Grain removal solutions for Super 8 FILM?

[casonova197]

Anyone ever used Grain Removal software or perhaps Digital Film Lab software to remove some grain over grainy film stocks. Such as pro 8mm stocks or some 200t. Grain Removal is for photoshop, but it could be applyed over frames over a long amount of time might have some solution. Anyone try this or had tests?

[Alex]

There's no need to fear, SUPER-GRAINLESS MAN is here.

Sure, I can take out grain and if you A & B the before and after, chances are no new noticeable artifacts will be added, but you will have less grain. However, it's possible that on a super-big 50 inch HD television perhaps you might notice a very slight, very minimal chroma bleed, but I'm not sure actually.

[Scotness]

Try a DV codec :lol:

- I think sofware like Grainsurgery also has a remove grain function in it

Scot

[mattias]

there are some great filters for virtual dub. and any noise reduction tool will help too. i'm more fond of adding grain than removing it though. :-)

/matt

[VideoFred]

Avisynth has some great plugins, too:

degrainmedian() + fft3dfilter() + limitedsharpen() + some videoFred special tuning gives this:




Fred.

[GhostDiesel]

Check out The Foundry's "Furnace" plugins for Shake, After Effects, Discreet and Avid. There is a DeGrain node which does a pretty good job. To get the best result, seperate the channels into RGB, DeGrain each channel and then max them (Shake) back together again. The ReGrain node has a number of built in options as well as custom options to regrain your film plates.

http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/

Look under the products tab.

Good luck!

[christoph]

Check out The Foundry's "Furnace" plugins for Shake, After Effects, Discreet and Avid.

.. or use the 4000 bucks to shoot some 16mm and transfer on a spirit? :)
++ christoph ++

[GhostDiesel]

OOps!! Never realised the weight of the price tag! Working in the industry I kinda take these things for granted! Anyway, I am sure one of the above mentioned programs would do just as good a job.