How To Remove Slow Rolling Flicker Bands in Premiere Pro

Does your video have slow rolling flicker bands messing up your footage? Here's how to remove those bands FAST in Premiere Pro!

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2:12 Step 2 - THE FIX!
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[fandralofasgard]

Matt! Could use your thoughts on the M1 Macbook Pro/video editor buyer's guide. Whatchu got??

[littlewingphotosfilm]

Thanks, Matt. And yes to seeing how you edit out faster flickers.

[jettlifeproductions]

For slower moving shots, I usually just hold alt and drag a copy of the clip above the one that needs to be corrected. I shift the top clip over by ONE frame. Change the blend mode to Screen and drop the opacity by 50%. This doesn't work for fast clips as that one frame is enough to cause some noticeable unwanted motion blur.

[akram.ibrahim]

Great tutorial! Yes, please do one for removing flicker on 24FPS :)

[davidhrzenjak]

Hey, this is off topic but what is the most storage you used for a wedding and whats the average amount? And also im curious what bitrate do you shoot and/or how many hours of footage you end up with? Thanks

Edit: i would also like to hear from the rest of you filmmakers :)

[paulgero]

thanks Matt...very helpful...and yes I would love to see more tutorials on flicker....I was shooting at a venue and got flicker even at 24!

[seriouzfilmz]

How to prevent this because I have the correct 180 shutter and still does this on a7siii 120fps is the only time it happens with certain lights

[jamesbridges]

Why not do a quick test and playback? We always shoot a test clip when doing slow motion. Here’s a quick tip. Shoot a white card, or something uniform. Pull up the waveform in a monitor, most 5” have them. Record. Playback. If you see a pulse, go into the synchro scan and adjust your shutter.

[mohamedshamheed]

Hi thank u all the way from Maldives. Speaking of the bands any tips advise on how crushed blacks can be fixed in PrPro. Thaaanks.

[flickyflicky]

I’ve found that if I change from NTSC TO PAL or vice versa the lines disappear. Also play around with frame rate. I’d rather shoot 25fps than 50fps if it removes the lines all together

[TamarackFilmCo]

Great, thank you! And yes, it never hurts to have another tool in the toolbox. Let's see that next tutorial!!!
Or, better yet, can you arrange a ban on cheap LED lights at venues?!

[defiverr]

Great solution, but what about a sequence with over 50 mins TRT? How will this work for that long a sequence?

[foxhouse_video]

We are editing wedding right now with huge fast flickering during the groom preparesю So, yes, we want to see that video as soon as posible)))

[MEBoisv]

I wish you would make a video like this for Final Cut or Davinci. I walked away from Adobe eight years ago and never looked back.

[boahandarrowsproductions]

Thank you. Going to give it a try. Have you tried this with longer footage versus a small clip being shown quickly? Thank you.

[jenellapresleyvisuals]

cover more flicker videos!! They are the death of

[GregorPQ]

Looking forward to the deflickering-video!

[ourweddingvideoguy]

.. and/or shooting to avoid the rolling bands?

[CoronadosBrickHouse]

Thanks Matt. I will remember this for next time I run across this! I usually run into faster flicker due to LED lights and shutter settings. If you want to upload a tutorial for that one I will watch lol

[chandruthangarajah]

I remember messaging you about this last year. Clutch. Thanks Matt