Posted by yarock on 11/26/06 17:31

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I shot a wedding yesterday(for another company) with my new Canon H1.
The ceremony footage was fine, but the 2 hour reception (speeches,
songs, cake cut,interviews, etc) are horrendous. Before I left for the
job, I set up a low light preset based on what I used to use with my
XL2(before selling it).I thought that my XL2 preset also included NR,
so I chose NR1(noise reduction 1). Although I couldn't see it in the
viewfinder, the resuts were bizarre ghosting, and a fuzzy look.
I figured out what caused the problem by duplicating the conditions at
home (low light,12db gain), and by zeroing out the preset changes
(master ped,coring, and set up-all up) one at a time.I realized that
nr1 was the culprit.I went back to the H1 manual and it warns against
panning while using noise reduction 1...DUH.
.. The big question is, is there anything that can be done in post to
make the footage less hideous? Are there any plug ins that can remove
this "trailing afterimage"? The sinking feeling in my gut tells me that
there's nothing I can do, because the ghosting is part of the recorded
image. But maybe someone has a miracle solution....
We edit with PPRO 2.0. If anyone else has had the same problem,and if
anyone has a soulution to salvage the footage, please post.
Thanks
Bruce Yarock

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