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flyvholm · 12th February 2015, 08:57

@DarkSpace: That is likely what I'll end up doing. I'm just hoping that I can do well enough with noise reduction that I don't have to squish the content too much for poor HDTVs.

@huhn: I also prefer natural looking noise over footage that looks processed and artificial. Unfortunately I think a processed version with much lower noise is going to look better to the average user with a poorly calibrated display. The heavy noise is a result of using ISO 3200+ in night scenes (this clip is ISO 8000 IIRC). May not have been clear, but the film is timelapse produced from DSLR still images. Higher ISO -> shorter exposures -> better time resolution in timelapse -> much smoother aurora footage. Daytime footage with low ISO is no problem.

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flyvholm Semper Tiro Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Denmark Posts: 29	@DarkSpace: That is likely what I'll end up doing. I'm just hoping that I can do well enough with noise reduction that I don't have to squish the content too much for poor HDTVs. @huhn: I also prefer natural looking noise over footage that looks processed and artificial. Unfortunately I think a processed version with much lower noise is going to look better to the average user with a poorly calibrated display. The heavy noise is a result of using ISO 3200+ in night scenes (this clip is ISO 8000 IIRC). May not have been clear, but the film is timelapse produced from DSLR still images. Higher ISO -> shorter exposures -> better time resolution in timelapse -> much smoother aurora footage. Daytime footage with low ISO is no problem.