![]() Once it’s gathered a profile for our shot, the Noise Filter Settings tab activates. The higher the percentage, the more effective the reduction. Neat then reports a Quality level on this profile as a percentage. Good profiles might contain a piece of pure blue sky or a shadow region that lacks detail. It is optimal that this portion should contain as few characteristics as possible. Neat Video profiles a portion of the image to evaluate the noise in the overall frame. ![]() However, its interface is anything but intuitive. At its price point (free or up to $199 – depending on the version), it’s become an industry standard. While native software noise reducers suffice for many projects, sometimes additional firepower is required for egregiously dirty shots.Įnter Neat Video, a professional noise reduction plugin. Luckily, noise reduction tools exist to combat grainy footage. Unlike film grain, we find digital noise ugly and wish to eliminate or limit it. ![]() In this post we’ll show you how to get the most out of it in your projects.ĭigital noise is an inevitable, undesirable facet of working with video. We also very much admit that we haven’t seen everything… if you think there’s a product out there that we should be talking about, please let us know.Is grainy footage ruining your project? Neat Video packs a powerful punch for reducing grain and noise in footage. If we bother to review something, it’s because we use it in our day to day and like it. We only advocate and sell the products that we use in our own workflows. Review disclaimer – Yes, we do sometimes get free products and licenses (but not always). Before you throw out a shot because of how noisy it is… try putting neat video on it. Neat video is really great at saving shots you didn’t think you’d be able to use.Once you’ve done the noise profile from within the plugin interface, there will typically be a huge improvement that will likely be pretty much what you wanted… however, if you go and play with the temporal radius setting in the inspector in FCPX, the higher you go, the higher quality (and render times) you will likely see.FCPX can hang a lot with this plugin if you’re not careful, especially on slower machines. You may want to turn off background rendering while you’re applying Neat Video and playing with the settings… and then render everything out when you’re done all at once.If you already have Neat Video, make sure you have the latest version (3.6)… among other things like (like Resolve support), there were some significant render and GFX support changes to the latest version. The New Mac Pro is way better friends with Neat Video than the iMac and Macbook Pro are.Also, if you’re dealing with RED RAW, it may make sense to export the segments requiring noise reduction first, then cut them back in over the RAW footage… then apply the plugin. Quick tip is to bring your 4K stuff down into a 1080 sequence first. Avoid using on 4K stuff unless you’ve got A Lot of render time to spare.Once you’re there, look at this page: and watch some tutorials for best practices.Īlso, for better performance, once you’re inside the plugin, make sure you go under Tools_Performance and then make sure you enable GPU rendering, and bump up the number of cores your machine uses to render.If you’re applying from FCPX, apply the Filter onto your clip(s), then go into the inspector and hit “select to open” and that will open the plugin interface.Don’t put it on until you’re as close to done with your edit as possible. Render times are LONG… and get longer the larger the resolution of your footage is.A few things to keep in mind as you use it: Once you get past their not exactly to 2014 standards website and figure out how to pay for, download, and install the plugin, you’ll likely be blown away by how amazing this plugin really is. ![]() For those of you looking for a great noise reduction plugin for FCPX, Neat Video is really the only thing worth looking at: ![]()
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