How To Remove Noise From Video in After Effects - No Plugins
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Got a problem with grainy footage? In this tutorial I will show you how to remove noise and grain from your video using Adobe After Effects.
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Explanation starts at 4:00 minutes. If you want to save 4 minutes of your life, just jump to this point.
thank you. i always hate useless out of topic blabbing.
The beginning is useful to know tho.
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@@jaredkelnhofer No offense, but most people at the level of wanting to do this already knows what he said at the beginning. We just want to know how to use this software to do it. Adobe After Effects isn't for beginners. Most people can do all they need to do in Adobe Premiere alone.
Thanks
Wow, you've helped me to rescue a lot of the quality that I'd thought I'd lost. Noise reduction will never be perfect, but I haven't seen somebody break it down more effectively than you. Bravo!
Thank you for leaving the comment! It's nice to hear that people find my tutorial helpful :)
6 Years later and this is still helping people. Great job explaining how each setting works. I do a lot of 3D rendering in blender and I hate the included denoiser, so I usually export noisy renders. Ae might just be my saving grace! Thanks!
Many people who make these tutorials are not true experts and have no business instructing others. However you know what you are talking about. Another great video.
Oh my god! You uploaded this video yesterday and today I need to deal with grainy footage! You are some kinda magician!
Haha, that worked out surprisingly well. I do hope you find the tutorial helpful. As has been pointed out a few times by now, try to avoid exporting from Premiere and rather copy/paste the clip across into AE to avoid encoding it multiple times - it'll keep your quality up :)
Yes the tutorial was helpful. Thanks and keep up the good work!
@@SurfacedStudio so are you using Adobe Premiere Pro to get rid of the noise or Adobe After Effects? The video says your are using Adobe Premiere Pro but the description below says you are using Adobe After Effects.
@@zealotsofisrael-melchizede6557 If you check the video you'll find out :) People start out in Premiere, but for solid noise removal (without plugins) you'll need to use After Effects
One GREAT TRICK that's MISSING from this Tutorial:
Mostly dark areas are affected by grain. So doublicate your footage, add a luma key to the top layer to mask out the dark areas, add remove grain to both layers and boost the removal at the bottom layer, so that darker areas are affected more!
Any chance you can show a step by step vid?
This tutorial spreads a few bits of bad information.
1) Exporting intermediate footage as H.264? Really bad. The footage is already 4:2:0 and you're re-compressing it again to 4:2:0. That will make the samples remove grain uses worse than they could have been. Should export to prores, lagarith, dnxhd, or use dynamic link (or better yet... just import the footage into AE) to retain the quality of the footage. Also running this effect in 16 bit would improve the results as well.
2) You're really messing up the effect by ONLY taking samples from dark areas, it really screwed up your final result. The samples the effect auto-guessed were much better than the one you ended up manually choosing. You should have the samples spread out across as wide a selection of luma values as possible. In your example, the effect had no idea what to do with noise in brighter areas, it was forced to use the data from the dark areas to guess at what to do in the light areas. THat's why your face ended up losing a TON of detail.
I appreciate the feedback :) 1) happened because of poor planning on my side and I've pinned a few comments relating to a better work flow for that to the top of the comment list. Personally I just c/p across from PP to AE, but was trying to get an easier 'follow along' starting point starting from AE. 2) That is good to know
Yep, never apply important effects to anything other than raw or intermediate material which has been compressed with a least lossy codec - not the most!
Thanks Greg
Not entirely true. The benefit of using a lossy codec is that information (detail) gets thrown out in the process. Such information includes noise. By re-encoding you're effectively solving part of the problem. However, the better way is to export a lossless intermediary, then apply the desired effects and then encode the cleaned up footage to your desired delivery codec (which usually is h.264 or h.265).
Thanks for the incredibly succinct and pragmatic explanations. Very rare to see this from tutorials on TH-cam! Looking forward to trying this tonight.
Thank you for the awesome feedback :) Great to hear you enjoyed the video!
