Enjoy all, please add your tips for avoiding noise below so it becomes a treasure trove of knowledge! :)

Been following you for a while - always a pleasure to watch your videoes! Always well thought out and explained. Merry Christmas!

All good tips. I know you mention not wanting to tell people to get lights, but as an event shooter, they cost less than upgrading a camera or lens and can be rather essential for some shots. Small light panels can be pretty cheap (even ones with remote controls and phone apps). Toss one (or two since you have a remote to turn them on) on a light stand or hold it in your hand (above the subjects eye level) when you find yourself in a situation where the room is too dark to get a good shot. I went with a couple cheapo lights from Yongnuo that have worked well for the last few years.

this is a great video I learned more than just avoiding noise. thank you!

Pretty much knew all this but still enjoyed watching you confirm it 😬

I reached most of these same conclusions about noise, but was curious if other people felt the same way, so thanks for making this video! I pretty much do exactly the same except I prefer false color to waveforms. Thanks brother, just subscribed!

This is a very interesting video and will definitely help me with my future videos on my channel because I had some issues with noise in the shadows!

Always enjoy your videos. Thank you.

Harv, I like the way you tell us what you are going to cover in the video in just the first few seconds.

Thanks a lot, great info about ISO, I've never thought about that

Brilliant video thanks. I’ve really struggled with noise in video thanks for the tips.👍

I needed this! Thanks!

That's awesome information. You are awesome harv

Thanks for the explanation. 👍

Your channel content is absolutely amazing!!! Never got to comment because I mostly watch on Tv! I picked up my phone just to comment! Keep it up🙏🏾

fantastic video. thanks, needed to see this. perfect

About Battlestar Galactica which I agree is an awesome show. One of the best sci-fi shows of all time! I've always wondered if the noise in the image on that show has been left on purpose to reflect the "gritty" nature of the show. Especially the scenes on the hangar deck.

great info, fixed my problem

Thanks man for review

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Excellent video. Thanks mate

Great recommendation re prefering a higher ISO over cranking up light in post. The technical reason behind is quite simple, but nobody talks about it: The absolute level of the noise floor from the sensor is always (nearly) the same, but far below visibility in the lights. So, when cranking up the shadows in post, the noise floor gets amplified, too - that's where the ugly noise in the shadows comes from. Regarding your general recommendation regarding "always overexpose Log-footage" I would not fully agree with. Here my thoughts, backed from some experience: Indeed, Log profiles add a bit more headroom towards the lights (lets say up to 2 stops) - but this comes from how the camera SW encodes the sensor readout, assuming the sensor provides the exposure headroom in the lights. Good sensors tend to offer more dynamic headroom than linear readout and processing of the readoud in the camera (limitation of 8 or even 10 bits). That's why encoding the sensor readout with a Log-curve adds some headroom in the lights. But once you overexposed the sensor in the highlights it does not matter which picture profile you are in - the highlights are flat white, and no Log-curve will help any longer. So, my recommendation from some poor experience with just overexposing by 2 Stops in Log is - and, here we're getting in sync again: - Prefer higher ISO, especially when the camera has dual ISO - Watch the highlights, e.g. with false colors, histogram, wave form monitor, zebras. - If you need to expose for some 42 IRE (e.g. for getting a face exposed correctly), then give up the highlights A common mistake when using Log-profile on the camera is to set the HDMI output that goes into the monitor at a Rec709 conversion LUT and forcing the monitor to analyse the Rec709 HDMI output with its built-in exposure tools - this automatically leads to overexposed shots with the highlights gone. Instead, you need to set the HDMI output to native (here Log) and select the Rec709 conversion in the monitor. Another great help is to crank camera exposure up and watch the histogram, zebra, or waveform monitor and watch out when it start clipping. For example, my S1H clips slightly above 90%, and not at 100%. Hopes this helps to get clean and nicely exposed footage.

Great video ;) Thanks !

Thank you ❤️

hey uhh i need some help so recently i keep on hearing some piano noises when i an editing and when i published the video on youtube it still played that piano noise. can you help sir? thank you

But I wanna more about the relation of noise and iso because when I increase the iso , my footage get noise

nice explained thanks

You think that's noise? You've never seen noise! XD

thank you kind sir 👍🏽

very useful video

Good tip on high iso thanks and shooting to right

Hey man. I wasn’t gonna subscribe but you asked so nicely so I did. 👍🏽

Just what i needed

So my question is, I have done some filming of like graduation events at night outside in a well lighted stadium but I notice the night sky has a lot of noise in it, is there any tip on how i can correct this? The rest of the video content looks great, and no ones really noticed except me because i know its there. I have a Cannon 80D

very simple and to the point. Thanks. You have earned a subscriber, with the notification bell turned on.

I've already filmed my clips and it's grainy/noisy all over the picture because we were in a bad lit area. Also I don't understand how ISO works or how to change. Can I fix the noice in a editing program? how?

Help pls 😢 🙏.. i have my canon eos 750D, whenever i shoot in good light but it has noise on my background, also whenever there is grey and black colors near or back. What should i do! My lense is typical 18-55 mm.. what shoud i do?

If you know, you want a lowkey light set-up isn't a low iso better though? I saw a video on cinema IQ that adressed this where he also said that if you are filming in daylight, you should actually not go for the lowest possible ISO, but that a ISO a little higher actually performed better - and a low ISO actually treats your shadows better, than if you were to have the same exposure of those shadows with a higher ISO.

I do "podcast" style videos on my Samsung s23, when I edit and do the zoom in effect.....it gets really grainy. So confused as to why? Liked video 👍

Nice work.

Do you have any suggestions as to what could be causing EXTREME noise during a properly-lit shoot? I shot a conference at f2.8, native ISO 3200 (bmpcc 6k) and the presenters were green on the false colors. But they were incredibly noisy. Then the black drapes (less surprisingly) behind them were just lit up with noise. It did this both in braw and ProRes. Converting to 709 seemed to help some but I still had to apply NR to the point where the faces became blobs to make the footage usable. Again, the faces were properly exposed. Ideas?

Hey there, thanks for the help, managed to set an auto iso range for my camera, and it looks better already!

If I use filmic pro and shoot 50fps with 25fps playback, I get all the shadows slow motion noise clipping. What am I doing wrong?

So u can't record video without noise right?

shot my video with Nikon D7000 at 200 ISO and F50, still showing noise in the background what should I do? I only used 1 Key Light

2:52 What is meant exactly by overexposing? Meaning that you higher the ISO or that you have more stronger lights on set?

ISO 12 thousand which camera?

Thanks so much for the great video, I'm now struggling on which prime lens to buy for my Sony Alfa 7 iii, I don't have any, I also want to use it on my new RSC2 DJI, I have only one lens which is 24-70 Sony Zeiss, I got all recommendations but not sure which will be the best for me, Sony FE 24mm f/1.4 GM or maybe Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G, I'm also not sure of the series of the lenses, which means what, would love to hear what you can recommend me. I do now mostly video and very diverse, it can be nature, landscape, flowers, people etc... Thanks so much for any help. Tal.

I understand clearly what should i do now... but whatt happen if i using auto iso ?

neat video is like a better lens

You had me at BG fanboydom...

Is there a way to decrease noise in a already made video Through an app ?

some people say keep iso lower and some say higher ,what shoud i do

I need you help bro

What lens should I use for a lumix fz82

Ironically, I'd like to increase noise. How would I go about that?

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You face in the thumbnail on the noise side looks scary