Blinking effect in Adobe Premier

[Tim Saunders]

Not sure if this is the best place for this, but I couldn't find a place more specific.

 

I'm doing a toon animation of a sort-of walk-through, and I want it to like like a flip book animation. I figured out how to make it just jittery enough, but now I want to ad some dark blinks between the frames.

 

I started using the Strobe Light effect, but had it flash dark instead of light, but for some reason that effect blinks like six times, takes a break, then repeats. I can't seem to make the effect constant, with no breaks.

 

Is there a better way to set this up, another effect that works better, or should I adjust some of my parameters?

 

See my Strobe Light effects settings attached.

[Tim Saunders]

Ah, never mind.

 

I ended up creating an action in Photoshop to just darken each frame a little bit, then doing a save as. Then I did an Automate-batch, and re-saved my original frames, and the darkened frames with new names. That way I could import all the new files as numbered stills. It looks perfect.

 

It's still weird that I couldn't get the strobe to do what I wanted it to do.

[mattclinch]

your strobe duration is the value in seconds that each strobe lasts - if you want every other frame i think you would divide 1 sec by half your frame rate - so for 30fps it would be 1/15 = 0.0666 or 0.07.

 

the strobe period i think is the delay between each set of strobes... so for continuous i think you set this at 0.

 

i dont have AE infront of me right this second, but i think you are going about it the best way - this is certainly how i would get this effect. good luck!

[Tim Saunders]

That's what I would have thought. When I set it to zero, I got no effect at all. Weird aye?

[mattclinch]

hmm.. perhaps set it very high - as long as your animation in seconds? might be the total period the strobe works over.