James McDonagh wrote:My request of all the wise cinematographers and colorists out there: please share with me each and every way that you go about reducing noise/grain and FPN in your footage. I own Premier Pro and the Studio version of DaVinci.
Use more light!
Whenever I encounter really dark, underexposed material, I often shake my head and say out loud, "this would've looked really great if they just could have LIT it." (I try to avoid saying this with the client actually in the room.)
You can try to use 3rd-party tools like Neat Video NR, but be aware there's always a price to pay for heavy noise reduction. You could also try a relatively-high setting of luma-only NR for TNR, and chroma-only for SNR, and see what that does within Resolve.