Reply To: I can't figure out why there is noise when using the Cycles "start" file. There's no noise if I begin with the "finish" fi…

[Kent Trammell]

I imagine along the way between the start and finish of the file, I tweaked the render settings to eliminate the noise.

You can learn all about the render settings in this course, especially chapter 3: http://cgcookie.com/course/introduction-to-rendering/