Matthew F

The problem is on both tapes shot that day. The footage is definitely underexposed but not to the degree that you can't see what's going on. It can be lightened up in FCP but that just increases the problem of the noise. The noise is primarily in the dark areas. Yes the monitor was used as a reference for the exposure and is part of the reason why the footage was underexposed. Now why there is an excessive amount of grain/noise can't be determined.

Some footage that I shot with the SDX900 last week had an unreasonable amount of noise in it when we took it into the comp. The gain was set at 0 while shooting and the mode was 3:4 50. If anyone knows this camera and has ever accidently done this or knows what might have caused this please let me know. The deck has been used on several other projects and has had no problems before or after this incident. ALSO if anyone has any suggestions as to how to "salvage" the footage please let me know. Any plugins or editing tricks would be great.

Is there any other reference or source for learning more about all the functions of the SDX900? I want to know this camera as well as anyone.