To evaluate the reduction, do one of three things: It looks like tons of noise in the blue channel will be greatly reduced. The Noise Filter Settings shows us a preview of the noise reduction.

Neat Video picks a square in the lower right for its profile: In our shot, Neat chose a portion of the frame that’s almost black in the bottom right of the image. Neat Video found a profile at nearly 80 percent quality for my shot, whereas mine were somewhere around 50 or even 30 percent. You can also set this yourself, but it’s difficult to beat Auto Profile. Clicking Auto Profile lets Neat evaluate the image for the best possible profile. Neat Video works really well with minimal user input. Some parameters will come up but click Options for now. Click the FX icon all the way on the right interface, above the timeline. We’ll worry about the parameters here later. Drag the Reduce Noise plugin onto the new node. To use Neat Video in Resolve, add a new serial node and open up the FX panel. My chosen software is Davinci Resolve, but Neat works in a host of applications like After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, and others. The noise is in this one for sure: We’ll be working with an extremely noisy RED clip shot in a low-light concert hall. Low light in a concert hall, a pretty classic candidate for potential noise. The intra-frame controls are tweaked inside the plugin and temporal reduction is controlled outside the plugin. 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. Is grainy footage ruining your project? Neat Video packs a powerful punch for reducing grain and noise in footage.

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