7D Moire/aliasing !

[Martin Guitar]

On my last project i had to film the sea and i knew moire would be a big issue. Here's the trick i used to remove it.

I masked the sea and desaturated the water to black and white. I then applied a tint filter on top of it to match the color of the sky. It worked for me so i wanted to share. I did it in Vegas but you can do this with any software.

Looks real good even in motion. Of course it's not perfect but it's a good workaround. Here are the before after pics.

Before:



After:

[Khoi Pham]

You don't have to do all that, just load your clip into photoshop and use noise reduction and reduced color noise and done and will be much better like this.

[Jon Fairhurst]

Blurring the color can work too. I did that on some woodgrain that had green and red moire (the red looked okay, but the green was ugly.) After blurring the colors together, the result was very natural.