"Shimmering" pixels with TIFF files w/"Ken Burns" effect

Are there existing plug-ins/filters which can take the "shimmer" out of pixels when I apply motion to TIFF stills imported into FCP? I have tried de-interlace filter with only limited success.

Anything better on the market???

Hey! I do a lot of this stuff, try this:
Select the clip (picture) you want, go to the effects and apply Gaussian Blurr on the picture.
It will probably default to the value of "2". Change the value to 0.66 or any value under "1" (usually for me I use from 0.25 to 0.75)(you have to type tis values since the range goes: 1,2,3,4,5,6.... you want zero point something.
This mild blurr will smooth your picture and all the jaggy, specs and "high definition" from a 300 dpi scan will dissapear.
Let me know if it work...
Good Luck!

Daniel Postan
www.televisionworks.net



Televisionworks

De-interlace won't accomplish anything on images from a still camera because they were never interlaced in the first place (as a freeze frame from video would be). Sometimes the "Flicker" filter will help your problem.

Daniel's advice is good but it can be render intensive. What I've found to be very effictive is to use the "deflickerator" action in Photoshop on the images before bringing them into FCP. It applies some blur and a little offset in the image to reduce the shimmer in images that have fine detail.

The Deflickerator is free and available from several sources, just Google it. After downloading, just double-click it and it will install itself into PS. This assumes you have Photoshop, of course.

Scott