Color Correcting a pulsing video

I'm working with footage that must have had a strange light around. The skin tone pulses slowly... about every 5 seconds fading from red to pale.
Any suggestion on filters that might make this less noticeable?

Sophisticated application of the 3-way will allow you to build a matte that applies the filter to only specific areas. It's not easy to grasp but the manual has everything you need to know.
The situation was caused by a metal or gas discharge luminaire that was using a 60 Htz power system and you were shooting at 1/60th-125th second. Even carefully examining a test tape might not have disclosed this weird timing artifact since you would have needed to review about 30 seconds of tape on a good monitor. But you don't want to do this again. can try to remember the lighting systems where you were shooting or go back and look at them. I often shoot under sodium vapor and some other high intensity discharge lamps in shops, garages, and plants. Wave your hand back and forth against a dark background and see if you perceive a strobe effect. If so, you must either kill those lamps or shoot at 1/30th second.
bogiesan

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