Flicker problem with shadow and highlights?

Does Premiere CS6 have the same flicker problem when using Shadow and Highlights as CS5?

Honestly, my recommendation would be to use another effect. There's usually more than one way to get the same result, and some ways work better than others.

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Flickering after adding shadow and highlight effect

I seem to be getting a flicker, in any shot that has had the shadow and highlight effect added. It is as if premiere flashes from an uneffected frame and to a frame after "correcting" with shadow and highlight. Sometimes hardly noticeable until I have "make movie" and play it as an avi.
regards

Bill Hunt wrote:
Well, as with most of the "auto" Effects, things work well, only if everything stays the same, like lighting, etc.. If one has a Clip, where lighting, exposure, white-balance, etc. changes, then the auto Effects WILL "pulse," or "strobe." It's sort of like the old days, with auto-aperture, and "seeking" for exposure.
Lock down the camera, and do not change the lighting, exposure, or white-balance, and the auto aspect of Highlight & Shadow (plus most other "auto" Effects), will work just fine.
I use Highlight & Shadow fairly often, but seldom on its "auto" adjustment - I almost always manually set the parameters manually.
Good luck,
Hunt
This thread isn't long, and clearly in the several posts above, we discuss that the bug (which Adobe refuses to fix after years of bug reports) occurs regardless of whether automatic or manual control is being used. So you are not offering a solution; Adobe needs to do that.

Shadow and Highlight Sluggish in CS6

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I have 1.33 TB free, and I alot 6205 MB to CS6, 80% of my RAM, and I don't run other programs while CS6 is up and running. My files are at 100% efficiency when Shadow and Highlight seems delayed in responding. Any idea why this
is happening or what might solve the problem?

Click on the indicators on the Histogram (those little boxes on top).

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I'm running OS 10.11 and am having some consistent problems with Mail and Safari on my MacPro Dual 2.66. Here they are:
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Scott,
I had posted earlier that I had Flash payer problems and then QuickTime and PDF preview problems too, on my Intel PowerMac. I could not figure out what the problem was, because fixing permissions and moving plugins did not work. Console indicated that the Quicktime components were not found, with the problem in a webkit pref file somewhere (nil field value). Anyway, I bailed and reinstalled Leopard from a 10.5.0 DVD, and then updated using the combo updater to 10.5.3. Everything worked. Then, after the 'Java for Mac OSX 10.5 Update 1', it all broke again. This time, repairing permissions resulted in:
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User differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.4.2/Libraries/classlist" , should be 0, user is 95.
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Shadows and Highlights, 101

I've just started working with illustrator and I'm trying to find the best tools for building shadows and highlights in 2d drawings.
So far, it looks like the best way to approach this is with a series of Opacity masks. Using multiple pieces as overlays to highlight and shade the primary object.
I also like the effects of smooth color blending, but I can't see how to blend multiple highlights and shadows into a single object with precision.
As far as the gradient mesh tool goes, it seems to be the wrong effect for 2d designs.
Can someone give me a leg up?
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Shadow and highlight clipping

Over the past few weeks I have noticed something with correcting shadow and highlight clipping in LR 5.7 and 5.7.1 I was not aware of and would like some opinions.
In one sentence, it appears that there is highlight clipping both in the White and Highlight portion of the histogram and shadow clipping in the Shadows and Blacks portion of the histogram. Up until recently I had assumed that if I wanted to globally recover highlights, I had to bring the Whites down. However, I have now seem quite a few photos, taken with different cameras (all Nikon), where the highlight clipping warning only went away after reducing the Highlights by -5.

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6. The Blacks control sets the black clipping point, which you can see by holding down the ALT key as you move the slider. Adjust it to the point where you see clipping appear with the ALT key.
7. Now go back and adjust the Contrast control to establish the best midtone contrast.
8. Lastly touch-up the Exposure control for the best midtone brightness.
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[svn:fx-trunk] 8452: - Fix flicker problem with constraint bound text that is being autoSized.

Revision: 8452
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-07-08 08:38:32 -0700 (Wed, 08 Jul 2009)
Log Message:
- Fix flicker problem with constraint bound text that is being autoSized. If the remeasure is done in a 2nd pass you will see a flicker as all the objects are moved to accommodate the reflowed text.
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Odd difference between shadow and highlight clipping

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import java.awt.Cursor;
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