I don't fiddle much on the Remove Grain effect because I don't know much of the settings. Thanks for the in-depth explanation about this. Your content is awesome as always.
Thank you for the comment :D Glad to hear you enjoyed the tutorial!
I can't even begin to tell you how helpful this was. Thank you so much!
Glad to hear you found it useful!
This is amazing I was doing a job and could not reshoot the footage this saved the video.
Glad to hear the video helped :)
You saved me hundreds of dollars from getting a plugin!!! Didn't know the AF grain removal was this powerful
It's pretty cool :) Doesn't work in all situations, but for most stuff it comes in really handy!
This video is a God send. Most how-to videos don't really explain what everything does, so I wasn't expecting much when I clicked on this link, but I was pleasantly surprised. You helped me to save my footage, thank you!
Thank you so much for the awesome comment :) Very happy to hear that you found the tutorial helpful!
best tutorial for this such amazing results deserves 1,000,000 views
Thank you very much :)
your welcome helped me so much and my file went up to 6 gigs even though its exported as a 3 min video, anything i can do without starting over or having the file huge thanks..
Change your export format or settings - sounds like you're using something like AVI (uncompressed)
you are really the best teacher for after affect specially for beginner
i mostly only watch you and andrew kramer ,keep it up
Thank you very much for leaving the comment :)
Grabbed a quick shot with my phone and it came out with more noise than expected. (Even though I had a ton of light.) Helped save me having to re-setup the scene. Thanks.
You're welcome, glad to hear you found the video useful :)
Thanks for this excellent tutorial! I shot images with my drone in a dark canyon so the result is really grainy... I experienced compass errors and my drone started to drift so I really don't want to go there again. Thanks to you the images taken will be usable, you made my day!
Glad to hear you found the tutorial helpful! :)
Finally, someone who clearly explains this tool.
Glad to hear you found the video useful :)
VERY clear tutorial! Thanks!
Great video! All of the little details you include really make navigating the program easy. Thanks!!
No worries, glad you liked it!
Thanks, Tobias! I found this very useful and will play with it in AE. I sometimes forget to add enough light.
Ha, I'm the same, I feel I have been getting better though lately at watching the light I use when I film. At least it's not too hard to clean up (reasonable) amounts of noise if you do end up in the ditch though
Thanks to your tutorial!
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May the force be with you indeed!
Thank you so much for sharing. I am a nubi and your direction was very clear and concise. Very inspired. Wishing you continued success.
Thank you so much for the kind words :) All the best to you too!
I am officially a fan!!!! great work !
Thank you :D
Just in time. I needed this just now!
That worked out well :D
Absolute legend. Nice one
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i love your tutorials
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Hi Tobias, I am always amazed to see the extant of your knowledge and i am so thanksfull that you share that with all of us. Great tuto again !
Don't know whether I'd call it 'knowledge' so much as just random bits of information, but I do appreciate the feedback and glad to hear you found the video helpful!
you, sir might have just saved my life! Amazing video and so easy to follow!!
Thank you for the friendly comment! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial :)
Great tutorials in this channel! Thanks
Great to hear you're enjoying my tutorials :)
Thank you for sharing this tutorial
You’re welcome 😊
Oh man! Why haven't I heard about this effect befeore?! Many thanks. It will help A LOT!
It's been there for a while :D Glad you liked the video!
Thank you very much! Very thorough tutorial
Glad to hear you liked it!
Thank you friend! You saved my day.
This saved me money on plugins. Great way to get grain out of Filmic Pro footage. For some reason in properly exposed video with the ISO as low as possible (ISO 50) the footage turns out grainy. This helped to clean up my 4K footage out of my Google Pixel 2 XL using Filmic Pro.
That's awesome :) Great to hear you got some value out of this tutorial and got your noise fixed! Thanks for the comment
This tutorial is a life saver
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Very helpful video. Thank you.
Glad to hear :)
Thanks so much! This saved me from rendering hours of stuff over again in maya !
