• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Increasing gain without increasing artifacts/grain on DV footage.

  Posted by Chris Armstrong on June 17, 2005 at 4:30 pm

  Hopefully someone can help with a dilemma I

  Don Greening replied 20 years, 11 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  Ace Billet

  June 17, 2005 at 7:43 pm

  Well I know what you mean by “artifacts”, I had this in a footage where I really pushed hard
  on the shadows, I got those ugly blocks all over the place.

  I find SA Color Finesse to be a very useful color corrector. plus you have a lot of different tools
  that FCP lacks (curves)
  It comes free with After Effects 6.5 and they also have a version for FCP.

  cheers
  ace

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  Bryce Whiteside

  June 18, 2005 at 12:25 am

  Lyric Final Cut Pro Plugins
  https://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/index.htm

  Look for Shadow-Highlight plugin filter at the bottom of the page.
  Website quote:
  “Lyric’s free Shadow-Highlight plugin filter provides functionality similar to the Highlight/Shadow function in Photoshop CS, revealing detail in under or overexposed footage by lifting shadows or reducing highlights. In the following before-and-after example, details in both the shadows and the highlights have been recovered.”

  Haven’t tried it so this isn’t an endorsement, but it is free.

  HTH,
  Bryce

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  Tony

  June 18, 2005 at 5:32 am

  Chris,

  It a real simple formula when dealing with dv and 4:1:1. GIGO (garbage in garbage out).

  One trick you can try to hide the grain is to undersaturate the image by taking down the chroma but you might find you have to suck too much out to hide the grain.

  Tony Salgado
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  Don Greening

  June 19, 2005 at 9:02 pm

  I tried the free plugin from Lyric and it works just like its description says, but it doesn’t do anything about improving picture noise/grain. But it doesn’t advertise that it fixes picture noise, either. For a freebie it’s great.

  – Don

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