Night recording sucks! and usual 5 hours to render 5 minutes clip?

There were tons of noise and I had to learn all these techniques to remove it. I would just have to say night video recording sucks.

I've worked on premier cs6. used red giant denoiser and magic bullet looks. Also, It was my first time record video capturing an event. I had no information how the man was going to propose (the client basically just told me to meet me up there at the time...)

and here are my questions.... the length is 4 minutes and took 5 hours to render. I have i7, Cuda support graphic card, 8gb ram.... is it because of layers of effects? exported h.264 vimeo 1080p though

https://vimeo.com/8320​4869

What camera are you shooting with? No, low-light shooting isn't ideal. And yes there is a lot of post to be done.

You say you had no information and were just asked to be met there. You should always know what you are walking into. Location, type of lighting available, what he plans on doing (at least a general idea) etc. All of those factors could dramatically affect what you need to do to capture what you need to capture.

You mention it was your first time capturing an event. Things like this help people realize that there is much more to capturing pictures and videos other than just having a passion for it. There are some very intricate technical skills that require time to develop, specifically for low-light shooting. Practice makes perfect. Night shooting doesn't suck, just requires the right equipment, time and practice. keep at it

I agree, you did ok with the post but you sucked at getting the info you needed. This guy will likely be pretty happy as he prolly does no know the difference, but I would rip you one. Sorry just being honest. Unless he met you there and said "Hey you have a camera, Im gonna propose in a minute would you film it?" then you should have had some better idea what you were walking into. sometimes the hardest thing to do is tell someone that "because of the location... this is not ideal" Next time scout it or at least ask. If your going to be a pro, then you have to do it right. Renders with "MB Looks" and RG can be very intensive, if youve played with them be fore this you should have known that.

I have just been learn to shoot video this year. I have learn that if I have a lens with a aperture of 1.8 on a DSLR works good for me. if I use a lens with a 2.8 aperture I have to bring up the ISO more and get noise. I use Neat Video reduce noise it if I have to. Your post work look of oh.

Poor planing is the most frequent cause of performance problems. Testing your equipment in similar light or at the location, asking the right question to your client about how the event would happen, and testing your edit and rendering settings would have made a client job much better. As the professional, you have to make sure you are prepared and have the right information to complete a paid project.

well, I told the client that we need to have specific plan and he said that he told the detail to his friend and ask her on event day.... However, I guess this client really didn't care about this plan. I met his friends who supposed help to coordiate this event, also did not have any idea where he was coming from, where he planned to propose... Basically, he told us that he is in restaurant and they will be out there in 10 minutes...

Yes, I need to learn a lot more about post processing....

Adding effects will add some to the render time. However, 5 hour is really long. Is this a quad core i7 or dual core? It only take me about 10-15 minutes on a 5 minute video.

Also, it being your first time...sounds risky. Saying it's a client makes it sound that you were being paid?

Rendering is all about math. I cannot speak intelligently about "Math" other than to say that the more you add or take away,either one, you add more math. When you add more math you add more time. Sometimes...SOMETIMES.​.. you can learn which layer to render and which layers to let run live. Maybe thats dates me... But when you output to a file as we do almost every time these days. You have to render it all. Thats why the big boys have render farms. Even when you have a render broke out over 50 machines and it only takes an hour to render, that still a 50 hour render. I have seen things that took days to render. Mainly huge projects, but still it takes your heart out when it says.. Estimated Render time is... 72 hrs. Keep working on it, keep trying , and most of all keep learning. We all started where you are.