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jaegersing wrote on 2/18/2005, 7:28 AM
I don't think a plugin is necessary. You could try adding the Color Correction filter and adjusting the gamma, or adding Color Curves and playing with the curve shape in the mid-section (basically adjusting the gamma again, but with more control and flexibility). Since the camera coudn't compensate for the ND filter, I assume there wasn't much light available, so you need to make sure not to boost the low end too much otherwise the picture could get very noisy.

Richard Hunter
Edward wrote on 2/19/2005, 3:23 AM
i don't know if i saw this in an adobe premier tutorial, but is there a way to eliminate the grain, or noise in the picture? I tried to do it in vegas but couldn't recreate it. (I saw it, thought it was interesting, then tried to do it a month later).
farss wrote on 2/19/2005, 4:50 AM
There's no magic bullet to fix this, if at all possible shoot it again, nothing will get it looking like it would have if you'd left the ND filter off.
If you cannot reshoot it then there's some good advice above. Basically you need to increase the gain without bringing up the noise anymore than it already is so the color curves are good for this as you can adjust the shape of the curves. Probably then you could try one of a number of noise reduction methods.
What you'll probably start to see happening is bad color banding or something like solarising, once that starts to happen don't push it anymore or it'll look really bad, better to leave it a bit dark as that can hide a lot.
Bob.
vicmilt wrote on 2/19/2005, 5:49 AM
as a last resort - eliminate all color, and see what it looks like in good old balck and white.
v.
RichMacDonald wrote on 2/19/2005, 9:08 AM
Color curve to lighten the video. That'll increase noise. To minimize the noise, try Mike Crash's noise reduction filters, the dynamic noise reducton first, and the smart smoother if that's not enough.