Can I lose noise in post?

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Indyreel

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I shot some footage with an hvx200 a few weeks ago. I noticed that in the well lit regions everything looked awesome, but in the shadows, I saw noise.

Can I lose this noise in post? and if so, will it look good enough for a filmout release?
 
That's a tough one. There are plugins for FCP that lessen noise and you can try and tweak the range so the noisy areas are darker, thereby making the noise less noticeable. Either way, I'm guessing a filmout and subsequent enlargement will NOT look good with blocky noise.

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I really like the noise filter that ships with After Effects. It takes some tweaking and some practice, but it can give good results to MiniDV and AMAZING results to DVCProHD. Be careful, if you're too heavy-handed, you'll lose sharpness. If your shots are exposed really well you can tweak some near-black noise out using curves.

I personally think that the noise in HVX footage is usually not horrible. It definitely has a "look", but so does everything else. Sometimes you have to embrace what you've got. :)

Post a clip somewhere and I'll show you what I mean.
 
I shoot with candlelights and the gain completely turned up. If what I shoot doesn't look like Snow White in a snowstorm, something went wrong. ;)
 
mcgeedigital said:
Sometimes I don't even take my lens cap off.
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Absolutely. I find that gives the picture a really moody, dark, atmospheric look that you really can't duplicate with cheap parlor tricks. It also makes sure you avoid any obnoxious blown-out parts of the image, lens flares, or other irritants that you didn't want in your picture. I call it MVS -- Minus Visual Stripe.
 
JonathanLB said:
Absolutely. I find that gives the picture a really moody, dark, atmospheric look that you really can't duplicate with cheap parlor tricks. It also makes sure you avoid any obnoxious blown-out parts of the image, lens flares, or other irritants that you didn't want in your picture. I call it MVS -- Minus Visual Stripe.
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Sometimes I shoot with my internal mic turned all the way up even when using a boom, makes it more "real"
 
If you have Final Cut Studio 2, Color has a grain/noise reduction filter you might try.
 
What Barry says.

Also, I believe a Mac version of the Neat Video plug in is expected.

Whether it will run in FCP or AE isn't yet know.
 
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