Video Noise Reduction within Avid Xpress Pro HD

DC

DC

Cinematographiliac
Ok, I need a quick solution (running up against late entry deadline for Sundance short films). I have some video noise (grain) in certain shots of my project. I am looking for a way in Avid (probably a plugin) to smooth it over. I know Tinder has DeGrain but it is for Avid DS AND only in a bundle AND very expensive.

I was looking at AlgoSuite's Noise plugin (http://www.algolith.com/index.php?id=algosuite&L=0). They have a $59 weekly license option. But it is only available for After Effects. I have After Effects and Elastic Gasket but Algolith's plugins are not compatible with Elastic Gasket, unfortunately. Is there a similar AE plugin that will work with Elastic Gasket?

I suppose I could export to After Effects and use the AlgoSuite plugin. Then I'd bring it back into Avid. Any recommendation on steps for doing that? I want to preserve the best quality.

However, I would really like to just clean the video up right on the Avid timeline.

Any help or advice is much appreciated.

Thanks,

-DC-
 
Algolith and Grain Surgery in AE 6.5 are your best bet. I have had good luck with Algolith with 29.97 stuff.
 
Thanks, man.

It's kind of funny . . . I had originally noticed all this video noise in my Avid client monitor. I thought I'd just process the video to clean it up. However, I decided to burn a test DVD just to see what it looked like. I went from my Avid Mojo directly into my Lite-On 5045 recorder via Firewire and at the highest quality setting. When I played back the DVD (on multiple TV's), I couldn't believe my eyes. 90% of the video noise was gone! It is as if the encoding process had some kind of video noise reduction filter activated.

So, I think it will be fine for now. I may play around later to try to remove more noise before encoding again, however, it may not even be necessary.

Cheers,

-DC-
 
Yeah, the client monitor view is certainly not the full quality that comes from the Mojo output or, possibly even better, the results of encoding to Sorensen Squeeze and burning that to DVD. It may take you longer than burning directly from the timeline to a set top DVD recorder, but the results are worth it, IMHO.

Regards,

Cre8tive
 
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