Help! Serious case of the flicker!

nadia wrote on 8/24/2004, 10:12 PM

Can anyone help? I've tried everything! this has happened to me once before and i didn't catch it until it was out on a DVD, but it is doing it to me again! On the clips that i have altered (motion or effects) lines appear on the edges of a person that is moving in my clips or there are lines running through skin. This only happens when there is rapid movement from the person i shot. I tried the reduce flicker...i've tried different motion blurs...i even tried to alter the frame rate....someone please help! I am frustrated to the point of hives!

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Spot|DSE wrote on 8/24/2004, 10:33 PM

did you change your field settings from lower to upper by chance?

nadia wrote on 8/24/2004, 10:43 PM

just tried that.....still no workie

thank you for replying

Grazie wrote on 8/24/2004, 10:55 PM

"On the clips that I have altered (motion or effects) . .. " I think that is where I'd be starting my quest for a solution. In the original T/L project have you separately rendered out these effects? Yes, I know, all this should be happening. When I've had "similar" issues I've gone over the area and spent time on making sure all was right. - The other thing that springs to mind is have you "changed" the media you are burning to? Put it this way, have you always HAD success with these altered motion and the effects? Was it on different media? . . . . . Oh, another thing - Are you using an old veggie and substituting media? Are ANY of the files up on the T/L come from another source? Are you sure that originals are not corrupted? Are the field orders of the files correct to start with?

Can't think of anything else . ..

Grazie

nadia wrote on 8/24/2004, 11:40 PM

hmmmmm, i think i got it.....i had to check the reduce interlace flicker for every single clip (is there a way to do this for the entire track?) and changed field order to upper field first. I've also had trouble trying to crop an entire video track, rather than going in clip by clip...any suggestions?

thank you for all of your help by the way, wish i would've know about this forum earlier....you guys are really quick with answers :o)

Grazie wrote on 8/24/2004, 11:49 PM

Pleasure . . .SPOT is THE man! He's "forgotten" more than I will EVER know! I just swim amongst the wisdom and talent here - picking up what I've understood and when it sinks in my aging brain!

Regards - keep us posted where you get with this. - This IS the only reward we seek here - is that correct Guyz & Gals?

Grazie

farss wrote on 8/25/2004, 5:53 AM

Grazie,
I agree, nothing more frustrating than those posts that sort of go "URGENT HELP PLEASE OR I'LL DIE" and there's about 20 replies and lots of good suggestions and never a work back from the original poster, maybe we were too late, maybe they died?

Bob.

Grazie wrote on 8/25/2004, 6:08 AM

Bob,

Yeah! . .TRUE, true , true . .. I gotta a SCART/ACEDVio plumbing/connecting problem. Yah wanna do it "Off-World" ? Grazie

rs170a wrote on 8/25/2004, 11:54 AM

is there a way to reduce interlace flicker for every single clip or crop an entire video track

For flicker, right-click the first clip, choose "Select Events to End" followed by "Switches > Reduce Interlace Flicker".
For cropping, double-click the first clip (to avoid keyframe issues), select Pan/Crop and tweak as desired. Exit Pan/Crop, right-click the clip and select Copy. Right-click again and choose "Select Events to End". Right-click one last time and choose "Paste Event Attributes".

If someone has a faster way of doing this, I'm listening (so to speak).

Mike

nadia wrote on 8/26/2004, 4:16 PM

thanks guys....i really really appreciate it! everything worked! wooooo-hoooooo...thank you thank you thank you :o)

Grazie wrote on 8/26/2004, 9:15 PM

Nadia . ., "everything worked! . . " yes, but what exactly? - G

Skywatcher wrote on 8/26/2004, 9:34 PM

I had that exact same problem. Because I was using an ATI capture card at the time, one of the Genius' in here told me that ATI captures field order "backwards". Once I switched the field order...all was in harmony and the sun shined again. I even think I heard birds singing...

Skywatcher

musman wrote on 8/26/2004, 11:51 PM

So this little trick )reverse field order, and select reduce interlace flicker) is a good way to get rid of the jaggies? That would be huge.

nadia wrote on 8/27/2004, 2:43 AM

HMMMM, okay...so i did the switch from lower field to upper field, then clicked all of my clips to less flicker...that works well, although there are still a few bugs buzzing around certain clips.....then i tried the crop the entire track rather than go clip by clip (mind you i've got over 40 clips already done) well, that one is not working so well for me, it will crop everything, but it takes out any motion that i have done with any of the clips...does anyone know a different way to crop an entire track? Basically why i'm doing this, is i like the style of letterbox without stretching my original clips....i always shoot with a letterbox in my camera, knowing that i'll crop it later, but i can't seem to figure out how to crop everything at one time...any suggestions?
thank you by the way :o)
--nadia