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Fix a single-frame brightness drop

I was wondering if some of you wizards have any suggestion how I could address a particular issue I keep running in frequently in my recent project.

Every once in a while, I have a single frame in a shot where the brightness drops for some unknown reason. It's normal brightness, then it becomes darker for one frame, and the next frame is normal again.

I was wondering what the best way would be to address an issue like this. I looked over the DVOs, but I could not see anything that sounded suitable for this particular kind of fix.

Thanks for any ideas or suggestions.

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    • Silas_Dominey
    • 7 days ago
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    I ran into something similar to this on a project last year, it happened on splices, and it was THE major issue that added a bunch of hours to the project.

     

    The issue you might find is that Global DVO Flicker (which you might think is well suited to this) reacts poorly to these kind of drops. It overcompensates and you see the exposure kind of "bounce" back in the other direction.

     

    I generally ended up approaching it by keyframing an offset adjustment underneath my usual DVO Flicker. Just manually bringing it into a range that the effect can handle.

     

    The other thing that works (depending on how much motion is going on and how of a purist you are!) is the Frame tool. If it's genuinely just one frame, just get rid of it!

     

    As an aside, I just got the e-mail that Filmworkz is shutting down this forum. Frankly, that decision sucks. It's hard enough to find advice for these kind of niche restoration problems (and no, an AI bot is not gonna cut it). Guess I'll try and be active in the LGG restoration forum instead.

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