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What is the best way to eliminate light flicker?
Film on room with lights off?
Aim lights in certain way?
Any help would be great.
Thanks.
Film at night. Wear dark clothes. SIT STILL. Manual camera settings etc blah blah.
Film at night. Wear dark clothes. SIT STILL. Manual camera settings etc blah blah.
K I wear dark clothes and don't move and have the camera on manual settings. Still get flicker.
Anyone else?
I'm assuming you have lamps lighting up your sets, not the overhead light? Make sure you have at least 2-3 lamps and try messing with how close they are to the set. A lot of people put paper over them so it softens the light, maybe try it closer with paper, further without it, etc.
Besides that, I don't really know. I use a webcam with the Webcam Settings app and 2-3 lamps, and I usually don't get light flicker since I switched to that setup. Every now and then I get really noticeable light flicker, while most of the time I don't. I'm interested to hear if anyone else has more/better ideas...
naked, covered in dark bodypaint, in the pitch black (eyes closed)
best to keep the camera under a towel, just in case
or you could like, get better, more consistent lamps and move far far away from any natural light source, plus threaten to murder anyone who tries to walk past (that's what I used to do)
I'm assuming you have lamps lighting up your sets, not the overhead light? Make sure you have at least 2-3 lamps and try messing with how close they are to the set. A lot of people put paper over them so it softens the light, maybe try it closer with paper, further without it, etc.
Besides that, I don't really know. I use a webcam with the Webcam Settings app and 2-3 lamps, and I usually don't get light flicker since I switched to that setup. Every now and then I get really noticeable light flicker, while most of the time I don't. I'm interested to hear if anyone else has more/better ideas...
Like yourself I have switched to a webcam as well.
Think I have solved it. Messed with white balance and
backlight competition. Also make sure to have MacBook on
small table away from set.
Thanks for the feedback everyone.
Also make sure to have MacBook on
small table away from set.
Yeah. I just finished animating a scene with some brand new 1x2 tranlusent bricks making a small wall. I just couldn't figure out what that wierd reflection was on the bricks..afterwards I noticed it was my computer screen 
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