[Jim Arco]

Using what you have on hand is always a good idea. Going to Photoshop just for de-noising will (obviously) add another step to your workflow and require another round of compression for the video unless you do all your work inside PS.

Plug-ins to reduce noise have improved quite a bit in the last few years, and Topaz has a lot of followers. I have also heard good things about Neat Video for AE. Also, if I remember correctly, Topaz has an NR for AE as part of their “enhance” plugins.

Jim

[Jim Arco]

WOW !!!!

That did it! Again, many thanks for your help. You have save me 30-40 hours of work.

Jim

[Jim Arco]

Thanks so much for the quick response, Dan.

When I paste this into the expression field for a text layer, I get an AE warning:

“Bad method arguments: can’t look for property by name in group ‘Effects’. You must use (index) Expression disabled.
Error occurred at line 7.”

Like I said, I’m a real novice when it comes to expressions. As I understand this, its telling me that I can’t use ‘name’ in the line
txt += L(“Effects”).property(j).name + “\r”;

I’ve tried a few other variations, but get the same error message. I am using AE CS4 on a PC, if it makes any difference.

[Jim Arco]

Being able to get to the original timecode seems like it would be useful to many people. It is imbedded in the original file without any encryption and we see several shareware programs that are able to read it without much difficulty.

I am puzzled as to why it is not available in any of the desktop NLE software available?

[Jim Arco]

Effects > noise & grain > match grain (in AE CS4.)

Another option might be to remove the noise with effects > noise & grain > remove grain, then add some gaussian noise to all the footage.