Tutorial: Neat Video: Removing Noise and Grain from your Footage

	Motion Graphics Neat Video: Removing Noise and Grain from your Footage In this video tutorial you will learn how to use the Neat Video plug-in for multiple applications. Although demonstrated in After Effects, the work-flow is essentially the same for all these applications: After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Nuke, Fusion, Vegas Pro, etc. This powerful but simple to use plug-in can clean up noisy footage by applying a sophisticated and advanced algorithm to work out what's noise and what's details in your footage and then remove just the noise. This is done by profiling the noise properties in an area of a video frame without visible features. Once the noise has been profiled, Neat Video is guided by this profile to reduce and eliminate noise while not touching the video details. Although mostly automatic, Neat Video still leaves you with total control over the amount of filtering you apply and even offers optional sharpening (without sharpening the noise) should you wish it. Tutorial, Video Tutorial   12/03/2010 Author: Andrew Devis

Hi David

Thanks for your comment, I really pleased to hear how you've manged to use it in a creative way!

Andrew

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Hi Ken

Fantastic to hear how the product is being used, it really does do a brilliant job of cleaning up footage! Thanks for letting us know & don't forget to spread the word!! ;o)

Andrew

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Hi Kim

I am pleased you are happy with the Neat Video plug-in, it really works well! I am also pleased to tell you that more tutorials are on the way, we are planning a more advanced one in the next couple of weeks - so watch this space.

Kind regards
Andrew

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Hi Robert

Yes it does - very well! In fact, we are planning an advanced tutorial in the next few weeks using pp cs5.

Hope this helps
Andrew

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Hi Kim

Just wanted to let you know that I am working on the profile tutorial this week and so it should be up soon. Also, I had a play with the image you put up and using one of the techniques I will demonstarte managed to get a good amount of filtering on the image even as a jpeg! :o) and that was without playing with the filters!!

In short, just because you get your base noise profile settings on one frame shouldn't stop you trying to improve it using other frames of the same piece of footage ...

Watch this space

Andrew

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Hi Kim
That is the main reason for the advanced tutorial - how to get good profiles from clips where the auto function doesn't work well.

Andrew

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I need your next tutorial Andrew... how is it coming?

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Hi Kim
I just wanted to let you know that the tutorial - probably split into 2 - have just been uploaded to the neat video website and not on the cow. So go to http://www.neatvideo.com and you should find it/them there. Let me know how you get on.

All the best
Andrew

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Thanks for the message Andrew, I'll get right on it and let you know. Take care

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Hi Daniel

Thanks for your kind comment. Just so you know, if you go to the neat video website you will find a couple of advanced tutorials I've done that aren't on the cow. They show how to build noise profiles from difficult footage.

Thanks again
Andrew

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Hi Daniel, I asked the team and got this reply for you:

The computer hardware (including processor model, memory speed,
etc.) in fact does matter. As well as the effects, filters and
codecs used in the project, and the host application too. It all
counts and there is no single answer to all cases.

In ideal circumstances, Neat Video v2.7 can render about
1920x1080 1-2 HD frames per second on a fast quadcore Intel
processor (there are faster and slower quadcore CPUs).

Neat Video's the top priority is the quality of noise reduction.
It takes time to do it right and achieve good quality.

We currently work on speeding up the processing and
expect good results later this year.

Hope this helps,
Neat Video

Andrew

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hi Andrew,

How are you? Thank you for this succinct tutorial. I came to know from NeatVideo that their latest version (3.x) is capable of using both CPU and GPU for noise removal - so performance should be must faster.

Rgds
-Nanda

Just wondered if neat video is known to work better in after effects or in final cut for removing noise or do they perform identical in each application?

Hi again, here is the official word from Neat Video


Regarding quality of NV noise reduction in AE vs FCP, it is quite the same. It is really a matter of personal preference of one host application vs another. The plug-ins for AE and for FCP look, feel and perform quite the same way.

In other words, which application you want to use will give you the same results :o)

If you need to contact them directly use this link http://www.neatvideo.com/contacts.html

Hope this helps
Andrew

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