If you haven’t seen the latest lecture from IlmCast titled “Beyond Ilm Summit” then I recommend you watch it below.

The above video was shot with a Canon GL2 and Canon FS100. Unfortunately the lighting was all that great in the room and neither cameras are really any good for low light shooting so I found myself in a slight post production blunder. When I tried adjusting the levels control, hue and saturation the noise artifacts (the small colorful floating pixels) increased dramatically to the point where it was dead on distracting.

During the editing process I came across the Neat Video Noise Reduction Plug-in for Premiere and After Effects. I figured I’ll give it a try. I made the purchase and applied the effect. Below are the before and after images that are shown from the use of the plug-in.

When a plug-in like this is used every frame of the video is altered. This video is a little over an hour in length. Normally render time would be anywhere between eight to ten hours, but with the noise reduction plug-in in effect caused the render time to be about 115 hours. That’s right…one hundred and fifteen continuous hours of rendering on my machine which is a dual-core Pentium. That’s almost five solid days!

The other down side of using this plugin was that any movement by the talent on screen was unintentionally given a motion blur effect. Although the motion blur looks cool, in my opinnion it isn’t appropriate for a video such as this. It tends to be distracting from what’s being said.

     

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