Fixing grain footage in Vegas

[Mike Kujbida]

Neat Video is the tool most often recommended for doing this.
Be advised that it’s a real render time hog 🙁
https://www.neatvideo.com/

[Steve Rhoden]

Neat video is also my high recommendation….But Mike, the
recent 3.1 version renders a lot faster, its not a render
time hog as before.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

[Nigel O’neill]

Scotty

Neat Video is certainly the solution I would use as suggested by Mike, but be aware it can soften images and give males sporting a five a clock shadow (from not shaving) a Fred Flintstone-esque appearance.

If you are delivering to DVD, you may find the render process might eliminate some of the gain noise without having to use NeatVideo. My last wedding was shot under dim light conditions and looked awful on the time line, but when I rendered it out and crunched it down to DVD, it did not look all that bad. Give it a try.

As a tip in future (for manually operating your FX7), you might want to limit the max gain to 18dB (I think it goes to 36dB by default) for the High setting, and you could try reducing the shutter to 25 instead of 50 (I use PAL, I don’t know what it is for NTSC), but we aware that lots of motion will translate to a strobing effect, so use it carefully. I had to slow the shutter in a low-light situation where there was a soloist performing, but who was not moving much at all. It turned out great.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6