Grain Editing

Grain and noise are often caused by filming in a location with low light. Originally, this clip was just a practise but I watched a tutorial...

explaining how to reduce grain. This worked very well and most importantly, has improved my editing skills in 'After Effects' as well as 'Premiere Pro.'

This is the original video...



As you can see, the grain is unattractive and distracting. This is because I shot in low light and with a camera that did not give the best quality.

And this is the version I edited...




I edited this in Adobe After Effects. I had never used this software therefore my research such as the tutorial video helped me. I used tools such as 'temporal filtering' which when enabled reduced my grain a little. I also used 'noise reduction'. The 'sampling' tool was very useful when reducing my grain because I used this manually and placed sample boxes where my grain was at its worst, allowing it to spot a more accurate pattern of noise.

Whilst sometimes when reducing grain, you can be left with a glowing, unrealistic piece of footage, I ensured that I did not push this up too much, maintaining the same level of detail.



I am pleased with how my skills have improved through this exercise of mine.

Included:

• Edited footage and explanation of techniques used