Crazy Noise!

[David Bounds]

Sorry I'm taking awhile. I'm grading lol. I will check all of this next shoot. Thanks everyone! I'm still wondering this question... quick question... If underexposed shots get noise then why have I seen no noise in shoots shot with scarlets where the DP lit very dark for dramatic looks? The Hobbit for example... I know was shot on epic but in any case they shot very dark scenes with hair lights and soft boxes and most of the image was black but ZERO noise. I've seen shorts done like this too. How do they do it?

Regarding your question about deep blacks in The Hobbit and so forth, shots like those are often very brightly lit on set, then brought down in post - i.e. they weren't underexposed at all, quite the opposite. I don't know for sure that's how it was done in that particular case, but it's at least one way to get clean blacks with no noise. I've done some shots before that were intended to be very dark, but on the set you'd almost want sunglasses.

 

[Patrick Tresch]

Ps in Resolve never change drastically the brightness of selected color. This will introduce you horrible type of blurry patterns.

Pat

 

[DL Fitch]

I've gotten some pretty clean 2k images when I needed to lower the resolution that far (mostly for 60fps), but I just wanted to point out that doing it to increase the length of your zoom lens isn't gonna do much - you can get the exact same image by shooting 4k and performing a center-extraction.