Wednesday: Learning about grain effects on Premiere Pro
Thursday: Learning about grain effects on After Effects
Friday: Checking out film equipment again
Grain
I investigated how to deal with grain this week, because in a fair amount of my footage there is unfortunately a lot of problems I've had with grain. Grain is when you have a bunch of dots going around on a composition or video that sporadically shoot everywhere and makes the quality look worse. Here is an example of what I'm talking about, in it if you full screen you can see a small amount of grain:
Grain Effects
To combat this, I looked into how to remove or at least reduce the grain in my footage.
In Premiere Pro, unfortunately, there is not a direct method to remove grain. In the Effects Panel, there are only effects that add or change up the existing grain. I looked all around, but there is nothing that can remove it, and as it can be seen most of these effects deal with "noise" specifically.
The difference between noise and grain is minor, and can even be used interchangeably in my opinion. Within these different effects show, you can add more noise/grain, change the color of the noise/grain, and even distort them or make them super saturated and stuff like that. What you actually want to end up doing to reduce grain in your footage is to do everything through After Effects. In this video I watched, they recommend starting in Premiere Pro still. Start by inputting your footage into Premiere, and then going into the footage's settings. After going into its settings by right clicking the footage in the timeline, click on "Replace With After Effects Composition." Selecting this will replace the video of your footage with an After Effects project. In this After Effects project, you can do anything you want with it and it will automatically update within your Premiere Pro project. If for whatever reason things don't work out between the updating in Premiere Pro, you can also just export your After Effects Project and then put that into your Premiere Pro project. Either way, you can then actually use an effect that will get rid of the grain in your footage. Go into the effects for your footage and select Remove
Grain. Put that Remove Grain on your footage and then you will see a variety of settings for it. Firstly, there's your selection of where you want your removal of grain to be. It's the white box that shows up over your footage, and you can make it bigger or smaller. It doesn't just affect the entirety of your footage since, as the video shows, sometimes footage just has bad grain in certain spots of footage. After messing with how much of your footage is messed with, you can then go on to the noise reduction settings and actually remove the grain to however much you want. The effect in reality doesn't work perfectly. What it will do is essentially smooth over your footage. For that reason, there is a slider for how much you want to remove the grain in your footage. And that's that. Play around with how much you want to smooth over the grain, and then save and your Premiere Pro project will be updated!
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