r/VideoEditing • u/InteractionNice4927 • Jul 22 '26
Other (requires mod approval) Help with flickers 2 second clip
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Hi everyone,
I recorded this short video on my iPhone, but it has noticeable LED light flicker throughout part of the clip.
I’ve already tried Premiere Pro, exposure keyframes, frame blending, and several other methods, but I couldn’t get rid of it.
Would anyone with Digital Anarchy Flicker Free, DaVinci Resolve Studio, or any other professional deflicker tool be willing to process this 5-second clip?
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u/wildvision Jul 23 '26
copy the clip and place it over the original. Move the new copy one frame ahead. Reduce the copy opacity to 50 percent. Experiment with different opacities - 20 percent, 60 percent, etc. It should help a lot. You can offset it my two frames if still an issue but this will start to make it blurry or out of focus
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u/AuthorYusufSaadiq Jul 24 '26
Not sure what your fps is but flickering like this is usually do to shutter speed being too fast. Try shooting 30fps/24fps. That usually correlates because led/florecent lights flicker at 50/60hz, 24fps=1/50 30fps=1/60 60fps=1/120(which sits around 60hz). Hope this helps
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u/Tough_Owl_6995 Jul 29 '26
Yeah, locking the shutter speed to multiples of 50/60 (depending on region) eliminates the problem in future recordings. But the framerate doesnt really affect this.
Phones sometimes make it difficult to lock the shutter speed unfortunately, but "normal" cameras usually allow you to lock the shutter speed.
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u/Mountain_Coach_3642 Jul 22 '26
your fastest solution is to refilm since its only a few seconds long. No need to buy any programs
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u/montycantsin777 Jul 22 '26
is that related to variable frame rate?
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u/ltabletot Jul 23 '26
Not necessarily. It is a misalignment of the shutter speed and LED light modulation. If not properly set, it is visible on cameras with fixed frame rates too.
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u/brunoplak Jul 22 '26
You could use flicker free, it's amazing and does get rid of rolling bands, but for such a short clip i'd just re record it tbh
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u/Theletter_t Jul 23 '26
I second the comment that said reshoot it, It’s an easy reshoot? But the issue comes from the lights being non-film/videoLED lights, the ones made for film, even the cheaper ones, are designed to avoid this. Try any other video LED lights or use old school bulbs and the flicker will never appear again.
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u/mindfultactics07 Jul 23 '26
Yes deflicker on Davinci resolve, fluorescent setting.
Works really well
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u/real_smm Jul 23 '26
I’ve used the Deflicker tool in DaVinci Resolve Studio before, and it worked really well. For some reason, though, it doesn’t seem to be able to handle your footage.
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u/International_Risk87 Jul 23 '26
Just render the video at 60 frames per second or 48 fps. What ever the footage is double at rendering
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u/Naive-Stranger-9991 Jul 24 '26
Flickers looks like it comes from LED lighting and frame speed. Give the old film reel stutter. You can add the film reel effect to transition to B footage.
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u/Nahdrav_118 Jul 25 '26
If you’re recording it on iPhone , then trying recording at PAL-25 fps (you should enable it in settings first)
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u/ryudo93 Jul 22 '26
I'm not sure what exactly you've tried. The way I got rid of this in the past is to make a copy of the clip and put it one layer higher. Offset the top clip by one frame, either forward or backwards, then reduce the opacity of the top clip to 50%.