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film grain reduction
I need to grain reduce and sharpen several hours of 16mm material telecined to HD Cam SR. I have it now as files in pro-Res 4:2:2HQ. I understand that this will be very very long process.
I previously used Commotion and Grain Surgery plugin for grain reduction ino NTSC. It was slow but looked very good. Now I need to to do High Def.
Commotion won’t load into Mac’s current OS. I tried to grain reduce using Compressor and with Photo Shop CS3 extened with very limited effectiveness. I can work either on a PC or Mac.
What is the best quality approach? As a plugin to FC, do in Photoshop, in AF? External program like Magic Bullet or Scratch?
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[Ted Joyce] “Scratch?”
if you have access to a Scratch System that would by far give you the best and fastest result.
gary adcock
Studio37
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bogiesan
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I don’t see anything about grain reduction in Scratch. For just grain reduction & possibly some manual dirt removal could I get along with Scratch 3.5? It seems to be available on the web for under $50. I already have an HD8200 workstation and drives which seem to be qualified. Do you think that would work?
Scratch looks similar to Color, but I’ve not heard Color specifically does film grain reduction and sharpening. I believe can reduce grain and noise by bluring the red & blue channels which are not strong enough reduction.
PS I guess David Boogie is suggesting his free plugins. Not sure how they stack up against Scratch.
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