How to FIX flickering in Stop Motion videos

[@MarlonSardini]

What an awesome hack, thanks for sharing. Not that I'll ever going to use it, as I'm not into stop motion, but still...

[@kandooi]

For sure you know MANY tricks of the trade! Thanks for sharing...never really thought of it!!!!

[@avkpictures2530]

Manual lenses plus setting white balance manually also has helped me a lot when doing stop-motion and time-lapses. Next time I will try the detached lens approach for indoors filming👍 Thanks!

[@StefanMarjoram]

I already knew this! But because of my addled brain I've just spent half a day swapping light sources and cameras trying to locate the source of the flicker. Thanks so much for the reminder :)

[@jsimes1]

Nice, my solution for stop motion is to get an old manual Nikon lens (my camera is Canon) set the aperture manually and I'm good to go. Of course I'm doing traditional character/puppet stop motion so I get the added benefit of the old lens not being super sharp which adds to the look and feel of the animation! And the old Nikon lenses are crazy inexpensive so I can get a bunch of prime focal lengths!!

[@ShaneFoley]

i totally did not expect this solution. Awesome, thank you for the priceless gold!

[@jimpurcell]

Great out of the box thinking!

[@sergiochaotik221]

REALLY!? I CAN DO THAT?? Wow, thank you Scott.

[@deformator2]

awesome hair cut

[@johannes914]

You actually can have flickering with your continuous lights. If you have cheap electronically controlled leds you may have heavy flickering. The ony way I have found to solve the issue was to have long exposures that are lower than the network frequency (50/60 Hz). Exposures of 1/15 or 1/20 worked fine.

[@joashmanning]

this would work only if there is absolutely zero ambient/natural light in the shot. and even then, there would still be variations (with cheap LEDs).

[@johannes914]

@@joashmanning experienced that when filming stop motion in a fully light tight studio.

[@brokenalgorithms4741]

If you're shooting with live view, do the aperture blades stay in place or is it simulated?

[@eddieteabagify]

Very cool. Thx

[@convolution223]

I googled and that button function doesn't appear to be a thing on the Panasonic S5 cameras. maybe it goes by another name? I know when half-pressing it sets things up for a shot so I might try that.

[@tomkent4656]

Use a manual lens?

[@gozgone]

You mentioned you had more there are few ways to solve flickering. Cracking the lens is one, do you have any other suggestions?

[@douglasbarnes456]

shooting wide open can also work.

[@brokenalgorithms4741]

He said get a manual lens.

[@gozgone]

True both of those. There is also software you can try. It’s useful to de-flicker my timelapse sequences that suffer flicker but that’s often down to changes in exposure. It would be worth trying on stop-motion clips. It’s called LRtimelapse

[@No_Plastic]

Canon body + Nikon glass! Past 20 years, no issues!

[@SinaFarhat]

Nice! :)

[@cliffiez4540]

I wish these videos would actually SHOW some of the flickering......