Help!: Grainy Music video footage

[Walter Biscardi]

Not a whole lot can rid of the grain except maybe a daVinci or Final Touch HD and those will essentially blur the grain giving your video an overall soft appearance. Sounds like they turned the gain way up on the camera.

My advice is to exploit the grain, go black and white on that camera and potentially add some light effects, glows or some other stuff from the Boris Continuum filter set. If it’s a music video, pretty much anything goes anyway.

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[Antonbradley]

Thanks Walter, yeah it’s going to be difficult to cut from and to the 2nd camera because of the difference in sharpness etc. (and I don’t want to add grain to the good footage) – Any advice with that?

Thanks

[Rcpics]

You really might be better off adding the grain to the oter footage to at least have things more consistent across the board. Or, if you are going to switch back and forth, come up with a rhythm that will accentuate that so that the ‘jarring’ changes will be the norm.