Removing Grain

jumpthewire

jumpthewire

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I'm working on a project where some video sources are from VHS.
It is live band footage, so the lighting is low and the grain is high.

Curious if there are any plugins or programs that specialize in
making VHS or 8mm footage look better.

(removing grain, fixing gamma ect)

thanks!
shawn
 
Neat Video is great for doing this, I highly recommend checking them out. Right now, the plug-in only works in After Effects on the Mac. On the PC, there are more hosts available. Hopefully there will eventually be an FCP version. But I do recommend going to their site and checking out their before/after examples ( http://www.neatvideo.com/examples.html ) and then download the demo. You can process your footage and see what kind of results you get before deciding whether or not to buy (it watermarks your clips).

There's also RE:Vision Effects DE:Noise filter, which has an FCP version: http://www.revisionfx.com/products/denoise/

Graeme Nattress sells some noise reduction plugins for FCP as well: http://www.nattress.com/Products/BigBox/Bigbox.htm

I think Neat Video is pretty hard to beat though, personally.

As for the gamma, just use your scopes and whatever color correction tool you want (curves in AE, 3-way CC/Colorista in Final Cut, etc.) to get contrast back in your footage.
 
guess i need to upgrade!

i did try out RE:Vision Effects DE:Noise filter.

worked OK. didn't make such an improvement to where i would justify
spending $150 on it....

then again, the footage IS pretty poor quality to begin with.

shawn
 
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