Well done.. concise and helpful.
Glad to hear you like it :)
This is amazing, thank you for this tutorial, I've been needing this for a while.
Thank you for the awesome feedback!
exactly what i needed Thanks
That's great to hear, thank you :)
Another excellent tutorial !
Thank you :D
Thank you so much! All those confusing settings make sense now :)
You are welcome and thank you very much for the awesome feedback! :) Glad to hear you found it helpful!
detail, clear, and smooth explanation, big thanks mate 😍
Awesome to hear, thank you :D
Fantastic Tutorial!! Thanks for being so thorough
Thank you for taking the time to leave this positive comment :D
Wow I will try, amazing !! Thanks
Thanks! Have fun :)
great video. very clear and informative direction. thanks
You're welcome, glad to hear you liked it :)
you saved my life, thank you!
Glad to hear that!
Wonderful.
You are the master.
+Sameir Ali I don't know about that but I am sure glad you liked the video!
Definitely, learning from you. :)
Thanks for sharing... Very helpful...
No worries, glad you found it helpful!
Thanks for the tips! Great video!
Thanks man :)
You're welcome! :D Thanks again for the tips
Mate you explained everything great, thanks.
Thanks man!
Excellent tutorial! Thank you for sharing this!
No worries, glad you liked it!
Thank you so much! Helped a lot! ♥
That's great to hear :)
Thank you. Very well done
You’re welcome :)
Yes the tutorial was helpful. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Glad to hear, thank you :)
This is a game changer for 3d rendering
Most 3D tools actually include pretty powerful denoising these days - but it's nice to know that there's also still things you can do to save your footage after the fact th-cam.com/video/YtyPA-KqGU4/w-d-xo.html
@@SurfacedStudio yes but the denoisers that are included only work well on still images also great video.
They work best when you're using the 3D tool to do the actual rendering - if you render out an animation/video from the 3D program they're a godsend!
Why should i export the clip in Premier Pro? The dynamic Link would also get it in After Effects.
When using dynamic linking, playback can get worse in Premier the more/heavier AE comps you have.
That's why you just "undo" in Premiere after dynamic linking.... You get the footage into AE WITHOUT mindlessly re-encoding it, and your timeline doesn't get slow in Premiere either.
I should have probably gone over that process a little different. Personally I'd just copy/paste across to AE so you're working with the original footage to denoise it. As @aaronhintondotcom pointed the less encoding you do the better. I was just trying to find a cleaner transition into the AE part of the tutorial and give people a file from that point to work along with
Dynamic Link requires a really powerful PC for everything to run as usual. I have a $3000 gaming laptop from 2017 that struggles.
whoa this worked really well.. Thank you!
No worries :) Glad to hear!
Thanks mate! Improve my video quality a lot!!
Great to hear, thank you!
@@SurfacedStudio Really! not bad at all!!
Thank you so much! Sir!
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Thank you! This is the ONLY video/webiste/fourm that actually helped. The issue was that I didn't click the en_US folder.... Fixed it all. Thank mate!
Wow, thank you very much for the great feedback! :) Glad you found it helpful!
oh my goodness I absolutely needed this :D thank u!!
You are very welcome :) Thanks for the comment!
Hey ! 👋AWESOME VIDEO AS ALWAYS!!! Helped me a million!!!
Wooo! Thank you for the awesome comment - and for ALWAYS commenting :D I really appreciate the support!
Surfaced Studio 🙏🙏🙏😭🤗😁👋👋
You're the best! This tutorial has really helped me. Thank you!
Thanks for this!
You're welcome!
THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!!!!! YOU SAVED ME!!!!!
+Tek Rah :D
thank youuuuu sooo much!!
You're very welcome!
you are a life saver thank you
You have saved a man's life today. As in me. Thanks!
Glad to hear you found the tutorial helpful :D
This is my reference for denoise-ing... Great vid keep it up!
Very nice!
Thanks you. Very useful. Regards from argentina.
