Flicker Reduction - Histogram smoothing

paul-marshall wrote on 8/26/2025, 4:30 AM

Is it me or is the Vegas 22 help not much help?
I'm trying to use flicker reduction on some 8mm cine film and I want to know what histogram smoothing does. It requires running some analysis which takes a long time. I want to know what it does, how to fine tune it and if it will be worth the wait.
This is whay Vegas help tells me:

Histogram smoothing

A reduction method that smooths the histogram of the image over time to reduce flicker. It is an option under the "Reduction Mode" setting.
Thanks for that. I had kind of deduced that for myself!

Comments

Reyfox wrote on 8/26/2025, 5:34 AM

One way to find out what it does is to try it. That is what I do. I'll try different combinations and settings and go from there.

It is probably good to know the specifics of what an adjustment does, but I just want it to work.

I've tried the Flicker Control and it works pretty good! I thought that 50hz would solve the issue, but it didn't.

paul-marshall wrote on 8/26/2025, 5:48 AM

Yes that is what I will do of course. But a little more help from the help would be useful. I know Flicker Control works pretty well on a 50/60hz lighting flicker. Usually there is plenty of help to be found from users online so I wonder if the help writers are getting a bit lazy.