Narrator: Here is another practise activity,
but this one's a little bit tougher than the previous one.
So I'm actually just going to walk you through it.
The activity or the challenge is to remove noise
from your video.
What I mean by noise is when you shoot with a camera
and you boost up the ISO to make it brighter,
this happens a lot when you're shooting at night,
if you're shooting, you know, event videography
at a wedding or something like that.
You just need to boost your ISO to be able to see.
I shot this clip of my cat Zora, and she was under
the bed, and this was actually shot during the day.
It was really dark down there, but this was shot
with 64,000 ISO.
That's really, really high, and that's why when I
zoom in and I go over here, especially in the darker
parts where there's not as much detail,
you can see all of this noise.
It's kind of like digital grain that you get.
So how do we fix that?
We're going to fix it using After Effects.
And I know you may not have After Effects,
but if you have subscribed to Adobe Creative Cloud,
you should be able to download After Effects.
It comes with any Creative Cloud subscription.
And I do a lot of work with After Effects
and Premiere Pro combined.
And the great thing about it is that
you can use them together seamlessly.
They kind of talk to each other.
And I'm going to show you how to do that right now.
First, go ahead and open After Effects,
and you don't need to know how to use After Effects
to learn what I'm going to teach you in this class.
This is a completely different course that I have
if you want to learn yourself.
You can learn how to use Adobe After Effects.
But for now just open it,
and you don't even have to open it.
All you have to do is go to your Premiere Pro clip
that you want to edit in After Effects.
Right click it and say
Replace With After Effects Composition.
What's going to happen is it's going to open up
in Adobe Premiere Pro.
You're going to want to save this project,
so just click command-S.
And it might prompt you before.
And just save it as whatever.
I'm going to save it as Practise.
And I was already playing around with this,
so I'm going to replace that.
After Effects works somewhat similar to a video editor,
but it's really different, so it might be kind of confusing,
but you have your timeline down here with your clips,
you have your project bin over here with your video files
and your sequences, or in After Effects
we call them compositions.
You have your composition window where you see what
you're working on in the middle.
And then you have all sorts of other windows that you
can go open and close by going up to Window and
then checking them on and off.
The only one you need to have on
is this Effects & Presets panel.
Go to your Effects & Presets and type in Remove Grain.
It's under the Noise & Grain folder.
And just literally drag and drop it either right here
in the middle of your composition window or
down here on this layer.
What happens is your Effects Control panel, similar
to in Premiere Pro, will pop up, and the Remove Grain
setting pops up.
We have this preview little square that shows us
what it's actually going to look like.
And we can move this around by clicking in the middle
and dragging it over.
And I'm going to do that to somewhere
where I can see more of the grain.
Then I'm going to zoom in.
I can do that by clicking this little percentage.
It might be a little bit different on your computer
depending on how big your resolution is.
And I'm going to say 100.
And then with my hand, by pressing the space bar
on your keyboard, I can click on this composition window
and move it around.
So just make sure you're pressing hand so you're not
actually moving the clip around,
but just the composition itself.
So you can already see that this has helped a little bit.
Inside the box there's less noise than outside.
We can go down to our Noise Reduction Settings
and quickly just increase the Noise Reduction to two,
and then the Passes, let's just drag all the way up
to six to get it all the way as good as possible.
To preview the whole clip, you can change this
Viewing Mode from Preview to Final Output.
It's going to process it and then it will show you
what it looks like.
And if we turn this effect on and off by clicking
this fx button right here, we can see it
on, off, on, off.
And you can see how much that actually does.
There's a lot of more advanced fine tuning you can do,
but for us, all you need to do is really just increase
the noise reduction to however much you want
and then increase the passes as well,
which will do it even better.
I'm going to change the view percentage to Fit up to 100%.
The one thing that increasing noise reduction does is
it can make everything seem a little bit blurry,
so if we turn this on and off, you might be able to tell
a little bit of a decrease in the sharpness,
but for this image, it actually does a pretty good job.
So now in Adobe After Effects, we've added the noise removal
or the grain removal.
How do we get this clip back to Premiere Pro
with this effect on it?
All we have to do is tab over or go back
to Adobe Premiere Pro.
In our sequence, our clip has turned into this little
red linked composition.
And if we go to our project, we have this
Practise Linked Composition.
This is taking it from After Effects, and it has replaced
it with the After Effects file.
So if you want to get back to it, what you can do is
right click it and go to Edit Original.
And it will open up this project in After Effects
if you've already closed it down.
So that's how you use what's called the Adobe Dynamic Link
to edit a project in After Effects and Premiere Pro.
There's all kinds of other things you can do with
After Effects including more professional green screen
editing, adding all kinds of effects, and even
titles and graphics.
That's something for another course and something
for another day, but it is good to know that there
are some really cool effects that you can quickly add
like this grain removal one.
Thank you so much for watching.
If you have any questions about this effect or any others,
let me know, and I'll try to respond as soon as possible
or add another lesson to the course.
Bye.