Problem Solving: Noise

Something brought up in the crit session was that my footage is too grainy because it has a lot of visual noise. As discussed before in my blog, I have determined this to be due to lack of natural light. Having tried some filters I couldn't remove the noise from my video but I did some quick research and found a set of plugins, one of which removes noise. At first glance this plugin really helps my footage.

The problem I have found with this though is that the 'Spatial-Temporal Balance' option is the best part of the filter, yet when I have it on anything above 0 it causes some serious artefacting in motion. With this option disabled the removal of noise is not as strong. I will still keep the remove noise on but without the option mentioned above. While this does not solve the problem it has helped it a bit.

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On the top is the original and on the bottom is with the plugin.