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July 16th, 2009, 09:28 PM | #16 | |
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I've attached a frame from a clip of the central California coast where the right side of the frame is as shot and the left is using the shadow/highlight filter in CS4. Hope this shows the overall effect. I'm shooting with a Canon 5D MkII. |
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July 17th, 2009, 05:52 AM | #17 |
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Charles,
I played with Vegas a bit and think I have a decent response. Please give me a little grace as the picture you posted was highly processed and downsized and I just copied the posted image and processed it further. I roughly matched the right side using Vegas Pro 8 to the left side you processed using Premiere. I am supplying two photo's with 2 levels of processing: The rights side of Photo 1 uses Vegas Pro 8 with the "Levels" plug-in (standard) with the following settings: All channels Input start 0.258 Input end 0.897 Output start 0.013 Output end 1.000 Gamma 1.000 The right side of Photo 2 uses Vegas Pro 8 + "Level" plug-in described above + Neat Video's noise suppression plug-in ($99). IMO Neat did a nice job cleaning up the artifacts present in your posted image. The Premiere and Vegas renderings as tested have some subtle distinctions in how they handle the water, clouds, mountain detail, and the skyline behind the mountains. Perhaps both could achieve identical results given time? How do you feel about the comparison? Last edited by Roger Shealy; July 17th, 2009 at 12:10 PM. |
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Thanks Roger. If I had known you would do that much I'd have worked for a higher quality clip! Yes, levels is very useful and it looks like Vegas has a good implementation; for some aerial photos levels is all that's needed. And thanks for the report on the Neat Video plugin, that was going to be my next question on the forum, how well does the plugin work for this kind of codec artifacts - and you answered it nicely.
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July 17th, 2009, 03:40 PM | #19 |
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Here's another post I did on Neat a few days ago. I'm very impressed and am amazed how it has helped me recover footage I thought was lost and make good footage look even better. Well worth the $99. http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/what-happ...ion-vegas.html I've even had good results cleaning up point-and-shoot PowerShot movies (Canon A620/S3) footage to make it look better than it ought to look. Great for web posting small files. |
July 19th, 2009, 12:44 AM | #20 | |
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EDIT: I sent an e-mail to Cineform and they answered back saying they know of no bugs concerning playability of Neoscene in CS4. Last edited by David Merrill; July 19th, 2009 at 07:31 PM. |
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