Beauty Box 6.5 introduces new facial spline capabilities that turn AI face-tracking data into editable After Effects masks. Let’s take a look at what makes facial splines different and how you can use them in your After Effects workflow.
How to Deactivate Your Plugin License
Trying to activate your plugin on a third machine? Learn how to deactivate your license from old computers so that it can be used on a new one in this step-by-step tutorial.
Adobe Premiere Pro’s AI Assistant + Beauty Box: Prompts to Try
Adobe Premiere Pro’s new AI Assistant is now in the BETA version of the software! It promises to not only organize your footage, but also to speed up editing but how well so… We got curious and decided to test if it works with third-party plugins!
A Video Retiming Workaround for Fixing Difficult Flicker
We recently came across an interesting discussion on the Blackmagic Design forum about a clip with a particularly stubborn flicker problem. Instead of trying to remove the flicker directly, the editor used retiming to effectively collapse the flicker cycle. The workflow was pretty simple!
Transcriptive End of Life: Web Services Will be Ending in May, 2026
After many great years helping editors work faster and more efficiently, we’ve made the tough decision to discontinue Transcriptive and its related products on May 1st, 2026 — The products affected are Transcriptive Rough Cutter, PowerSearch, the Transcriptive Web App, and Eff-it.
Why Flicker Can Ruin a Great Time-Lapse—and Why Flicker Free Is the Goto Plugin for Fixing It (with examples in Davinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, After Effects & Final Cut Pro)
If you’ve ever shot a sunrise, a night-to-day transition, a cityscape, or anything lit by inconsistent sources, you’ve probably encountered flicker. And if you’ve tried to fix it manually, you know how frustrating (or impossible) that can be.
Flicker Free was originally developed to fix Time Lapse videos. As such, it does a great job deflickering time lapse. It’s as easy as selecting a preset!
Deflickering Videos with Rolling Bands Caused by Light Problems – often LEDs (with examples in Davinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, After Effects & Final Cut Pro)
One common type of flicker in video footage is rolling bands caused by lights being out of sync with the camera. This can be caused by shooting NTSC footage in Europe (for example) but most commonly it’s caused by LED lights.
It’s the most common type of video flicker that we get asked about. So in this post I’ll discuss using Flicker Free to deflicker the rolling bands in a variety of footage..
Removing Flicker from Slow Motion Video Footage (with examples in Davinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, After Effects & Final Cut Pro)
Video shot in slow motion often have problems with flicker. It’s common that light fluctuations that you can’t see with the naked eye show up when shot at high frame rates (slomo) like 240fps or 480 or even higher. The lights may be of poor quality or the electrical current may fluctuate more than normal and the resulting video will need to be deflickered.
So we get asked a lot about how to fix flicker in slow motion footage. In this post I’ll discuss using Flicker Free to deflicker the video.
A Green Light on “Fixing It in Post”: The Filmmaker’s Secret Weapon
When I was in film school, fixing video in post-production was barely an option—especially for documentary or reality-based content. Using post tools wasn’t well regarded by our teachers, and we didn’t have access to advanced software or the budget to pay for plugins.
Beauty Box 6.0: Digital Makeup with AI Shine Removal for Video Production
Beauty Box 6.0 is finally here with a new plugin that uses our new A.I. suite to do Shine Removal!
What is New in The Flicker Free 3.0 Plugin
The main change to Flicker Free 3.0, Digital Anarchy’s plugin to de-flicker rolling bands and other flicker problems, is adjusting the algorithm to deal with a wider time range.
Digital Anarchy’s Schedule of Presentations at NAMM 2025
We’re talking about video production at NAMM! I know, kinda crazy. Who does that? But we’re doing it… going talk about a lot of different aspects of creating videos for music. Mainly we’ll be talking about music videos but will touch on creating for YouTube and filming concerts. Here’s the list so far. This may change a little as we get closer to the event. Keep any eye on this page for any changes! 12pm: Video editing: music videos from storyboards to final edit with Neil Cabana from Dog & King Creative 1pm: Creating your band’s story/aesthetic in video(with Magarita Monet, EdgeOfParadiseBand.com and Angela LaFlamme, AngelaLaflamme.com) 2pm: YouTube lighting and filming tips – Nicki Sun, nickisun.com 4pm: Retouching Video : make everyone look good! with Jim Tierney, President of Digital Anarchy — Presenter Bios — Neil Cabana, Dog & King Creative: With over 20 years of experience as a multimedia producer and musician, Neil Cabana has led a long, incredibly diverse creative life. He learned photography and lighting from well-known fashion photographer Tom Concordia, and after moving to Toronto, became the Co-Creative Director for Fjord Interactive, part of a huge agency called Cossette Communications, where he took the agency’s biggest client, Bell, under his wings and contributed to several other Fortune 500 brands. That experience, combined with Neils’s passion for photography, video and multimedia content creation, led him to start Dog and King, which is now a thriving creative agency that offers comprehensive music, entertainment, and strategic marketing services. Maragita Monet, Lead Singer for Edge of Paradise: is an American singer, pianist, composer, and actress. She is the founder and lead vocalist for the band Edge of Paradise. She is known for her powerful voice and incredible range. Margarita is also a talented visual artist and creates most of the visuals for the band. Angela LaFlamme, AngelaLaFlamme.com: Angela LaFlamme heads up a six-piece band from San Francisco that deftly re-imagines some of our favorite music from ’20s through the ’00s into her own swinging sound. Drawing on favorites from Billie Holiday to Tom Waits, the Cure to Count Basie, and also iher own original material, this sextet embodies more than just a retro jukebox, it creates a memorable live show experience. Nicki Sun, NickSun.com: Holding up to her last name, Nicki Sun is a bright, burst of sunshine and a stick of dynamite you may actually want to hold. Although categorized as a host, actress, and producer, best known for her “Now You Know” interview series, above all, she self-identifies as a creative activist who loves to share stories. When she is not entertaining live audiences, covering events as host and preditor, contributing articles to a blog or magazine, or acting in an upcoming webseries, you will find her active in her communities, supporting fellow artists, helping out on productions, Instagramming her latest foodie adventures, singing crazy harmonies with the radio, or curling up with another autobiography of someone’s inspirational journey through life.