Fuzzy Video? Help!

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JPschmidt

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My friend and I were shooting a test short film to play with his new t2i and the video came out fuzzy:

http://vimeo.com/11787309
http://vimeo.com/11788516

there is a link to the video ...

we had decent light

settings were:
720 60fps
iso 1600
shutter i think was 1/24th

The video was imported via iPhoto then to FCP

Either way though from what Ive seen online no one else has this kind of fuzzy grainy gainy video footage, what are we doing wrong?

Thanks!
 
The thing is we've seen so many videos on vimeo shot with stock kit lenses at the same ISO with little to no noise under worse lighting conditions.

Note*
the 2nd video shows the noise even more so.
 
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I don't know how you shot a shutter speed of 1/24th at 60 fps, that's mildly impossible without frame doubling.

Did you brighten the image in post? Try shooting with more light, noise is most evident in the shadows.
 
Yeah I said I think, i wasn't operating hte camera so I dont remeber the shutter, and no that is raw footage.

Yeah the shot uploaded is shadowy, but I'll have him upload the close up of a face which was well lit but still awfully fuzzy
 
JPschmidt said:
The thing is we've seen so many videos on vimeo shot with stock kit lenses at the same ISO with little to no noise under worse lighting conditions.

Note*
the 2nd video shows the noise even more so.
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Pay attention to what MCAN told you. If you shoot at anything above 800 iso you will get noise in your picture. If you ask for help and you receive the correct answer then be thankful for that.


Also it is IMPOSSIBLE that there is ANY footage shot at 1600 iso WITHOUT noise, IMPOSSIBLE.
 
Or the files were shot in 1080P and downconverted to 720P. I've shot really noisy footage in 1080P, mainly receptions, and the noise magically vanished when I encode to 720. That could probably be it.
 
Cieloent said:
Also it is IMPOSSIBLE that there is ANY footage shot at 1600 iso WITHOUT noise, IMPOSSIBLE.
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Well unless you're using the 1D MKIV, but that's a whole different story.

But yeah it just looks like noise, which should be expected at ISO 1600.

It also looks like compression artifacts, probably because you're shooting in 720p and at such a high ISO. Whenever you increase the fps, you really need to add more light. Bringing up the ISO will just make it uglier.

Why are you shooting in 720p when you're not using slow-motion? Shoot at 1080p whenever you can. With the line skipping in these cameras you want to have as much resolution and DR as you can.
 
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