![]() I went back to the controls and clicked on the 'Sample Current Frame' to change the frame Denoiser was working on. After clicking OK the same frame showed up in the Canvas with the left half of the image looking fine but the right half was a solid blue. On one frame of a clip that was on a single layer of video with the addition of the 3-way Color Corrector I got a warning message. Only once during my testing of Magic Bullet's Denoiser did I encounter any problems. I am able to see just what parts of the frame Magic Bullet's Denoiser is seeing as video noise and thus, adjusting its algorithms to the clip. With the 'Show Noise Detection' box checked in the Advanced Settings, The same frame with the Magic Bullet Denoiser applied.Ī following frame with the Noise Discrimination setting raised, shows further reduction in video noise while there is no loss of detail in the subject, a Sand Tiger Shark. ![]() The original frame with a great deal of particulate in the water. This is a useful tool as you can then adjust the noise discriminator to see either more or less noise while avoiding smoothing and the possibility of your subject's details being mistakenly taken for noise. Though you might not need to use them, the Advanced Controls are there so that you can fine tune the Luma and Chroma settings as well as to use the Noise Discriminator to see just what the Denoiser filter is seeing as noise. Notice that there is no loss of detail in the foreground rocks. The same frame with the Denoiser applied. In fact, it was only when I pushed it up to 95 that I really noticed any artifacts in the clips I was using. Pushing it too far can create some noticeable artifacts but this was never an issue as long as I stayed below 75-80. The 'Enhancement' control correspondingly brings back much of the fine detail and I found a setting of 75 usually was as far as I needed to bring it. The higher the estimation the more Magic Bullet's Denoiser looks at multiple frames to determine what is noise and what is detail. If a clip has much motion you should raise the Motion Estimation to 'high' to keep moving details at as high a quality as you can. The 'low' setting is for slow pans or slow subject movement. The default setting of 'none' is best for single, non-moving subjects like talking heads or inanimate objects. The Motion Estimation drop-down menu provides a choice of none, low and high which are set depending upon the type of clip you are applying the Denoiser filter to. Increasing the Noise Reduction slider does create a smoother output though you don't want to push it too far to avoid excessive smoothing of your subject. At its' default setting it does a good job, especially when there is not much movement by the subject. The Noise Reduction slider, when raised, looks for more noise. There are 3 primary settings when opening the Denoiser controls in the Viewer. With Magic Bullet's Denoiser applied with only the default settings, most of the video noise has disappeared. You can clearly see much video noise both on the carpet to the right and the woman's jacket in the background on the left. This frame was shot in an extremely low light setting with only an onboard light. The Magic Bullet's Denoiser works by analyzing each video clip and by using motion estimation algorithms to remove noise from even very low light clips without blurring out the subject and softening the image. The fact that Magic Bullet's Denoiser is so easy to use doesn't mean that there aren't parameters that you can use to tweak your image. The interface of Magic Bullet's Denoiser is exactly the same whether you are using it in After Effects of Final Cut Pro so if you are familiar with it in one application you will be able to use it without any changes to your workflow, in the other. It would have been wiser for the installer to be created only for the applications it was designed to be used in. Oddly enough, Denoiser also installs in Motion but can not be used in that application. The great thing is that the Magic Bullet Denoiser installs and works great at just its own default settings whether you are using Final Cut Pro or Adobe After Effects. Seeing the need for a better tool, Red Giant, a company which produces some of the finest plug-ins for both Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Studio, has recently brought out their own Magic Bullet Denoiser. However, as a result of their use there was definitely some softening of the image. I have tested many 'denoiser' filters and have only found one or two that did a commendable job. Of course there are many other factors that contribute to video noise but the entire focus is where to go from here, when you have footage that simply can't be re-lit or shot. Low light = video noise, there is no doubt of that.
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