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Fix up Z1 damaged shots (auto-gain on)
A few weeks ago, some here helped me identify the problem I was having with tapes I received from a shooter from abroad (ITV’s for a short). The Z1 did was set to auto-gain (arghh…), which resulted in noise wherever lighting would drop.
I had two extra ITV’s reshot to compensate, but I still need to use some of the “noisy” shots.
My question is : what would you FCP-learned guys do with these noisy shots to try and make them usable?
I could try and “stylize” all these shots with some kind of “heavy” filters, but although I’m trying to have it make sense in the script, I’m not sure it can…
I can post a small uncompressed (or larger compressed) extract if needed.
Many TIA’s.
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3 Replies
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Make them B&W???
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adding some diffusion will help – gaussian blur if you don’t have anything else – there are a lot of plugins that do better –
lowering the pedestal to crush the blacks is recommended if a lot of the noise is in the shadows
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Thanks for that hint.
I seem to remember running acros some kind of “denoiser” plugin somewhere in the past, although “denoiser” mostly applies to an audio effect, so I’m having a hard time finding it back. Any idea?
TIA.
PS : B&W is not an option here.
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