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- Real Name: Chris Duran
I’m sure we’ve all been here before, at least I’m hoping that’s the case…
So we wrapped our short film, shot on the (OG) Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera, and honestly the whole production was a dream come true. We watched dailies every night and everything seemed fine, until it came time to look at our interiors. Unfortunately, by the time I looked at these scenes closely, re-shoots were no longer possible.
For our interior scenes, I made the mistake of both shooting at ISO 800, and not ETTR to get as much light onto the sensor as possible. This resulted in some pretty nasty chroma noise, luminance noise (which doesn’t bother me too much as we want an s16 look anyway), and Fixed Pattern Noise.
I haven’t applied any color grading yet, just basic WB correction (we stayed at 4500k) but the noise is freaking me out so much I’m afraid it’ll be hard to edit the footage.
I’ve been trying to learn as much as I can about Noise Reduction, and feel as though I’m starting to get a pretty good handle on it. I know that ultimately the move will be just to lean in to and embrace what we have.
This whole thing has been really hard on me, and I can definitely say it is lesson learned, but I figured I would come here for perhaps more specific tips or tricks. Any and all help is greatly appreciated as this is essentially the “Senior Thesis” of our self-made film school.
Sorry for the long post, and thank you so much in advanced for potentially saving our project and my sanity.
So we wrapped our short film, shot on the (OG) Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera, and honestly the whole production was a dream come true. We watched dailies every night and everything seemed fine, until it came time to look at our interiors. Unfortunately, by the time I looked at these scenes closely, re-shoots were no longer possible.
For our interior scenes, I made the mistake of both shooting at ISO 800, and not ETTR to get as much light onto the sensor as possible. This resulted in some pretty nasty chroma noise, luminance noise (which doesn’t bother me too much as we want an s16 look anyway), and Fixed Pattern Noise.
I haven’t applied any color grading yet, just basic WB correction (we stayed at 4500k) but the noise is freaking me out so much I’m afraid it’ll be hard to edit the footage.
I’ve been trying to learn as much as I can about Noise Reduction, and feel as though I’m starting to get a pretty good handle on it. I know that ultimately the move will be just to lean in to and embrace what we have.
This whole thing has been really hard on me, and I can definitely say it is lesson learned, but I figured I would come here for perhaps more specific tips or tricks. Any and all help is greatly appreciated as this is essentially the “Senior Thesis” of our self-made film school.
Sorry for the long post, and thank you so much in advanced for potentially saving our project and my sanity.