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Neat Video is a digital filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain found in footage from digital video cameras, DSLRs, TV tuners, and even digitized film or VHS. Neat Video is available as a plug-in for many popular video editing applications such as Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro.
Noise is a serious problem that complicates digital video processing. Footage coming from digital video cameras, camcorders, digital TV tuners, film digitizers, etc., often contains an easily noticeable noise component that may distract viewers.
Digital noise appears as fine, dancing speckles or static in certain areas of a video clip. Common causes: low light levels, high sensor gain, electronic interference, and aggressive compression of video data.
Regardless of the source, any form of noise can seriously degrade the visual quality of the footage. However, thanks to the most advanced noise reduction algorithms in the industry, Neat Video offers a way to clean up noisy clips. In addition, Neat Video is highly automated and user-friendly. Apply it and get great results in only a few clicks. It is improving video quality while preserving the beauty, detail, and clarity of the original footage. In many cases, rescuing clips that would otherwise be unusable.
Neat Video enhances clips suffering from the following defects:
Digital noise produced by image sensors of most modern video-capturing devices
Grain present in digitized film or analog video
Dust and scratches found in digitized film
Electric interference degrading analog video
Compression artifacts
Color banding
How does Neat Video work?
Neat Video is the product of years of research and development by a global team of highly qualified specialists. It utilizes a combination of sophisticated mathematical algorithms and an innovative approach to achieve results that surpass that of any standard noise reduction methods. Including relatively new wavelet-based techniques.
Neat Video’s approach is unique in that it builds and utilizes noise profiles to customize noise reduction. A noise profile is a reusable analysis of the noise properties of a particular video clip captured by a specific recording device in a specific mode. This information enables Neat Video to custom-tailor the noise reduction algorithm to the specific device. This allows Neat Video to reduce digital noise with greater accuracy. At the same time, it preserves true details. Such an approach works for video materials produced by video cameras, camcorders, computer TV tuners, film digitizers, and many more.
Highly Automated Noise Profiling
The program features a built-in auto-profiling tool that makes it easy to generate noise profiles at the click of a mouse. Moreover, you can save and reuse noise profiles for similar footage from the same device to further streamline your workflow.
Armed with noise profiling data, Neat Video goes to work to treat digital noise through a combination of temporal and spatial filtering. The temporal filter compares consecutive frames in a video sequence to more accurately distinguish noise from details. The spatial filter is then applied on a frame-by-frame basis. To explain, it further reduces noise, grain, and scratches to achieve smooth, polished, noise-free pictures. It is this approach — combining noise profiling with dual filtration — that transforms noisy clips into clean and neat footage while preserving the beauty and clarity of the original.
Neat Video has been designed to provide the best level of noise reduction that is practical in today’s computing systems. It is optimized for use on multi-core and multi-CPU systems and supports GPU acceleration where available. Through efficient engineering, Neat Video makes the best use of the available hardware present in your system to provide maximum noise reduction in a practical and fast way.
Description
Features
Premium Noise Reduction and Sharpening
The Best Noise-Reduction Algorithms in the Industry Neat Video’s noise reduction algorithms surpass the quality of all classic noise reduction methods — even relatively new wavelet-based methods. Neat Video’s more advanced, more efficient approach allows it to draw a clearer distinction between random noise and details in video data, enabling it to reduce more noise and better preserve true details.
Advanced Temporal Noise Filter Neat Video’s advanced temporal noise filter analyzes and compares a range of consecutive frames in order to gain as much information as possible. This allows the filter to more accurately distinguish between noise and detail in order to reduce noise and artifacts.
Sophisticated Spatial Noise Filter The spatial noise filter reduces noise elements even further on a frame-by-frame basis across a range of frequencies and color channels.
Dust and Scratches Filter In addition, Neat Video features a filter that targets specific imperfections such as film scratches, film dust, impulse interference and similar defects. This filter can also treat corrupted scan lines, spots, dots, and other video maladies.
