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Keylight Hair Noise
I know this might have been addressed before on this forum, but i read most of the threads , and none of the solutions helped me, If anyone can let me know what is the best way to fix this problem let me know , thank you ..
here’s a snapshot of the video
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What solutions did you already try?
Have you tried temporal noise reduction?
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I did try that , didn’t work out well, and it’s not a one time problem, I produce a lot of online videos, but they mostly have the same issue on different levels..
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Then it might go back to what camera and format you are using to shoot the footage. And there’s plenty that can go wrong at earlier stages of the production particularly in the lighting department. But the issue doesn’t look that bad to me, all I see a fast jitter that shouldn’t be there. I wonder if you could fix that with Deflicker as a post-key effect.
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I thought it so I tried it. It does calm the edges down considerably. See what you think.
10356_testdeflicker1080pmbr.mp4.zip
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yes i am still using Low budget cameras, but they are working fine. because I have good lighting, but the only thing missing is a back light or a head light in a three point lighting, so i have only the key 800w and the fill light, and two kinos for my green screen…
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thanks 🙂 yea I guess it helped a little bit, I know it’s not much of a noise, as more of a flickering on the edges, but I want to get rid of them for good, that’s why i want to know the source of my problem, and it’s aching my head
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I also tried the remove grain effect, and I manually sampled the boxes, but after I add this effect, it helped but it takes so much time to render! so much !
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Then I’m fairly certain it is the camera’s compression and/or sharpening method that causes the issue. For instance, some cameras that are both still and video read every third row for the video so small details like hair simply disappear and reappear depending on whether they hit the “video” pixel row or not. But I’ve had good results with temporal noise reduction (applied before keylight) when shooting with 8-bit compressed formats. It does slow things down massively, so running it on long pieces of footage is far from ideal. Best cure for more expedient a workflow is to get a camera that can shoot Prores HQ or RAW, if you ask me.
Other options for handling without additional expense exist, among them:
– A different background (darker in this case) against which the flickering is not as obvious
– Minimizing the flyaways in the hair of the talent — before shooting, that is
– Blowing the flyaways out with a more aggressive key as opposed to trying to capture every hair. You see this all the time even in high-end productions. Although it may look bad to the trained eye, the general audience probably won’t notice a thing. And it is definitely less distracting than flickering edges. -
that’s some valuable information here, thanks a lot for your time, especially that It took me a lot of time to find something on the internet about this matter, maybe since I have a trained eye now, and since we all videographers have a perfectionism problem 🙂 I am currently using DSLR cameras, which i am sure they are highly compressed, and with a color profile 4:4:1.
may i ask for a couple camera/camcorders suggestions which has 4:4:2 color profile or Prores HQ? which aren’t massively expensive, I heard the black magic cinema pocket camera records in 4:4:2 and Prores, would you recommend it for Green Chroma? knowing that my video production is basically music education videos, not a lot of movement.
I will certainly try one of the points you gave which can handle the flickering edges, or make them less obvious.
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Hi Dave, I have managed to pull a good key, but my only problem is with the noise I get on the edges, and I thought there some way to go behind it without buying a high budget camera, i’m working in a startup company in Jordan, we produce music online courses, but I can’t yet afford a high budget camcorder, at the moment I am using a three point lighting, the only thing I am missing is a back light to light the presenter from the back, the rest of my lighting is good, and I was wondering if a back light would change the whole noise thing, I know now it’s also an issue with the camera as well, as high compressed videos that shoot lower than 4:4:2 color profile can have this issue with green chroma
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