Fire flicker effect

[pvreditor]

I have a video clip of a woman sitting near a fireplace. Although the actual fire is not in the shot, you can see a little bit of fire flicker on the woman's face. Does VideoStudio have a filter or effect that will allow me to create more of that fire flicker? I want it to be obvious that she's sitting by a fireplace. I looked through all the filters and effects, and scoured YouTube for tutorials, but no help. The only thing I can think of is to snip the clip into hundreds of pieces and individually adjust the brightness a bit to simulate flicker. That sounds like WAY too much work.

I'm using x9 (updated to x9.5). I can upload the clip to WeTransfer if you want to experiment with it -- it's a nice quality (if a little dim) HD clip.

Any thoughts?

Bob Kovacs

[aljimenez]

You want the opposite of the flash removal filter and I don't think there is such a filter in VS. Can you add a clip of the fire at certain places of the video to get you close to what you want?

[pvreditor]

We will add a shot of a fireplace fire, just to help establish the scene. In the scene, power was lost in the tavern where the woman is sitting by the fire. A couple people approach her for a bit of conversation, and we (the director and I) want to see the fire's flicker more pronounced for that. It's a cold winter night and the only heat is the fire, so we want to make the presence of the fire more obvious.

Thanks for the response!

Bob

[asik1]

Unfortunately VS has hardly any "random" tool
So one way I can think of is if you double the shot to an overlay,
set transparency
use mask on her face
apply old movie FX with no dust or shakes just flicker
There is an advanced OLD MOVIE FX in Boris.
Another option is to play with clouds FX

[pvreditor]

Interesting ideas, asik1... thanks!

Bob