De-Noise Your Footage WITHOUT Losing Sharpness | Premiere Pro Tutorial

what's up guys it's connor and today we're going to talk about how to de-noise your footage while still maintaining sharpness if you've tried denoising footage in the past you know that the more you denoise your footage the softer it gets and the less detail there is in the image and it's always a trade-off it's always a balancing act but today i'm going to show you a bit of a technique to get around that entirely all you need for this technique is any denoising tool whatsoever it doesn't matter which one you use but if you don't have one yet go back and watch my previous tutorial where i show you a free plugin within adobe premiere that you can use if you have your tool and you're ready to go then i'm going to show you this extra technique to make sure that no matter what tool you're using this approach is going to give you the best final result possible start off by grabbing the clip that you want to denoise and create a duplicate by holding alt and clicking and dragging your clip up to a second layer now we're going to click on this eye icon here to hide our duplicate because we're going to come back to it in a little bit now we're going to go ahead and denoise the bottom layer here and we can do this any way that we like you can use the free method i showed you in my last video or any other tools that you have available for the sake of time i've already gone ahead and denoised my footage with neat video so i'm going to delete this bottom layer and just bring in the denoised version of that clip if we zoom into our image here we can see that we have very clean shadows but we're also looking a little bit soft in the detail on our subject's face if we turn the top layer back on we get all of that detail back but we also get all of that noise back our job now is to figure out a way to combine these two clips head over to the effects tab type in luma key and drag that onto your top clip if you're not familiar with a key it's essentially a way of making part of our image transparent with a luma key we're doing that based on the luminance or the brightness of the image so if we set our threshold to say fifty percent then anything darker than fifty percent will become transparent and everything brighter than fifty percent will be opaque if you don't see where i'm going with this yet we're going to use the luma key to make our shadows transparent on our top clip so that they show through to the shadows that are denoised on our bottom clip now i can start at 0 and start adjusting this threshold but it's really hard for us to see what's happening here because these two clips are nearly identical so we're going to do one extra step go over to the effects tab and type in tint and put this now on our bottom clip i'm going to change the blacks to something really noticeable and easy to spot i don't have a lot of red in this scene so i'm going to make it bright red if i turn this clip off you can see that all my shadow areas are now this bright red which means as i go to my top clip and adjust this threshold it's really easy to see which parts of the image were actually affecting anytime we see red here we know that that's the bottom clip and anytime we don't see red we know that that's our top clip i'm going to click this little drop down arrow just because it lets me make finer tuned adjustments and i'm going to slowly start dragging this up until just all of my darkest shadow areas are red i'm pretty happy with this selection here it's getting most of the darkest shadows but it's not touching anything else so now all that's left to do is to go to our bottom clip turn that tint off and now we're done if we zoom in we can see the results of our hard work here and now we have super clean shadows but we still have a ton of detail and sharpness in our subject's face and you can compare here if i turn this off this is what it looks like if we just denoised the entire image equally and this is what it looks like when we retain that detail and combine the denoised image with the non-denoised image now if you're happy with this then you're done but if you want to tweak it a little bit more you've got two options here you can go back to that bottom layer and denoise it even more because we're not affecting anything that isn't the darkest shadows anyway so you can get away with going ham on this and getting super super clean shadows the other option is if you've still got a little bit of noise and grain in that top layer that you're unhappy with well this is a way that you can de-noise those two layers separately to varying degrees i recommend you do this last in your video process for two reasons first of all denoising plug-ins tend to be really cpu intensive so they can slow down your editing a lot the other reason is that the prominence or visibility of your noise is going to depend on a lot of other factors like how you color grade the image so it's best to save that until last so that you really know just how much denoising you actually need to do this isn't a perfect solution and it doesn't mean that you can just forget about lighting a scene you can just crank your iso and it's going to be fine but this can help you in a pinch or if you just want to add a little bit of extra polish to those shadows if you found this helpful i'd really appreciate you helping me back by supporting the channel through subscribing liking all that stuff that you're very familiar with already and if you have any questions just let me know and i'm more than happy to help you out thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next video

Channel: Connor Gilks

Views: 205,710

Keywords: denoise, remove noise, sharpness, detail, premiere pro, adobe premiere, tutorial, how to, creative cloud

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Length: 4min 49sec (289 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 28 2021