[Tig] Noise & super 16

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Jan 11, 2007, at 4:53 , Lawrence Towers wrote:

> Objecting to noisy material is fine. Objecting to acquisition media is
> prejudicial.

If the noise is indeed noise and not grain, then objections can be
warranted.  If the "noise" is instead grain, then I don't see why there
should be objections, as I think was one of Peter Swinson's points.

> As for "the general lack of HD Noise reduction technology in Telecine
> suites." that's the way it should be. Noise reduction should happen in
> post only when deemed necessary. Especially as it works better as a  
> post
> process rather than in real-time.

there certainly has been abuse of NR in telecine, though I can't at
times distinguish between NR artifacts and compression artifacts,
given what happens to the image upon transmission.

A question for colorists working mainly on TV commercials in
telecine: a certain amount (low, but effective) of noise reduction is
still the rule, is it not?

Rob
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