Solutions for dealing with noise and grain in low-light shots?

[Don Palomaki]

I tried the Neat Video demo in Premiere Pro on some SD footage with a lot of noise. At first blush the results looked nice, except for some significant motion blurring of moving things, but that may in large part be to too aggressive filtering settings. Something that can be improved with experience I'm sure. O am seriously considering getting it.

[Greg Boston]

Originally Posted by Paul Tauger

That's interesting. When I was considering buying the HV-20, I looked at some sample footage posted at the Canon site. It included some very low-light stuff that was shot inside a bar -- it was smooth as silk, no grain and nice saturated color.

Paul, I have that video (nice looking lady) and the scene was professionally lit. It doesn't represent a real world run and gun scenario like you are using. Did I mention that the lady looks very nice in that video? (hehe)

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