When removing noise from footage, remember that the more you crank up your noise reduction the longer your render time will be, and you will also start to lose detail in your image. Denoiser III has five options: Reduce Noise, Smooth Colors, Preserve Detail, Sharpen Amount and Sharpen Radius. A lot of denoise plug-ins have an abundance of options when, in reality, unless you are an online editor nerd like me or a colorist, you probably don’t have time to mess around with the different noise removal options and render each time. Dimly lit shots will not work as well as outdoor shots.The options are limited and I believe we are better off for it. However keep in mind to select shots that some shot will work better than others upscaled. Each preset also has the ability to fit your image wither to the height or the width, giving you more control over the final product.
These include everything from 720p all the way up to Ultra HD. Instant 4K is so simply to use and the UI for this plug in is made even easier with the ability to select from a wide election of presets. Instant 4k uses Red Giant’s unique algorithms to achieve much better result when upscaling your footage. However there is no support for FCP7, and that’s perfectly reasonable as FCP7 is considered a legacy application.
Instant 4k is compatible with Adobe Premier Pro and After Effects CS5, CS6, and CC on both Mac and PC. Red Giant ’s Instant 4k provides a solution to your problem.
In a world where 4K is staring to become the norm, the question arises what to do with old stock footage shot in 1080p ? The cost to go back out and re-shoot everything again on 4k simply just does not make sense, and traditional upscaling within your NLE leaves your results much less desirable. Try out Denoiser II, I’m sure you will see many benefits of adding this application to your edit suite. The next time you think a shot simply has too much noise to be used or must be re-shot. On it’s own it simply a must have piece of software as it can salvage shots that may have been deemed to badly damaged from noise and abbreviations. Denoiser II provides you with a wide selection of adjustable variables from Fine Tuning the Luma and Chroma offsets, to more Advanced Settings such as Shadow Offset and Noise Detection.ĭenoiser II is an excellent application as part of Red Giant Shooter Suite. Once inside After Effects it really is easy as other filter to apply Denoiser II to your footage. This is a great speed enhancement on systems and graphic cards that support OpenCL 1.1 (and higher).ĭuring my review, I chose to use After Effects as it really is one my favourite go to applications for visual effects of any kind. It features a new Use GPU checkbox makes Denoiser 1.4 run 3–4x faster than Denoiser 1.3. This is where Denoiser II steps in to help resolve the issue.ĭenoiser II supports Adobe After Effects and Premier Pro CS5, CS6, and CC. However, in many of these cases the higher the ISO we shoot the more unwanted noise is introduced into our footage. The low light capabilities are miles ahead of what they used to be only a short while ago.
Shooting on today’s cameras are just simply amazing. These tools are known as Denoiser II and Instant 4K. In this article I will continue to review the Red Giant Shooter Suite by taking a look at 2 more tools. If you missed that article you can catch up here. During the previous article, we began to dive deeper into Red Giant Shooter Suite.