From the course: Video Production and Post Tips

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

What is noise?

What is noise?

From the course: Video Production and Post Tips

Start my 1-month free trial

What is noise?

- Hi, my name's Rich Harrington. - And I'm Robbie Carman. - And this week we're going to tackle a very common problem which affects post-production and that's noise. - Yeah, noise is kind of, well, the bane of my existence. I don't know what it is, every time I see a noisy shot I kind of, you know, freak out a little bit, right? After all, it boggles my mind that, you know, we're shooting with such expensive, you know, large sensor cameras, why is noise such a common problem? - I can tell you why. It's because people over rely on those sensors and they don't see it. They're looking at it on a small display area, a view finder, and they don't see it and they're used to being able to get by with lighting less and then it leads to noise, so we have better cameras but, to be honest, many people have gotten lazier in their production. - I think that's really, really true, especially in this day in age of sort of, you know, Running Gun, sort of documentary on The Fly kind of thing, and…

Contents