Flicker removal on still photo time lapse sequence

I'm going to be shooting a time lapse of a plant growing using a sodium grow light. I know this light has a terrible flicker and I would like to remove it. I'm shooting RAW using a Canon Eos 1DS and processing the stills in Lightroom. In lightroom, it appears that I'm able to "develop" the stills with the same exposure and color settings but when I bring them into Motion of FCP the flicker is still there. Can anyone recommend a third party plugin for FCP or Motion that can remove flicker, preferably one that has a demo version that I can try out? Or can anyone recommend a different grow light to try out?
I'm working with a Mac Pro dual 3.0 GHz running the latest version of Final Cut Studio and Leopard.

SeanLegnini wrote:
Hey guys, I'm working with Jon on this project. We are shooting timelapse, as in one photo every 10 seconds. The flicker we see isnt in one photo, it's when we put all the photos together into a sequence and replay them. The problem is that picture a has a much brighter light than picture b and when you play picture a and picture b together sequentially, it creates a flicker. Filters don't seem to work and the problem with sodium lights is they dont have a set flicker frequency. Does anyone have any experience shooting with LED lights or other grow lights that have a set frequency? I think this is our only solution.
Do you have your camera set on auto?
Sodium vapor lighting strobes near but not exactly at your mains frequency, 50 or 60 Hz. All you have to do is use a shutter speed that spans a good number of impulses so they average, say, 1/2 second. You will not detect a change in exposure over a range of images. One full second would be better as it would capture between 57 and 62 pulses at 60Hz, not quite enough to significantly alter the exposure between frames when going to video's much lower grayscale range. However, what you REALLY want is a strobe that completely overpowers the ambient lighting when the shutter fires at 1/250th second.
Pulling your existing images into Photoshop and running a batch process on them to equalize the exposures is a simple and quick alternative to reshooting.
bogiesan

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I pressed play, thinking that each photo would show for 1/30th of a second, but what happened instead, stayed on the first photo, did a pan out, and then went to the next photo.
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