It is a still on the timeline. I don't see an option for antiflicker. Where axactly should I right click please.
The still is an old Black and white scanned picture. A woman standing in front of a fire place. The mantle horizontal molding is flickering when I play the timeline. It is fine if I have the curser parked there.
Hope that info helps.

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Right click on the clip and choose reduce interlace flicker. You can also apply a small amount of motion blur in photoshop (angle 90, amount 1) once or twice which helps. Vegas also does this with a linear blur but in larger amounts and usually more than I want. I also recommend forcing a resample on the picture (right click on the clip) and render in the best mode. Best mode will make your picture look much better. Vegas does some of the best quality still work I've seen.

Marc

Also if you lower the res down to 655x480 that would help. If the pic isn't that res, lower the largest dimension to it's coresponding 655x480 ones (if it's wider then taller change width to 655, if it's tallwe lower height to 480). Then, increase the canvas size to 655x480.

That should help.

You can accomplish the flicker reduction without techniques such as motion blur with the following steps:

1) File->Render As the picture (or groups of pictures). Choose Custom.
2) Choose Video Rendering Quality of Best.
3) Under the Video tab, change Field Order to be Progressive only.
4) Render the photo segment to an .avi.
5) Bring the rendered .avi back into your project and put it on the timeline.
6) Right click, go to Switches, and Reduce Interlace Flicker.
7) Render again. The clip won't flicker (and any flicker you do see even happens in applications like After Effects).

As I was helping on a video, we beat ourselves up trying to get the flicker to go away. After Effects rendered out .avi files that, when the Reduce Interlace Flicker was applied, looked perfect on the television. In order to mirror the same behavior, the video quality must be best, and the field order must be progressive. The DV format can't really play back progressive material, but without the progressive field ordering attribute set, your photos will flicker.

This worked fantastic for me, and I hope it helps you. My only wish would be for a Vegas patch to treat still photo interlace flicker as the combination of the steps above, so there doesn't have to be so many steps in order to create a great looking, flicker free, still picture video.

Thanks,
Josh