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  • Reducing noise in an image

    Posted by Mack Mclaughlin on May 22, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    I have some super 8 footage that I am editing in FCPX and have a portion of the image that has a burn where the film was discolored as it went through the lamp. I ran an instance of Neat video, but it didn’t reduce it because it is common to all frames.

    Any ideas for removing this?

    John Fishback
    replied 11 years, 3 months ago
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  • Noah Kadner

    May 22, 2015 at 4:07 pm

    You could probably reduce that a bit with a mask and some color grading. Or SliceX/TrackX. That said- looks like a particularly bad S8 transfer. Not sure how important this section is or whether it’s possible to get it retransferred.

    Noah

    FCPWORKS – FCPX Workflow
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  • Mack Mclaughlin

    May 22, 2015 at 4:50 pm

    Thanks for the reply. It was actual damage to the tape, not the transfer. I will try some color grading and see if I can minimize it. Don’t have a ton of experience with grading, so it will be a good learning experience.

  • Noah Kadner

    May 22, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    Yep- you could do a lot with the Draw Mask tool in 10.2 combined with the color effect.

    Noah

    FCPWORKS – FCPX Workflow
    Call Box Training

  • John Fishback

    May 30, 2015 at 7:24 pm

    If you use the color mask and choose the green with the eye dropper then you can either desaturate the color or change it to a different/better color.

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