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Flicker Free is REALLY slow in FCP X Make sure that Background Rendering and Timeline Scrubbing are turned OFF. Keep in mind that Flicker Free is requesting a lot of frames from the host app. Our de-flickering plugin is now GPU accelerated for faster render speeds! Flicker Free 2.0 fixes footage with lots of movement or moving subjects. Motion Compensation and Detect Motion make it possible to repair footage that was previously unfixable! Need more info and examples?

  1. Flicker Free is a powerful new way to deflicker video. It solves an issue that's common to anyone that does time lapse or shoots slow motion (high frame rate) video.
  2. In Final Cut Pro X 10.4.4, reduce video noise in standard and 360° video clips using built-in Noise Reduction effects. Video noise can appear in video clips recorded in low-light conditions, or in clips recorded with small image-sensor devices such as smartphones or small portable cameras.
  3. Motion Compensation: Flicker Free 2.0 uses optical flow algorithms to detect and delineate independently moving objects, even in the presence of camera motion. These integrated motion-estimation algorithms are highly effective for repairing poor quality video or footage that was previously unfixable.

In his latest software review, Oliver Peters takes a look at four different plugins from Digital Anarchy. From skin smoothing to removing flicker, each plugin in Final Cut Pro X and Motion performs a task of improving or mending video footage.

There are many reasons to add plug-ins and effects filters to your NLE, but the best reason is for video repair or enhancement. That's where Digital Anarchy's four main video plug-in products fit.

These include Beauty Box Video, Samurai Sharpen, Flicker Free, and Light Wrap Fantastic. They are compatible with a range of NLE hosts and may be purchased individually or as part of several bundles.

Digital Anarchy also offers photography filters, as well as a few free offerings, such as Ugly Box. That's an offshoot of Beauty Box, but designed to achieve the opposite effect.

Beauty Box Video

Let's face it, even the most attractive person doesn't always come across with the most pleasing appearance on camera, in spite of good make-up and lighting.

Some people simply have a skin texture, wrinkles, or blemishes that look worse on screen than face-to-face.

This is where Beauty Box comes in. It is a skin retouching plug-in that uses basic face detection to isolate the skin area within the image. The mask is based on the range between the dark and light skin colors within the image. You can adjust the colors and settings to refine the area of the mask.

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Like all skin smoothing filters, Beauty Box works by blurring the contrast within the affected area. However, it offers a nice range of control, along with GPU acceleration. If you apply the filter with a light touch, then you get a more subtle effect.

Crank it up and you'll get a result not unlike high-gloss, fashion photography with sprayed-on make-up. Both looks can be good, given the appropriate circumstance.

Unfortunately, out of the four, Beauty Box was the only one of these plug-ins that had an issue in Final Cut Pro X. The full control panel did not show up within the inspector pane. This was tested on three different Macs running Mojave, so I'm pretty sure it's a bug, which I've reported to Digital Anarchy.

Others may not run into this, but nevertheless, it worked perfectly inside Motion. While that's a nuisance, it's not a deal-breaker, given the usefulness of this filter. Simply process the clip in Motion and bring the corrected file back into Final Cut.

Samurai Sharpen

Sharpening filters work by increasing contrast around the detected edges of contrasting areas within an image. This localized contrast increase results in the perception that the image is sharper.

Taken to an extreme, it can also create a cartoon effect. Samurai Sharpen uses edge detection to create a mask for the areas to be sharpened. This mask prevents image noise from also being sharpened. The mask can be adjusted to achieve the desired effect.

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For example, the eye make-up used by most actresses provides a nice edge to which sharpening can be applied. A subtle application of the effect will result in the clip appearing to be sharper. However, you can also push the various controls to achieve a more stylized look.

Flicker Free

As the name implies Flicker Free is designed to get rid of image flicker. Typical situations where you might have image flicker include timelapse/hyperlapse clips, archival footage, strobing lights, computer and TV screens within the shot, LED displays, and the propeller shadows in drone footage.

Flicker Free does a great job of tackling these situations, but is also more processing intensive than the other three plug-ins.

All of these conditions involve some variation in exposure within the frame or from one frame to the next and that's what Flicker Free will even out. There are several pulldown presets (more than other similar plug-ins) and adjustment controls for sensitivity and frame intervals.

In a few cases, a single instance of the plug-in with one setting will not completely eliminate all of the flicker. That's when you may opt to apply a second instance of the effect in order to catch the remainder of the flicker. Each instance would use different settings so that the combination yields the desired result.

Light Wrap Fantastic

The last of these four plug-ins isn't designed for image repair, but rather enhancing chromakey composites. Whenever you composite blue-screen or green-screen shots, the trick is getting the foreground to properly blend with the background image for a composite that appears natural.

When a person stands in a natural environment, the ambient light reflected from the surroundings onto the person is visible on the edges of their image. That's how the camera lens see it. That subtle lighting artifact is called light wrap.

The foreground subject in a green-screen shoot doesn't naturally have this same ambient light wrap - or it's seen as green spill. This can be corrected through careful lighting, but such care is often not taken - especially on budget-conscious productions. Therefore, you have to add light wrap in post.

Some keyers include a built-in light wrap tool or function, while others rely on a separate light wrap filter. That's where Light Wrap Fantastic comes in. It's not a keyer by itself, but is designed to work in conjunction with a keyer as part of the effects stack applied to the foreground layer.

