get rid of adapter grain in post?

[Lenilenapi]

I have static grain in an interview shot of a guy against the sky.
Classic problem I know I should have known better but I didn't see it even in my 8" panasonic monitor.

Any ideas for how to fix it in post on a Mac?

Shot in HDV on a canon. I have Final Cut Studio 6.04 and an old version of after affects that I've never learned to sue.

I have tried to mask off the sky using a secondary color correction for a key and then applied a gaussian blur to that. It helps but I'd like to do better. I don't want to blur out the subject as that's already too soft.

I'd love to get rid of it all over the image, but if I can fix only the sky it would be a big improvement. Fortunately in the shot the whole background is far away so it is all much softer than the subject.

Lenny Levy

[robmneilson]

I used neat video's de-noise plugin for AE and it got rid of most of extreme grain I had in a shot...

[Lenilenapi]

did that fix static noise or moving noise?
I think moving noise may be easier to fix

[Kholi]

Hey Lenny,

neat Video will remove static noise as well. I tried it out a few times and it works.

I wish Neat would allow you to switch licenses once you've bought the damned thing...

[Lenilenapi]

I think the new version only works on the latest version of AE though.


have you tried Topaz?

[Richard J. Johnson]

Neat video here. It got rid of the adapter grain for my short I shot for this fest.