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Magic Bullet Denoiser II
Hello. I got the magic bullet denoiser II plug in for Adobe Premiere pro. I don’t know if I can be specific in case you don’t know, but I shoot with a Canon 7D, and I never go over an iso of 640, and I stick to 160, 320, and 640 iso as most say those are the good iso’s with the least noise. That said, I wanted to know if I should always de-noise all of my footage after I’ve put the footage together on the timeline, or do I need to really look at the clip and decide whether it needs to be denoised in the first place? I saw a comparison of the 7D and the 5D, and it seems like the 7D is a bit noisier than the 5D, but I just am not sure about whether or not I should denoise something that doesn’t have REALLY obvious noise. That’s my main issue, to try and wrap up. The scenes were pretty brightly lit, it’s not like being shot outside at night, so I’m not sure whether I should just de-noise all of the time no matter what or leave clips alone if they were well-lit and don’t have crazy obvious noise.
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If it doesn’t the viewer or it doesn’t hinder the use of special effects then it’s purely an aesthetic decision. Denoising does remove the appearance of very fine detail. Removing all noise and then adding in more consistent and pleasing grain in post can retain the feel of these “high frequencies” details.
Denoising also reduces banding and other issues when doing heavy color grading. It’s not a miracle but it can help some shots.
Angelo Lorenzo
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