Remove noise – first or last?

[Steve Bentley]

I’m not sure I understand what you are after. Putting an adjustment layer over any layer will affect all layers below. If you only want to kill the noise on your 3d render, put the noise killer on that layer alone.

I guess the first question is, why is there noise on your 3D render and/or why would you want to get rid of it?

What am i missing?

[Walter Soyka]

In most cases, I’d remove noise first, and I’d pre-render it. Noise reduction is slow, so it can be painful to work under; better to remove it early in the process so you can see exactly what you’ve got as you go along without constantly incurring that render penalty.

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[Jim Bachalo]

There is noise because the only reason I am using AE is to save time on my 3D render sequences, both by reducing number of samples and not doing any DOF effects during my render.

I need to both remove remaining noise AND apply DOF effects as well as a LUT in post.

Most people would say use Nuke or Fusion but I think AE is the prefect tool if I’m only doing those 3 things

so

1- need to remove noise
2- need to apply LUT
3- need to apply DOF effect

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