Greetings,
I have Cineon files scanned from a Film Negative and I am converting them to Apple ProRes 4444 XQ.
I use FCP X on a Macbook Pro 2012 running El Capitan.
Would you know of a good way (perhaps a Plugin) too reduce Film Grain / Noise in the shadows?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
Regards
Rajnesh
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1G
Take a look at this product.There is a demo version.
The processing can take a while.
Good luck.
Russ
another denoiser to take into consideration is Photon Pro, discription and comparison to Neat here:
… good for the smaller budget 😉
Thank You Russ and Karsten.
Finally, I chose Neat Video 4, because it gave me more control and a better way to analyze my footage.
I've attached Screen Shots from two examples. In the First case, you'll see the following three Images:
The UnFiltered version (without using Neat/ Grain Reduction):
The Result with Neat Video's Default Setting:
My Manually tweaked Version using Neat's First Cut as a Starting Point:
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The Next Set of Images shows the same things as before, but with a Different Shot, and the Noise in the Y (Luminance Channel's) High, Mid and Low Ranges:
Pre Neat Video:
Neat Video Default Settings:
Neat Video Manually Tweaked (with its Default as a Starting Point):
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Rajnesh
Thanks for posting the results…interesting.
Russ
thanks, Rajnesh, for sharing your tests, impressive results!
esp. in the blacks, the 'confetti' gone, without posterizing ...
Will you color correct the pic (white blance), … ? Or do you keep this 'sandy' look? (I like it)
Would be interesting how the denoising looks then …
Hi Karsten,
I will definitely Color Correct the Footage and Re-Upload some images in a couple of days.
I'll let you know what workflow I used, but I think it'll probably be: Noise Reduction first, and then Color Correction.
Thanks,
Rajnesh
Film grain reduction