You can use a background color or drop the background layer into the image well, which then becomes the source for the light wrap around the foreground image. That light blends as a subtle glow around the interior edge of the subject.

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Since you want the shot to feel natural, you are generally going to want to select the background image, rather than a stock color. This has the benefit of not only looking like the same environment, but if there are lighting changes within the background image, the light wrap edge will react dynamically. The light wrap itself can be adjusted for brightness, softness, and various blend modes. These settings allow you to control the subtlety of the light wrap.

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As a group, these four plug-ins form the Anarchy Video Bundle, but you have to purchase separate bundles for each host. The Apple bundle covers Final Cut Pro X and Motion, but if you also want to use these filters in After Effects, then you'll need to also purchase the Adobe version of the bundle. Same for other host applications.

You probably won't use one of these on every session. On the other hand, when you do need to use one, it's often the kind of enhancement that can ward off a reshoot and let you save the job in post.

Oliver Peters is an experienced film and commercial editor/colorist. In addition, his tech writings appear in numerous industry magazines and websites. He may be contacted through his website at oliverpeters.com

A new plugin from Digital Anarchy for removing flicker, X2Pro from Marquis gets an update, as does Library Manager from Arctic Whiteness. We do a quick roundup of FCPX news.

If you have ever had flicker in a timelapse sequence, you'll know it can be hard to get rid of to achieve a perfectly smooth result. Digital Anarchy has released Flicker Free, which as the name suggests removes not only flicker from time-lapse sequences, but many other troublesome variable light situations.

It works by analysing the the footage and then smoothing out the luminance over multiple frames to give the video a constant brightness.

'We're extremely excited about Flicker Free.'said Jim Tierney, President of Digital Anarchy. 'We've already seen it used on some high profile broadcasts to deal with flicker problems from slow motion cameras, as well as LED lights. I think users will be pretty impressed when they see how effective it is on their footage.'

Flicker Free fixes problems on many types of video footage:

- Time lapse suffers from variation in exposures
- Archival footage flickers because of old cameras or lights
- Slow Motion (or High Speed) Video can be affected by the flickering of electric lights
- LED lights, TVs, and computer monitors cause flickering when out of sync with the camera

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The plugin (which will also work in After Effects, Premiere Pro, FCP7 as well as FCPX) is normally priced at $149, but is reduced down to $99 until March 31st.

X2Pro needs no introduction, it's the best way to get audio from Final Cut Pro X into DAWs such as Pro Tools for sweetening. A new updated version is now available.

“The latest version of X2Pro now supports OS X 10.9 Mavericks and FCP X 10.1,” confirms Simon Fearn, product manager, Marquis Broadcast. “In addition we have removed the need for user to define media locations and made further improvements to memory usage.”

X2Pro Version 2.2 is only available on the Mac App Store at £99.99/$149.99. X2ProLE is a lower cost version for those who do not need audio files referenced, media trimmed, or close control of the conversion of Roles.

One thing that again sparked our interest here was the ability of X2Pro to trim media. If they could only do that with video, then they would have a killer application for media managing. We will suggest it to them again!

Finally, the guys at Arctic Whiteness have been very busy since the launch of their application Library Manager. Not only has this application been amazing successful, the developers have taken onboard a lot of the feedback since it was first available and have now released version 1.5. Although the price has gone up to just under $10, it is still a 'no brainer' for anybody who uses FCPX.

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We are super pleased that they took us up on our idea of cataloging libraries on disks that are not currently attached.

Here are the new features:

  • FCLM now memorises the libraries that it’s seen so that it can list them even if they are currently offline or absent. This allows users to use FCLM as a cataloging system to keep track of which libraries are on which volume, even when the disks aren’t connected.
  • Individual folders can now be added to the list of sources on the left by dragging or clicking the + button. This will be particularly useful to those working in a group environment who wish to see only the libraries in their own directory on an XSAN, for example.
  • Sources that are not indexed by Spotlight can now be manually scanned for libraries.
  • The sources on the left can now be sorted manually or removed from the list.
  • It’s now possible to clean Shared Media files and Optical Flow (Stablization) data files. These columns can be displayed via the View Menu if required.
  • FCLM can now display and edit the Finder Comments for each library (the same comments that can be seen when choosing “Get Info” in the Finder).
  • Full screen mode is now supported.

There are also some minor tweaks:

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  • The first window that the user sees is no longer in French on an English system (oops!)
  • Option to show a Source in the Finder (via the context menu)
  • Option to force a manual re-scan of an Spotlight indexed volume.
  • Sources can now be unmounted directly from FCLM (via the context menu)
  • Command-clicking the source checkboxes will check/uncheck all the sources at once (like in iCal etc.)
  • An extra alert is given when deleting Optimized media files to warn the user that these files are slow to recreate and are thus best deleted at the end of the project.
  • An extra alert is given when deleting Optical Flow files to warn the user that these are slow to recreate.
  • A display issue when the system was set up to ‘always display scrollbars’ has been fixed.
  • Visual feedback is now given when dragging folders or libraries to the FCLM window.
  • When deleting the Render files waveforms and thumbnails are no longer deleted. These are small files, however they are slow to recreate, so this improves the experience when reopening the project in Final Cut.
  • FCLM used to display some older backup libraries. This has been fixed.
  • Various performance enhancements and bug fixes.

If you haven't seen Library Manager before, take a look at their mini tutorial.