[Yilmaz Vurucu]

Thank you Shane.

I always work in a professional environment with pros for my industry work (including colorists, and of course on industry standard equipment), however this was a project of passion, extremely low budget, hence the working conditions. But your response has been extremely helpful, and has provided me with workaround options (such as purchasing an HD monitor and a card for my macbook)…

I appreciate it!

[Yilmaz Vurucu]

Hi Jerry-wow thank you for the enlightening post.. At least now I know what the problem is..

However, I did use this exact same camera (and the same videographer) for a music video I had directed, the only difference was-the post was completed at a professional production house. And I don’t recall (even though we shot the video at night with local lighting) having anywhere near this much noise in the footage-in fact the footage was quite crisp.. Which leads me to believe that either I’m doing something wrong with the importing process, or there’s some codec or something missing?

Now on a related note-if you wouldn’t mind, I have a few more questions in regards to this whole process…

I have also noticed noise in exterior shots as well and every single shot (the grass for instance), but it’s only obvious when I play the video at 100% of its size on FCP.. If I play it at 50% or so, it’s not as obvious. I don’t have a monitor-I’m doing something guerilla style here, editing this at home:)

So in your experience, is it really that bad, or does it have to do with the resolution size of my MAC screen… Im using an apple macbook.

Another question is-there’s something called the avc intra codec, should I download that, will it help, or is final cut pretty much calibrated for these formats and this is the be-all of the image quality I’ll be getting… Because I”ve worked with a host of other formats before, and even though this is HD, this is the worse problem I’ve had in regards to visual quality. So I can’t help but think if it’s a codec problem?

Because even when I export the footage out of FCP as Pro Res, I cannot tell you the amount of noise overall I see on the project-every shot has noise… Which makes me wonder-the whole project is not badly lit, so what might the issue be?

In anycase, I will have to push down the luma in each and every shot it seems like…