Okay so if I blur the area, then the noise goes away somewhat from the blur, you're saying.
I want to upload it, but when I export it from after effects, back into Premiere Pro, it looks the same without the changes I made. I am trying to figure out how to make it look the same with the modified curves, after exporting. I played around more and the blur option which helps is 'blend with original'. That reduced a lot of the noise, and the dark noisy parts look much better. There is still some noise, that is more noticeable on slightly brighter parts still. One thing I noticed is this: when the actor dressed all in black comes near an actor dressed in red, the actor in red becomes a lot more noisier.
Okay basically I have a short film which some people with connections want to see after seeing some samples. I have a few shots that are really noisy compared to the rest, but have to be in there to make sense. I need to make so the noisy shots will not be distracting once they come, since other films I heard have done poorly from having shots that look very low quality compared to the rest. I don't have the money for neatvideo or other plug ins right now, but I could reduce it in photoshop. It would take a while, and I have other photoshopping I have to do on top of that before June, since I told everyone I would try to get it done before then.
I could add more noise to the whole movie, to make the movie more watchable, as was suggested on here before, but how much noise is too much? Or should I add grain instead, since most agree that grain looks better?
