Is it always expected of us colorists to fix noisy footage?
full ress screenshots if you're interested in seeing the shot's true grain: https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/45a34b89-f19a-49a0-9600-b8a298bbfa17
Hello everyone.
Just wanted to get some more professional opinions from some professional colourists :)
Not sure how well the screenshots ive taken will show how grainy the footage really is but essentially I've been supplied a load of shots to grade that are incredibly noisy. The grain in the low ends basically looks like TV static.
This project had two DP's (first one left at some point, not sure why)
The shot you see above was shot by the first DP who was using a Blackmagic Pocket 4K. All of the overly noisy shots all come from this first DP.
The second DP used an Arri camera and all shots from them look great.
Are we as colorists always expected to fix overly noisy footage like this or can I defend my case and blame the first DP for a lot of these shots been extremely hard to fix lol?
Thank you everyone :)