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FCP’s 3-way color corrector = TOO MUCH NOISE
I’m working with some HD footage and I’m using FCP’s 3-way color corrector, but every time I change something it adds a considerable amount of noise. I went through the filters in FCP looking for a de-noise or de-grain tool, but haven’t found any. Does anyone know of a way to de-grain the footage? PS – I’m not using the Color program because I get an error message when I try opening it. Is this a better program to use and should I concentrate on fixing this instead?
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Have you rendered it and looked at it on a broadcast monitor? If not, do that and then repost.
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
Yes, it was viewed on a broadcast monitor. Thank you for responding.
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Color is a lot better and includes a filter for reducing grain. That said, you shouldn’t be getting noise when you use the 3way CC unless you are making huge changes or using grainy footage to begin with. How was it captured?
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I only notice the grain when trying to dig something out of the blacks…that will add noise. There are better color correction tools used to keep that noise down, but you will have it. Color, Colorista to name a couple.
But what are you doing? Just adding a blue tint? Or lightening the footage? Knowing what you are doing to the footage wil help.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
If you are bringing up the blacks, that will add noise.
If you are pushing the mids, that will really add noise.
Color is much cleaner at all color correction than FCP, but even there, when you bring up the blacks and mids you need to do so sparingly as those areas are the noisiest.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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colorista is a great compliment to the 3-way cc built in to fcp.
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[Chris Borjis] “colorista is a great compliment to the 3-way cc built in to fcp.”
But have they fixed the “Upgrade Memory” issue? We found that when we upgraded the plug-in from one version to the next, it lost all the color grading information. So when we retrieved a project several months after completion, we have to re-do all the color grading again from scratch.
I never heard from Red Giant on whether or not they fixed this pretty big bug, but it is a cleaner CC tool than the 3-Way.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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wow no kiddin?
They have not updated it for awhile now (about a year) and thats
the version I have.But I did hear in one of Stu’s blog’s that as of final cut 6.02 it
doesn’t clip whites anymore. I didn’t know it was an apple bug, but
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To my knowledge they have not fixed that issue. Good thing that I only colored one show with version 1, and if I need to revisit, I have a drive with FCP 5.1.4 and that version of Colorista. Not that I will ever have to.
Version 2 is solid…but yes, revisiting shows colored with V1 will cause the system to crash or lock up. Shame really.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def
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