Topic: Need help Animating dark scene

I'm animating a dark scene for my next "Dark Dramatic" brickfilm. I hear you must light the set very brightly and then trun the exposure and grain down, but, when I do that, it always comes out too dark and there is this flickery line that keeps flickering across the screen, < This has been my worst problem, I don't know how to get rid of that, I'll try to get up a screen shot soon showing what it looks like, if this has happened to anyone else please tell me. And if there is another method to get good quality dark lighting with the Quick cam 9000 that would help. Please help me or I'll have to cancel this too like my new year film, and that will let down all my voice actors, especially Doyle Productions, he sent lines and got a part for both films.

So please, I'd like some help on this. mini/smile

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Re: Need help Animating dark scene

I know the lines you're talking about. You can reduce them by turning up the video noise, but if they're really bad, then keep your gain down and exposure up. Generally, when the gain is higher than the exposure, the lines appear.

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Re: Need help Animating dark scene

You could do it in post-production, worse case, you could get someone to do it for you digitally.

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I turn the lights out in the room and have just very little light on the set... Thats how i did this shot... I use a QCP9000.
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ive never heard of your mentioned technique...

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Wow nice shot, not grainy one bit.

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Nice, but once he walks to the left, you cant see it.

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I usually do it in post-production.

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Re: Need help Animating dark scene

In some editing programs (and even a few frame capture programs) there is a feature called Noise Removal where you can get rid of grain in low light situations. Lighting the set normally and turning down the exposure or upping the shutter doesn't always give the best results. It usually looks more realistic to light it like it really is at night, i.e. a distant/ambient lamp covered in blue cellophane along with a few street lights. The noise removal feature can be used in both your situation and the one I described.

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Re: Need help Animating dark scene

Thanks guys, I'll give these suggestions a go and see which comes out best. mini/smile

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Here is my attempt:Link
Not very good I know I might need a bit more light to make my Camera focus. The video was origianilly too dark but I used brightener on Sony Vegas.

Last edited by MooCJ (February 1, 2009 (07:52pm))