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peederj: Wow. That was tremendously helpful. I think it will take a me a little time to unpack and research/try all of that. Greatly appreciated!

peederj: You raise another good thing for me to ask about - what are you transcoding to/with? I have not settled on that yet.

tosvus: I will look into windmotion. Thanks for all the feedback.

I will definitely check that out. I'd like to shoot the best footage I can in camera though, and wonder why this is happening. What are the issues at work here causing this? Do I just have to drop to a lower ISO to make the grain go away, or is it something else about the shot that is making it do this? Maybe shadows need to go darker and I have to just avoid mid-tone shadows? I'm not sure.

I am new to the DSLR filmmaking thing, though in years past I shot a fair bit of DV, and before that some 16mm film.   I am testing out my workflow with my T2i, and I noticed that I am getting a lot of dancing grain in the mid-range shadows. I had read that keeping at or under 1600 ISO on this camera should produce a clean image, and this was shot at 800. How do I get a shot with shadows that don't fill up with grain? I've seen plenty of others get a nice cinematic look with plenty of shadows.   This is a clip that was shot at 1080p and was pulled into Premiere, snipped, and re-exported at 1080p using H.264. The grain looks just slightly more visible than in the original.   At issue is the shadowed beige wall in the background:   http://download.hexatrope.com/Lisa_Test.mp4