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shooting in low light
When shooting in very low light and your lens is wide open and the video still looks dark, is it better to pump up the ISO and risk some grain or slow down the shutter and risk getting those warpy lines that make it look like you were shooting in a heat wave?
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Well, I’d rather push ISO and do noise reduction in post than have to deal with “ghosting”. But that’s purely a matter of personal taste and/or your skills in post-production…
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To add: noise can be tackled with various noise removing plugins, “ghosting” is something that you can’t remove successfully…
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“Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.” – Buster Keaton -
So what exactly causes ghosting? Or how best to avoid it I should ask… Thanks Peter!
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“Ghosting” is exactly what you described with “warpy lines that make it look like you were shooting in a heat wave” and is caused by slow shutterspeeds.
A general rule of thumb in video is to use shutterspeeds about twice as high as the framerate your shooting. With 24 and 25 fps it’s a shutterspeed of 50, with 30 fps it’s 60 and so on…
If you’re going higher you risk strobing, if you’re going lower your risking ghosting——————————————
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That’s what I suspected… Thank you for your helpful feedback Peter!
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You’re welcome, Silvy! Glad I helped!
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“Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.” – Buster Keaton -
Peter any suggestions for treating footage with ghosting or strobing in post?
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There’s not much you can do about that… At least I don’t know anything. Sorry!
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“Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.” – Buster Keaton
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