Brightness equalization of frames

[michael_g]

Good day community!

I just created a simple stop motion animation : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naxxtIqEPcQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Photos of each frame was taken with luminescent lamp as light source and what was my mistake : )

Now I wonder if it posible to automaticaly equalize every frames in tvp animation to reduce brightness flickering?
Or maybe there is another way to solve this issue?

Thank you for the replay!

[malcooning]

Your animation doesn't seem to suffer too much from flickering. There's only a little bit at the very beginning, and a slight flicker in the middle. But other than that it's pretty solid. I suggest you do this by hand. Just use the FX > Color > Histogram to fix the underexposed frames and you're fine.
And to answer your question, TVP doesn't have an Auto Levels function. And probably there should be. Maybe you can put this in the feature request?

One thing that is indeed noticeable in your animation is the horizontal movement of the frames. Is it intentional? If not that should be fixed, either manually or with a horizontal tracker.

[michael_g]

One thing that is indeed noticeable in your animation is the horizontal movement of the frames. Is it intentional? If not that should be fixed, either manually or with a horizontal tracker.

Thank you for suggestion! I corrected these movements with photoshop later on.

I think I need some "best practices" of lighting for shooting stop motion.
My goal is to produce relatively high quality footage to pass exam on video stock site.

Guess I just need to retake all stack with solid tripod and proper lighting.