HMC150 Cine noise?

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firehawk

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Hi everyone.

I just finished a 3 camera shoot outdoors in good daylight. (2X HMC150, 1X HCK10 (HMC40) ).

Cinelike D and cinelike matrix and gamma.
Left scene file settings alone other than choosing those two settings.
I manually white balanced on a white board and held it own long enough to black balance also.
1080 24P at 1/48 shutter.
The HMC 150s I believe were about F8 with 1/64 ND engaged whereas the HCK10 was closed as much as I could and still had too many zebras so I had to up the shutter to 1/250 to cut more light. DRS off on all cameras.

Here's my question/concern. The HMC150 footage has some noise/grain. Particulary noticeable in the black areas, such as the actor's black shirt and the black bedliner of a pickup truck. The HCK10 footage is cleaner.
I was surprised at the noise. Is there something I could do to improve this? I'm trying to learn and improve.
Thank you for any help.
 
TheDingo has some good advice.

Cine-D is the noisiest of all the picture profiles. It offers the greatest dynamic range -- but the price you pay for this is noise. (The cleanest are Spark and Cine-V) Crushing the blacks in post (increase contrast) should clean up the noisy blacks.
 
Thank you everyone for the help.
I actually wanted to shoot on spark, but the hck10 doesn't seem to have that setting. I tried cine V during some test shots the week before but ultimately went with cine D after reviewing my test footage. Unfortunately my test footage was performed at an entirely different location and was done on houses, trees and yards instead of actors lit by bounceboards.
 
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