Jan
Surely more than one of us has been impressed after seeing a good material recorded in high speed or with the well-known timelapse photographic technique. However, the result of this type of recording is not always good due to the appearance of artifacts and flickering in the image.
Regardless of the shooting location, artificial lights can cause these kinds of unwanted effects, especially now that cameras are increasingly capable of capturing higher frame rates. Normally, fixing this could take hours of matte generation and adjustments by hand; but nowadays there are plugins such as RE:Vision Effects that do the job for us.
This effects developer has just released DE:Flicker for Adobe After Effects, a collection of three plug-ins designed to fix these bugs and smooth out the flicker of HFR (High Frame Rate) and timelapse recordings.
Not only does it fix the problem of artificial light sources, but it can do so on multiple objects even flicking at different speeds.
As for timelapse, DE:Flicker is able to eliminate common problems such as color changes, exposure, clouds casting shadows on different locations and objects appearing and disappearing from one frame to another.
Tutorial: Introduction of DE:Flicker for High Speed
Tutorial: Introduction of DE:Flicker for Timelapse
In the collection you will find a plugin dedicated to HFR material, another one to timelapse, and a third one that analyzes and stabilizes color and luminance levels. The latter can be applied before more specific processing with either of the other two effects.
DE:Flicker is priced at $249.95, but until January 31 you can purchase it for $199.95. It works on CS5, CS5.5, CS6 and CC versions of After Effects.
In this link you can download the free trial version for Mac and Windows.
Are you After Effects users? On February 15 there will be a specialized course on Mocha AE, the rotoscoping and planar tracking tool. Don’t miss it!
