Eliminating noise in the blacks

[David Roth weiss]

Here I am to the rescue again Andy…

Can you grab a frame that shows the problem well and post it here? The tools above, specifically the small icon that looks like a face with a hat, allows you to post any still image except a tiff. That would be particularly helpful, because, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

David

David Roth Weiss
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[Arnie Schlissel]

Typically you would crush out the noise by lowering the blacks all the way to zero.

Arnie
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[David Roth weiss]

[Arnie Schlissel] “Typically you would crush out the noise by lowering the blacks all the way to zero.
“

Arnie, there you go, jumping ahead, giving away my answer before I even had a chance to evaluate Andy’s black levels.

Sheesh!!! That’s New Yorkers for ya…

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Arnie Schlissel]

[David Roth Weiss] “Sheesh!!! That’s New Yorkers for ya…”

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! Now, out of my way!!

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
https://www.arniepix.com/

[Andy Morin]

Sorry David, I took a break and went to go see “The Wolfman”, regretfully.

Here’s the Jpeg. This is a totally different beast from what we were going over earlier today, I’ll show the new image from turning down the blacks.

[Andy Morin]

Here’s the new image. It’s still in the darks, but i think it might be beyond editing

thanks!

[Andrew Kimery]

You could try using a de-noise plugin from Neat Video or Graeme Nattress.

-Andrew

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Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)

[David Roth weiss]

Andy,

The problem looks to be noise from the gain being cranked in the camera rather than bad black levels.

I set the black levels properly below using the 3-Way Color Corrector and there’s only very subtle differences. There’s a ton of noise in the mids, not just the blacks.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Andy Morin]

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that’s a nice piece. This thing was a total wreck. Looks a lot better now. Thanks for the help guys.

[Andy Morin]

Also, Instead of using the NeatVideo, couldn’t i just adjust the luminance and Chroma fields?