Bob Peterson
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A 5D III gives you a lot of options for reducing or eliminating noise depending on what you are shooting. If ISO, shutter speed, and aperture cannot provide acceptable noise levels, then you need to add light. I have a 5D II, and I cannot remember a case where it has had noticeable noise although I remember well the kind of situations which were challenging.
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The best way to remove it is in the camera. You can add more light, or get a camera which does not need as much light. I have used software to remove noise from still photos, and that software works by softening the sharpness of the image. Thus, the instructor advice I’ve always heard is to fix it in the camera.
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Was Dolby used when the tape was recorded? If it was, then it should be on when the tape is played back. That should not change the volume level, but it will reduce the noise level in the audio.
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I think I would play with the 3D camera to see what it could do.
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1. Use a rewritable media. Then burn a short segment of your video and watch it on your target device. A TV is what I use. Make notes of the changes you want to make. Make the changes and try again. This approach may require many iterations which is why you need rewritable media.
2. Take as many courses in color theory as you can afford. It will probably take several to begin to understand how it works. The ones I took were part of a photography program.
3. Save your money and buy a calibrator. It will probably help enough to be worthwhile.
4. Keep using step 1. It will probably be a lot quicker because you now have a much better chance of understanding what you need to do.
5. Recognize that there is no quick, low budget, trial & error way to do this.
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The first thing I would consider is your computer monitor. Is it calibrated? If not, it may be showing a video image which is too bright when, in fact, the image is too dark. Obtaining the same image across many different devices, like computer displays and televisions, is difficult and affects everyone who works with digital images.
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One thought. It looks like their commodity hardware business is in trouble. Vegas does not fit into either of those categories. If Sony remains in the media business, there is probably still a place for Vegas. I wonder what the status of their prosumer camera business will be in this plan, and if this will adversely impact sales of their still and video cameras. Beyond that, there is Nikon’s dependence on Sony for camera sensors. We live in a very uncertain world these days.
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I am using Vegas 12 Build 770 and Photoshop CS6. Although I am using a Tif rather than a PSD, Photoshop opens and saves an updated file without any complaint. That is true even if Vegas is keeping the file open (I do have a problem seeing an updated image if Vegas keeps the file open). When Vegas is set to close the file when not active, I see the updated image immediately when I return to Vegas. My guess is that a PSD and a Tif will behave in identical ways. I no longer use PSDs since I see no advantage of a PSD over a Tif, and Windows Explorer will not show me a thumbnail of a PSD file. It will show me a thumbnail for everything else such as Tifs or Jpegs.
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One thing that may be going on is that you have not been reading enough posts in the forum. These settings have been recommended several times in the past. I have a custom template set up so that I do not have to remember the “better” AC3 settings each time that I do a render. A search on AC3 or -31 might yield a fuller explanation.
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One thing to learn. Don’t pay too much attention to the preview especially when it is not set to display the highest quality image. I usually don’t worry to much about previews as long as they are reasonably close. I defer quality judgements until I am seeing the rendered output on a suitable display device.