best flickering reduction/removal plugin for Vegas

marcinzm wrote on 8/16/2022, 1:12 PM

Hello,

Can you share with me the best flickering reduction/removal plugin for Vegas? This built in Vegas is not good as I'd like it to be.
I was videoshooting a wedding, and even I had good shutter speed, the flickering was shown on the video.

I don`t know what caused the issue. Could be cheap LED lights? Can you write me what could cause this filckering effect on raw videos?

Can you write me how to successfuly remove the flickering effect from raw video without blurring effect? Are there any free plugins for it which cause do the great job?

I have Vegas Pro 20 on Windows 10 Home.

Regards

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RedRob-CandlelightProdctns wrote on 8/18/2022, 8:59 PM

I downloaded and tried Revision FX Deflicker today for my stage footage where the LEDs were horribly flickering particularly when not at full intensity and when the UV light was used. (often)

NeatVideo still does the best job in my assessment (highest quality and decent performance).

In a few clips NeatVideo didn't get rid of the flicker. Neither did Revision FX Deflicker. (although I admit, there were lots of options I could play with in Revision's tool, and I didn't have time to experiment more with it)

I ended up layering two tools together -- NeatVideo cleaned some noise and took care of some of it, then I added BorisFX's DeFlicker" using temporal RGB, and brought down color that I knew wasn't relevant (e.g. green). The result was pretty incredible!

Just sharing my experience -- I was prepared to buy Deflicker if needed but it didn't work out for me and the others worked very very well. Glad to see we have a robust arsenal of tools to choose from!!

marcinzm wrote on 8/19/2022, 1:01 AM

@RedRob-CandlelightProdctns Can you paste a screenshot of settings you used in NeatVideo. I also have NeatVideo, but I didn`t test it out with flickering issue. Maybe I should do another test.

marcinzm wrote on 8/19/2022, 1:23 AM

@Former user I will comment later, because now I do tests with NeatNoise plugin.

marcinzm wrote on 8/19/2022, 1:26 AM

@RedRob-CandlelightProdctns I was watching a video , but I have later version of Neat Video which the options of flickering fix are much simplified. I only tick the flickering checkbox option, like this:

and I start rendering. Previously, of course, I built noise profile.

marcinzm wrote on 8/19/2022, 2:12 AM

@RedRob-CandlelightProdctns I think I will break the rendering process of NeatVideo flickering apply, because rendering of 18 minutes video file is going to finish after 18 hours. The video I want to render the most (which has bigger flickering issues) is 44 minutes, so the rendering of this file should take more than 40 hours, which is not acceptable for me.

Reyfox wrote on 8/19/2022, 2:48 AM

@Former user, I tried flicker free and it crashed every time in VP19. So I tried it in VP18 with the same result. It did work in Resolve Studio, and while slow (not close to an hour), the results weren't as good as what @marcinzm used and presented in the final render.

Former user wrote on 8/19/2022, 7:33 AM

@Former user Today I do some other tests.

1) Firsty, I rendered raw video with the these plugins I mentioned one of the previous posts, but without Revision FX Deflicker. The result video was 18 minutes

2) Then I import the result 18 minutes video file from 1) and apply only Reivison FX Deflicker and the rendering took more 3 hours

I can add that I rendered 1) to HEVC 4K but most of the the raw partial videos file was 4:4:2 10bits LOG 200 Mbps bitrate, so the result video file from 1) has much lower bitrate than 200 Mbps.

@marcinzm Thanks for sharing, I've been reading but sorry i've been busy ..👍

RedRob-CandlelightProdctns wrote on 8/19/2022, 10:57 AM

@RedRob-CandlelightProdctns I think I will break the rendering process of NeatVideo flickering apply, because rendering of 18 minutes video file is going to finish after 18 hours. The video I want to render the most (which has bigger flickering issues) is 44 minutes, so the rendering of this file should take more than 40 hours, which is not acceptable for me.

WOW that's long!

I applied NeatVideo and DeFlicker'd 100% of the clips in a 1.5 hour show I just rendered overnight. Render was done in about 9 hours.

I rendered using Magix AVC, 1080p 16Mbps, on a machine that's a few years old -- Core i7-7700K @ 4.2GHz, 32 GB RAM, Vegas 20, Radeon RX0470 and Intel HD Graphics 630 on-board.

RedRob-CandlelightProdctns wrote on 8/19/2022, 10:58 AM

@RedRob-CandlelightProdctns I was watching a video , but I have later version of Neat Video which the options of flickering fix are much simplified. I only tick the flickering checkbox option, like this:

and I start rendering. Previously, of course, I built noise profile.

Rendering right now.. will grab a screen-shot in a bit.. using the latest version of Neat Video .. I wonder if you need to click to enable the "advanced options".. I definitely have more options and tools than you're seeing.