• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Tips For Noisy / Grainy DVCPRO HD Footage

  Posted by Tobin Nageotte on February 16, 2007 at 11:17 pm

  Recently shot some footage (DVCPRO HD, 720p60) with an HVX200 that came back slightly noisy. I imported the trouble clips into AE and added a few filters…

  1) Magic Bullet DeArtifacter (I left the default settings)

  2) Remove Grain (Effect>Noise and Grain>Remove Grain), I adjusted…
  a) Temporal Filtering – Turn “On,” adjusted Amount and Motion Sensitivity as filter sometimes leaves trails with movement in shot
  b) Noise Reduction Settings – Adjusted Noise Reduction, Passes, and Channel Noise Reduction (increased Blue Noise for grain in blacks, Red Noise for grain in reds)
  c) Blend with Original – I left the Amount between 8%-12%, the Combine Matte to “screen,” and the Blur Matte between .3 and 1

  These filters tended to drop the general luminance of the shot (albiet aslo added a richness in tones), so I included a Shadow/Hilight filter (Effect>Color Correction>Shadow/Hilight) when the shot needed a boost.
  I was pleasantly surprised how well the footage reacted to these filters. Might help someone with a similar issue.

  Best,
  thirtysevenclick

  Tobin Nageotte replied 19 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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