Steve Zimmerman
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Well, Since no one has responded I’ll post what I found out to help others in the future.
I was getting noise because I was applying the After Effects Grain Reduction Effect after the Levels effect. I learned it needs to be at the top of the effects list. After correcting this the noise disappeared.
Use the single channel noise reduction, and view each of the red, green blue channels individually to see that you have removed most of the noise. Most of the noise is in the blue channel.
Now the temporal effect works fine too.
this was also helpful:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/oconnell_pete/cineon.php -
Thank you for your response! I will try Dark Energy soon. It’s PC only and I’m working on a Mac right now, but I’m getting a PC soon.
I am getting properly exposed Super 16mm footage transferred on a Scanity to 2K DPX files. After the usual noise reduction, grading, and tweaking in AE, I’m outputting to HD Bluray by way of uncompressed lossless mov exported from AE and Blu Ray h.264 from Adobe Media encoder. On my blu rays, I am getting excessive noise that’s beyond the normal grain of 16mm. Random electronic noise on certain dark objects within the frame. I know that it’s not in the scans, but rather something in the compression or settings along the way.
I’ve watched a lot of mainstream 16mm shows and movies on blu ray that don’t have this sense of aggravated noise. However – and this is the big however – on some tvs the blu rays look incredible. On others it looks noisy, with certain parts of the image horribly unaceptable. Others, it’s so-so, with only maybe certain colors that seem to be fringing and pulsing, etc.
Is there a particular element to the compression process I need to look further into to tame this electronic noise? Why would the results be so widely different on multiple tvs?
Thanks,
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F— it!
I’m switching to Premiere Pro!
By the way, to those who said I needed an expensive RAID array to play 2k files real time, I can play them fine with a single SSD.
🙂
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We were able to get around the problem by rendering out smaller segments into FCP QT movie files, then placing those on a new timeline, rendering them all together. No problem with pixelated video.
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Sorry, It’s version 6: 6.0.6
Steve Z.
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Thnks for the responses.
Hmm, looks like we may have to deal with using proxies, and color correcting in Color using stills. We are still getting some sort of RAID setup to speed things a little.
Thanks again,
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Thanks guys for all the quick responses!!
I have been looking at these lower cost 4 drive RAID drives.
BH Photo:
$469.95:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/730904-REG/Buffalo_HD_QL4TSU2R5_4TB_DriveStation_Quad_HD_QLSU2R5.html$539.95:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/706859-REG/Verbatim_96956_2TB_PowerBay_Quad_RAID.htmlnewegg:
$499:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822165089&cm_re=4_drive_raid-_-22-165-089-_-Product—————————————————————-
I have also priced out rather cheap build-it-myself RAID setup:
4 bay RAID enclosure:$139 — Add 4 nice drives and RAID card.(below)
https://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_enclosures/scsat4eb.asp
(There are fancier ones with temp gagues and removeable drives)4 x 500Gb Hitachi Drives: $38 x 4 = $152
https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007603%2050001984&IsNodeId=1&name=Hitachi%20Global%20Storage%20TechnologiesI wave built a 4 drive RAID for my PC before (using my motherboard’s SATA RAID capabilities) with no issues. Which card would you use with this setup? The Sonnet one still? Are there any other lower priced eSATA RAID cards?
Thanks so much,
Steve Zimmerman
Charleston, SC