Re: Digital Flicker filters

From: Cari Machet (email suppressed)
Date: Fri May 26 2006 - 08:41:07 PDT


it might b on lime - wire
easier - better 2 get a prof. xfer

c

>From: Jeff Kreines <email suppressed>
>Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List <email suppressed>
>To: email suppressed
>Subject: Re: Digital Flicker filters
>Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 03:52:13 -0500
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>On May 26, 2006, at 3:27 AM, Clay Jiggits wrote:
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>>Is there any way to digitally reduce flicker from super 8-to-DV tranfers
>>with software/digital filters/plug-ins, etc.??
>
>There shouldn't be any flicker if they were transferred properly.
>
>If it was done with a projector and a camera, well, then you'll have
>flicker which probably affects partial frames, making it much harder to
>fix.
>
>After Effects does have some functions that help clean up flicker in time
>lapse footage, etc., and they could help. Film Fix (a plug in for AE) can
>help, but it's not inexpensive.
>
>
>__________________________________________________________________
>For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.

On 5/26/06, ben d <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> To deal with flicker from super 8 "off the wall" style transfers you can
> reduce your shutter speed to around 30fps and use a variable speed S8
> projector (Sankyo Dualax 1000 or 2000 is what i use). From that point just
> rack the speed on the projector until you hit the sweet spot where the
> flicker is minimal. Best is if you can convert your projector to run
> single
> frame without burning your film allowing you to build a modified optical
> printer where you can run stills and rephotograph them in digital as
> stills
> then build them up to 29.95fps via lunchbox, framethief or something
> similar.
> Then again the digital people have been adding flicker and scratch feature
> to their projects as a sick commodity fetishism; perhaps maximising the
> flicker is a route of resistance to the HD infection?
> ben
>
>
>
> "It is a society, and not a technique, which has made the cinema like
> this.
> It could have been historical examinations, theory, essay, memoirs. It
> could
> have been the film I am making at this moment." -Guy Debord
>
>
>
>
> >From: Jeff Kreines <email suppressed>
> >Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List <email suppressed>
> >To: email suppressed
> >Subject: Re: Digital Flicker filters
> >Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 03:52:13 -0500
> >
> >On May 26, 2006, at 3:27 AM, Clay Jiggits wrote:
> >
> >>Is there any way to digitally reduce flicker from super
> 8-to-DV tranfers
> >>with software/digital filters/plug-ins, etc.??
> >
> >There shouldn't be any flicker if they were transferred properly.
> >
> >If it was done with a projector and a camera, well, then you'll have
> >flicker which probably affects partial frames, making it much harder to
> >fix.
> >
> >After Effects does have some functions that help clean up flicker
> in time
> >lapse footage, etc., and they could help. Film Fix (a plug in for AE)
> can
> >help, but it's not inexpensive.
> >
> >
> >__________________________________________________________________
> >For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>

__________________________________________________________________
For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.