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farss wrote on 7/14/2005, 11:58 PM
No but I'm told there's a very good deflicker filter for Virtual Dub.

I tried it once but guess what, the flicker I was trying to fix was on the film. If what you're seeing is faster than 1Hz then most likely the VD filter will fix it but in my case I suspect the flicker was due to the dodgy automatic exposure control in the Super8 camera. I never had this problem with standard 8, just some Super 8 footage and it seemed worst in the first seconds after they'd started to roll the camera.
Bob.
B.Verlik wrote on 7/15/2005, 12:52 AM
Ironically, I just went through this. I had that russian filter for Virtual Dub (MSU Deflicker) and there were no instructions. I tried a few tests with the best settings(default) and tried varying them a little, but it looked awful. I finally tried the simplest setting and then I used "Reduce Interlace Flicker" and "Force Resample", in Vegas, and I rendered a new .avi and it really made a big difference from what I had to start with. But I could still see some flickering. The S-VHS video of some old 8mm films had a pretty bad flicker and this made it look a lot better.
PS: I had no idea Virtual Dub uses 4 GB to make about 2min 15sec of DV. ( I suffer from Fat32) This was the 1st time I finally used Virtual Dub after having it for over 2 years.
farss wrote on 7/15/2005, 6:02 AM
I think by default VD renders to uncompressed but you can select other codecs. I'm certain if you do a bit of googling you'll find heaps of info and search here as well, there's some pretty avid (oops Vegas:) experts on VD and AVISynth.
Bob.
JJKizak wrote on 7/15/2005, 9:33 AM
Sometimes "reduce interlace flicker" helps a bunch in the switches.

JJK