Removing fuzz

[Lillian Fidler]

Hi:

thanks so much for your response. The footage is not actually so much out of focus as it is just noisy I guess. the sharpness seems to be gone, but it’s in focus alright.

These are interviews which when shot, I had very little experience with my camera, but did get some professional help and setup in a proper studio with proper lighting. One of the interviews came out very nice and clear and clean and the others are what I’m referring to as ‘fuzzy’ or noisy. I can really see the difference. When I had the studio have a look they told me that the lighting was not setup properly on the ones that were noisy. I know that re-shooting would be the best option but this is not going to be possible in this case.

After a bit more information, I wonder if you have any further comments or suggestions.

thanks so much,

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

thanks, I’ll give it a go and be prepared for waiting 🙂

I guess the word I was probably looking for was ‘grainy’

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Kevin Camp]

a faster way to lessen grain is to try cc time blend, with ‘accumulation’ set to lower values (like 10-30%) and ‘clear to’ set to current frame.

this technique is just blending frames together, and while it renders quickly and can be effective an reducing noise, it has a drawback of adding more motion blur to the footage… at lower values the motion blur may not be too noticeable in realtime, but depending on the movement of the subject it may or may not work well for your footage.

also, if you’ve never used the cc time effect, you’ll be hitting the ‘clear’ option often (click the underlined term ‘clear’ at the top of the effect) and prior to any render. this is to clear the buffer of frames that it creates, and you’ll usually need to do it after any setting changes you make.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW