Flicker Free can remedy most types of light flicker you can ecounter in the field; strobing from slow motion or timelapse, rolling bands from LED or fluorescent lights, as well as the brightness variances seen in old archival or aerial drone footage.
Scroll down to take a look at video examples of many the different types of flicker you can fix with our powerful plugin.
If you need some footage to try Flicker Free out on, you can download this After Effects project file with original source footage. The footage is just Quicktime files and can be used in any video editing application like Final Cut, Resolve, Avid, etc. Make sure you install the Flicker Free demo!
This file includes footage showing rolling bands, slow motion flicker, and time lapse flicker. You can use the Flicker Free demo version to experiment with this footage. An After Effects project file is included for Adobe users.
Shooting slow motion can also cause flicker, as the frame rate of the video is so fast it picks up the flucuations in brightness of lights. This is particularly true of the cheaper lights found at most sporting venues, so flicker while shooting slow motion video of sports is a particular problem. Flicker Free does a great job at stabilizing the luminence and removing the flicker problems, resulting in beautiful sports footage.
This shows an example of the Flicker Free plugin deflickering old, archived footage. The plugin can be a critical tool in restoring old video. The Flicker Free plugin works in After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Resolve and other video editing applications. Download footage and Flicker Free settings.
LED lights, computer monitors, and TVs can cause a particular type of flicker that we call Rolling Bands flicker. You can see a couple examples in this video and see how well the Flicker Free plugin handles it:
With aerial drones, if the mounted camera is shot at a particular angle with regard to the sun, the propellers on the drone can cast shadows on the lens that create a unique and very annoying banding flicker. In this video, we show what this flicker looks like and what Flicker Free can do to help reduce and even eliminate the flicker entirely:
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