[Navarro Parker]

I have found Dual-Layer DVD+R holds just enough to hold an 8GB SxS card. It’s far more cost effective at less than $1 per DVD DL disc. And it’s nice that there’s a 1:1 correspondence between card and disc (one card = one disc). Makes for easy retrieval later. Also makes it easy and cheap to make multiple backups.

[Navarro Parker]

Thanks for the tip!

[Navarro Parker]

I’m previewing in FCP with a 30″ Cinema display at 100% scale.

I think we’re getting a little off track. The issue isn’t noise in my animated GIF. I posted an animated GIF to illustrate the noise problem I’m seeing. It’s the only format that supposts animation that I can embed into a forum. I realize that GIF only supports 256 colors. Not to sound snippy, but I’ve been in post and motion graphics for 15 years, so I have a pretty good idea of what’s what. Which is why this noise issue is very concerning and puzzling.

The noise that you are seeing in the GIF is virtually identical to what I’m seeing in FCP and AE CS3 and Quicktime Player. It’s in the movie. It’s not a FCP scaling issue. I don’t have a HD reference monitor available. So the 30″ Cinema is it.

[Navarro Parker]

Yes. To clarify, the footage looks gorgeous when I’m previewing it *live* via SDI on a HD studio monitor. When I get the SxS card back to my FCP station and import the footage, this is what I get: chunky dog food.

[Navarro Parker]

Are you running AE CS3 8.0.3? That enables OpenGL on Mac systems. AFIAK, OpenGL 1.5 is a spec for the hardware. You can’t upgrade a card to 1.5 or 2.0. Also, I’m pretty sure Nvidia has never released Mac drivers for their cards as they don’t have any Mac retail products. All drivers are released through Apple.

[Navarro Parker]

I’d love to see this too. Using XDCAM Transfer 2.5.1 — in list view, I right click on a column header and I don’t see any sort of exposure data to view.

[Navarro Parker]

Just for reference, here is a portion of the set (shot at 1080/30p HQ at 100% magnification) after I apply Keylight or Primatte 4. (The green screen element is out of view) You can clearly see this lumpy granular noise. Any ideas? I tried shooting at 720/30p and the noise was the same.

I tried shooting at -3db gain and there was no improvement in noise over 0db. I’m previewing the video on an SDI HD screen and it looks completely smooth and beautiful. Is my noise problem caused from the XDCAM EX compression? I’m just really frustrated trying to get a noise free image.

[Navarro Parker]

Here’s the kind of noise I’m talking about. This was shot with XDCAM EX 1080p HQ. After applying either Keylight or Primatte, I get this lumpy granular noise. (Even though this is an animated GIF, the noise is pretty close to what I’m seeing on my display)

Any idea what’s causing this?

[Navarro Parker]

I appreciate your quick reply.

I’m seeing a lot of noise on my source footage. Here’s a 200% enlargement. Given that it’s an animated GIF, the video noise is pretty close to what I’m actually seeing.

I did a eyedropper on the green portion and I’m getting a green R97 G194 B90 — which seems like it has a lot of red and blue components to it. Is that acceptable?

[Navarro Parker]

I got this problem when I first bought Invig Pro.

Just make sure the “use compression” checkbox is *unchecked* when you save your Illy CS2 file.