That's great to hear, thank you for the comment! :)
Wow, thank you so much for this!!! Truly appreciate it 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
You're welcome!
Thank you, it was helpful
Glad to hear!
Hello. Very good tutorial. One question: Is it better to remove noise before or after color correction?
Personally I would do it before, but there isn't really a 'right' or 'wrong' way to do it :D
very good
I do really Appreciate this video
Thanks for sharing this very useful tips. Jenjen
You’re very welcome ☺️
Great video thanks for the information!
No worries, great to hear you liked it! :)
Thank You.... You just Saved my life! 😁
You’re welcome :) Glad you found it helpful!
Thanks for the tutorial. As I have been working on ripping old dvds and fixing the color and denoise/sharpen as much as possible without making to much artifacts. I noticed while watching the video on your right shoulder there are around 4 stuck or missing pixels. I thought it was my LCD but it follows into after effects. So it looks to be your camera and didn't know if you where aware or have gotten a new one since this.
Thanks for the comment :) It's an old camera so no surprise it's not working all that great any more
Great! Subscribed! 🙂
Thank you!
You are welcome!
it really helped, thank You
That's great to hear, thank you :D
Nice video
sir, for screen capturing which software u use...
I use Movavi screen capture
thanks
So helpful. Thanks Tobias.
-Justin
Thanks Justin :)
You could also right click the footage and select > Replace with After Effect composition to quickly edit it between AE and Premiere without having to export it. ^ ^
Yup you can do that too. You can even select the clip in PP and then 'paste' it into a Comp in AE :) th-cam.com/video/qs42sTuBV4I/w-d-xo.html
Best tutorial
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Thank you again for this !
You are very welcome :)
Thank you!
No worries :)
Great video. One point worth noting: I was struggling to get this to work AT ALL. I then realized that the source frame is SUPER important. My video has a fade in, so it was looking at frame zero on a black screen. I finally figured out I need to move the source frame to much later in the video. Otherwise, the effect doesn't work at all. I randomly picked a large number. Do you know if there's a way to pick the source frame based on where your cursor is in the time line? Answer: figured out that you can see the frame number next to the frame rate (in my case, I used 4713). Again, this is a very important starting point for using this effect, since the source points will move based on your moving footage.
Good point :) Hopefully the comment will be able to help someone else stuck with the same issue!
Thanks a lot for pointing that out, man! I was going insane. 😀
Which screen recorder is this?
Movavi Screen Capture
Surfaced Studio thank you 🙂
awesome !!!! thanks sr
You're welcome :)
you are life saver cheers
Ah nonsense! Glad it sounds like you got something useful out of the video though :D
@@SurfacedStudio, of course, it helped. Mistakenly my team shooted video in 6400 ISO, it was outdoor footage and had horrible noise I was able to reduce it through your video
@@Suneela :D
Nice understanding
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Awesome video man
THanks you are a true hero
Thanks man! Glad to hear you enjoyed the tutorial :)
i can`t thank you enough xD i´ve looked for a tutorial like that a long time :)
Great to hear you finally found one :D
great video. Thanks :)
Glad you liked it!
Buddy You ROCK!
Thanks man!
Super hero
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Great video, thank you! And thank you for sharing som many great tutorials. I wondered how you made the "flaming" circle with the number 2 and letters: Beginner, up in the right corner in the start of this video :-) Have you made a tutorial for that effect?
Hi and thank you :)
No I don't have a tutorial for that - I created that animation using the (free) Saber plugin from Video Copilot. They have a really great tutorial on their official channel that's worth checking out :)
@@SurfacedStudio Thank you so very much! :-) Getting right to it. :-) And again thanks for all your hard effort into making these great tutorials for us.
Thanks for the vid! As you mentioned, it would be great if you ever make a video comparing the AE remove grain effect VS. Neat Video, Denoiser and/or other plugins or techniques.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :) I will think about it. I have Denoiser, but don't have Neat Video. In general, Denoiser is a lot faster as it's GPU accelerated - and easier to use