What clubs do you go to? Don't lie! You don't go to the clubs! The only club you go to is Sam's Club! Just kidding... Here is a video I made for Exchange LA and Midnight Music Machine to promote a weekly show in the B room at the club. I shot this on a 5d mark ii in extremely low light with only a little LED hot shoe light. So naturally, my ISO was cranked way up to around 6,400 while using the 24-105 f4. I could bring it down a little bit for the shots from the 50mm 1.4 but still it gets a little noisy. So I threw every clip into after effects and de-noised everything individually using Neat Video. I then created custom grain using photoshop techniques actually... and sharpened the video then reconnected the footage to Premiere. After I de-noised all the footage, it really started to look super clean! I can't believe the quality of video I can capture in such minimally lit areas! Take a look at the main video and then you can check out the side by side De-noised and raw video!

Midnight Music Machine

*NOTE: It's kind of hard to tell a huge difference in the low quality, heavily compressed streaming H.264. For a better/closer look at the footage, download the video in "Original Size." Here is a video showing before and after I reduce noise in post. I shot this footage using a canon 5d mark ii in extreme low light at ISO 6400. The mark ii's don't handle high ISO quite as well as the mark iii so it is necessary to reduce noise in post. After I take the noise out I add grain back in to give it a less digital, more organic and filmic look.