Grade School: Master Noise Reduction in DaVinci Resolve
Noise reduction is a complex topic that you want to get right — it's the easiest tool for making your image scream "HEY LOOK WHAT THE COLORIST DID!" And as colorists, we don't want that — we want our images looking beautiful without any clear indication of what work happened to make them look that way so the audience is captured instead of distracted.
In this livestream I'll dive into your noise reduction questions to help you apply it in a way that gives you a beautiful image while your tools go unnoticed — like a pro. This video is an extension from this previously recorded video: • How use noise reduction like a pro in DaVi...
00:47 Introduction
01:55 Initial thoughts
10:22 Does converting your image to linear and then apply noise reduction consume less resources in your computer?
11:42 What is the difference between chroma and luma noise?
18:08 Do you have a ‘’go-to’’ setting when you’re short on time and need to apply noise reduction?
20:33 Is it worth it to apply noise reduction if you apply grain and your final deliverable is internet, considering the final compression and how much it slows your system?
23:42 What’s your take on third party noise reduction plugins?
26:07 Should we apply noise reduction before sending a clip to VFX?
28:34 How would you use temporal noise reduction? What is motion range?
34:41 Is there any reason to not use the highlight mode when using NR to see which pixels are getting affected?
39:39 Explaining the ‘’motion’’ setting inside the temporal noise reduction tab
40:11 Is it correct to ungang chroma and luma to try working in the chroma section before going to luma if needed?
41:57 Is the blue channel the most noisy?
44:14 Should we split the image into RGB channels and target a specific channel for noise reduction?
46:44 When grading film scans or baked in noise texture from the camera how should we treat the image to extract the noise without removing the grain intended?
51:35 Does noise reduction help when a shot has an oversaturated color in it like neon lights or clipping reds?
54:16 Why isn't the Red channel completely red, the green channel completely green and the blue channel completely blue when we use the splitter combiner? How could there be other colors in a channel like in the RGB mixer?
58:37 What is the best order of operations when applying noise reduction?
1:05:18 Final thoughts and conclusions
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