They're more expensive and probably well within your budget if you're using a Phantom. Flicker Free will smooth out the fluctuations and make the brightness consistent throughout the video clip. This can happen regardless of whether you're shooing with a Phantom Flex, Sony FS700U or GoPro HERO3 Black (shoots 240fps). The higher the frame rate of the footage the more apparent it is. These fluctuations in brightness can affect your footage if the camera is shooting 120fps or faster. Normal lights running on AC (Alternating Current) can fluctuate in brightness as the electricity fluctuates (the 'alternating' in AC). Many lights will cause flicker in slow motion footage. Flicker Free was designed to deal with Time Lapse flicker and works beautifully on it.
This causes the camera to adjust the exposure and you get flicker. This can result in beautiful videos, but the problem is that the lighting changes.
It analyzes the frames as it's rendering so you don't have to wait around before you can get to work.Ī time lapse video requires taking a photo every 1 second or 1 hour and combining them to make the video. Just apply it to your footage, render a couple seconds as a test and you're ready to render your entire project. There's no need to re-learn complicated parameters every time you use it.įlicker Free doesn't require any 'pre-analysis' to work. It's good to know you can just pull it out of your toolbox and it'll just work. Flicker Free is a critical video plugin when you have footage with flicker problems, but hopefully you won't need all the time.
The software should be doing the hard work behind the scenes so you can get work done quickly without watching hours of training videos. Video plugins should make your life easier. Every piece of video footage is different, of course, but the types of flicker tend to be the same. At best, they'll instantly solve your flicker problems! (this happens a lot… so try one of the presets, it may be all you need to do) Otherwise, they provide a good starting point and you shouldn't need to make too many tweaks. These are settings we've found to work well in our tests. There are several presets for different types of video footage. They make it easy to get the right settings very quickly, without reading a huge manual.