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Noise Filters Disappear on Quicktime Exports
Hi there. Im cutting a music video that has a few noise and static effects to create that bad tv look. Everything looks fine in final cut and in my full res outputs, but when I make a quicktime web compression, the effect is virtually gone. I suspect that quicktime is “cleaning up” the image, which is the opposite of what i want it to do. I have tried several different codecs, all with varying degrees of disappointment. I know a solution could be to exaggerate the effect in final cut so more of it comes through in the quicktime. I just want to make sure there isn’t another option, because I’d like to avoid doing two separate outputs – one for beta and one for web.
Im running final cut 7. Qt 7.6.6. on a mac pro dual core intel.
Any advice to this little conundrum would be greatly appreciated.
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1 Reply
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I’ve definitely seen the same thing occur to noisy footage I’ve worked on. A natural property of modern compression algorithms is they will “smooth out” small details and color differences to keep the data rate low.
I’d stick with h264, but you can try turning up the data rate, turning up the keyframe rate (or setting keyframes to “all” — which will cause the data rate to skyrocket).
You should also try downloading the free x264 plugin. IIRC, it has “film grain” preset that attempt to preserve grain and noise in the picture — probably worth a shot!
Hope this helps,
Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto
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