'Accidental' Gain situation......

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Davros

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Hi there

First Post, and I wish it was about something creative and not about something I messed up. Quick question. I have been shooting a project over the last week and during one shooting session, the rain ( I live in Scotland) was absolutely horizontal. I had a rain cover on and for for my sins managed to knock the gain right up to 12db. Aaaargh! The rain was dripping down my face and into my eyes and the viewfinder and it was only once the rain had stopped that I noticed the gain setting.........I cursed. Oh yes I did. Here's the question. What is the best way to reduce the amount of noise on the footage without too much (more) quality loss. Is this possible? If not, I suppose I could always make the footage more grainy and scratchy, replacing the words 'Urban Look' for the word's 'Looks Crappy'. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Davros
 
There are noise reduction utilities (like Nattress on FCP, or Grain Surgery or such). Don't know how effective they'll be with 12db footage, but you can probably download a demo and give it a try...
 
If i may piggy back off this question, I was wondering about negative gain.

On the canon XL H1, there's a -3db gain setting,

My question is, would this improve footage clairty at the expense of some light (easily compensated for) or would it have the same noisy effect as positive gain, except just darker?
 
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