chunk of the video here
because it's a pretty long video file.
So press Command + B to cut that section there.
We can probably get rid of all the rest of it here.
Zoom in on our timeline using Command + Plus.
So this is our short clip.
Now we come down to Digital Anarchy,
click on Flicker Free and drop it on.
Now, this plug-in is pretty CPU intensive,
it does take a long time to render,
which is why it's a great idea to drop it
on a small section of your video first,
get the settings right, and then copy those settings across
to the rest of your video.
Okay, now that rendering has complete,
we'll come back to the start and press play,
and you see that even just using the default settings
all the flicker is gone.
The rest of the image looks, still,
really good quality, but the flicker's gone.
And that was just with default settings.
So if we click on this and actually come in
and have a look at settings,
you can see straight out that the preset is
just set time lapse and it's still done a really good job
at removing the flicker on my shirt and on my forehead.
So by changing this you can actually
choose rolling horizontal bands from LED lights,
which is what we were using.
There's three different settings or presets for that.
There's preset for computer monitor flicker,
archival or old footage, stage lights, slow motion,
another rolling bands preset,
and back at the top we've also got slow-motion ones as well,
and specifically anything above 960 frames per second.
Makes me really happy with the results that we got
just from using the time lapse, the default preset.
Now, really if there's nothing in the presets
that's working 100% for you,
which I'd be pretty surprised about,
then you can come down here and you can play
and move around and tweak all the settings
to really get the flicker reduction that you're after.
So just to show you the difference again,
this is with the flicker removed.
And I'll turn the plug-in off so we go back
to the original footage, and you can
see the flicker all through here.
Turn the plug-in back on, and the flicker is gone.
Let's take a quick look at another example.
Knowing that we were shooting this video this week,
Mike set up his video from last week
to have the same strobing issue as another example
to show you how awesome this plug-in is.
So here's the original now with the flicker from the lights,
and now the repaired footage with
the Flicker Free plug-in applied.
Also, if you haven't checked out Mike's video yet,
I'll put a link on screen now.
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