Getting Rid Of Flicker Using After Effects CS5.5

Question

I captured an 8mm Film by projecting the image into a 3CCD camera, then downloading the image into my computer. Then I used Pinncle Utlimate to convert the file to DVD.  However when I play the file there is a lot of flicker.  I believe this is because of the difference in the shutter rate between the 8mm film and the digital file.  I used the 1/60  for the shutter setting which is the lowest I could get on the camera. I thought I could solve this problem by loading the file into adobe After Effects CS5.5.  I cannot find any setting in the program to solve this flicker problem.  Does anyone know if this can be done??

Answer 1

The flicker is caused by the frame rate mismatch between the projector and the video camera. To successfully transfer film to video you need to have control over the speed of the projector. Depending on the shot you may be able to fix it a bit using Auto Color, Auto Levels, or Auto Contrast effects from the Color Correction section. I'd start off with Auto Levels. If that doesn't work try Auto Color. There are Temporal Smoothing settings that may improve things a bit and Auto Color also has Scene detection which may be useful.
Depending on the shot, you may be able to use Color Stabilizer, but if the camera is moving or there's a bunch of movement in the scene you'll have to animate the Black Point and White Point.