Digital Anarchy’s Flicker Free plug-in handles more scenarios with v3.0, while the new Premiere Pro Eff-It! plug-in automatically bleeps out swear words.
Since its launch, Flicker Free has been a mightily useful tool for videographers and video editors looking to fix problems with flicker caused by lights and cameras being out of sync, drone footage, time lapses and slow motion video. Flicker Free v3.0 introduces a new algorithm that fixes an even wider range of problems, particularly slower moving bands caused by LED lights.
LED lighting systems can be out of sync with the camera causing ‘rolling bands,’ which can move at different speeds, from very slow to fast. Slower bands are particularly a problem. By analyzing a wider range of frames with improved motion detection, Flicker Free 3.0 can identify these bands more accurately and fix or improve more footage that is affected by these bands.
The software is also beneficial for fixing other types of flicker, such as flicker encountered when shooting very high frame rate video (i.e. 1000fps or higher). In this case, the light changes very slowly over time as the video is slowed by a factor of 10, 20 or more. The flicker happens in slow motion just as everything else in the video. The ability to analyze a longer time period is critical for this type of flicker removal. Flicker Free also works well on other types of flicker, such as flicker that results from time lapse video - Flicker Free was, in fact, originally developed to solve this issue - as well as flicker caused by international variations in electricity, fluorescent lights, stage lighting, and more.
Flicker Free v3.0’s improved motion detection uses its own proprietary optical flow algorithms to detect and delineate independently moving objects, even in the presence of camera motion. For shots with a moving camera or a lot of movement in the video, these integrated motion-estimation algorithms are highly effective for repairing poor quality video or footage that was previously unfixable. Since Flicker Free 3.0 can now analyze eight seconds of video around a given frame, the motion detection is even more important. This is a significant leap from earlier versions which could only analyze 0.9 seconds.
Eff-It!
A new plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro editors, Eff-It! allows users to automatically bleep curse words from clips or sequences that have transcripts. Appearing as a panel in the Premiere Pro interface, Eff-It! allows Premiere editors to import existing transcripts or transcribe videos with a Transcriptive account, then ask Eff-It! to bleep the sequence or clip based on an auto detected or custom flagged keywords list.
Of benefit to residents of Scunthorpe and elsewhere, words can be added or removed from the Flagged Words list of each bleeped clip or sequence, allowing users to remove words they do not want to bleep or add words that were not automatically identified but should be bleeped.
In the following video, the company uses it to bleep out its VP of Cuteness, Molotov Cupcake. As you can hear, she's rather demanding in the morning and they've translated her meows for you. (And yes, they say, her meows really are that loud)
Pricing and availability
Flicker Free v3.0 is available immediately and is priced at $199. The upgrade price for existing Flicker Free customers is $99. EFF-IT! is available as a Stand Alone license ($99) or part of the Anarchy Cloud Yearly subscription, which starts at $149