Flicker Reduction Neat Video includes specialized mechanisms to take into account possible presence of localized or frame-wide flicker. This helps to suppress that visual imperfection itself and also to increase the accuracy of noise reduction. Repeated Frames This special filter mode helps to correctly reduce noise in clips containing repeated frames such as those shot in “slow shutter” or “night mode”. It also improves clips that have had their frame rates artificially increased.
Jitter of Details This filter helps to suppress the visible jitter of fine details that may be present in video. Such jitter looks like as if there was some hot air between the viewer and objects of the scene: small details of those objects appear moving or trembling.
Artifact Removal Filter Digital artifacts such as impulse noise created by video compression are treated by this filter. In addition, it also addresses dots and small lines that may be not fully removed by Neat Video’s regular noise filters.
Adaptive Filtration This feature automatically adjusts the noise filter in situations where noise properties are changing in different parts of a video clip — ensuring more accurate noise-reduction.
Smart Sharpening The intelligent sharpening filter takes advantage of Neat Video’s noise profiling techniques to sharpen the picture without amplifying noise. Neat Video sharpening has a halo-free mode.
Quality vs Speed Neat Video offers different quality modes in Temporal and Spatial filters to let you choose between more accurate processing and shorter processing time depending on your requirements.
Customizable Noise Filter Settings Neat Video’s filter is highly adjustable. While its default settings deliver good results, it also offers near complete control over each noise filtration setting. This allows you to fine-tune the noise reduction parameters to your exact requirements.
Filter Presets for Common Problems Neat Video includes a collection of pre-built presets containing filter settings to solve many typical filtration tasks.
Intuitive Noise Profiling
Device Noise Profiles Neat Video generates and utilizes device-specific noise profiles. These are reusable analyses of the noise characteristics of different devices in different recording modes. Thanks to these noise profiles, Neat Video knows exactly what type of noise it is encountering in a particular clip regardless of the source or mode of capture. Armed with this information the program is able to distinguish noise from details and achieve more accurate noise-reduction results.
Auto Profile Feature Neat Video’s Auto Profile tool automatically examines the content of a clip and builds a custom noise profile specifically for it. This is extremely accurate, however it is possible to override it and use semi-automatic or manual noise analysis methods if preferred.
Generic Noise Profiles Neat Video can also create generic noise profiles in a situation when video contains no frames and areas suitable for analysis by Auto Profile.
Profile Check and Tuning Building and using accurate profiles is the most important step to ensure quality noise reduction. The Profile Check and Tuning tools help to visually verify the accuracy of the profile and, if necessary, quickly adjust it to the current video.
Instant Visual Feedback
Immediate Preview Neat Video offers a built-in preview that allows you to view results and adjust the filter settings to optimize performance.
Playback Neat Video has a playback feature delivering a live view of the final video directly in plug-in window.
Multiple Preview Modes You can manually select an area of interest for preview as well as evaluate filtration results separately for each channel and frequency component.
Filter Settings Check Several Filter Settings Checks help to tune the filter settings using specialized preview modes. This speeds up the filter tuning process and helps to achieve better final results.
Comprehensive Host Integration
High-Bitdepth Rendering Neat Video takes advantage of the full power of modern video processing applications, offering high-bitdepth rendering in programs that support it. These applications include After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut, Motion, Vegas Pro, Media Composer, Resolve and OpenFX hosts.
Supported by Most Video Editing Platforms Neat Video works with most of the current video editing applications in use by both professional and consumer video editors.
Neat Video plug-ins work as regular video filters. They can apply noise reduction and sharpening exactly where it is required: in a chosen layer of an After Effects composition, in a chosen clip of a Premiere sequence, in a chosen track in Vegas, etc.
Supports All Frame Sizes Neat Video Pro and Studio Editions support any frame size without limit including Full HD, 4K, 8K, etc. The Home Edition supports up to 1920×1080 pixels (DVD, HDV 720p, Full HD). The Demo Edition supports up to 1280×720 pixels (VCD, SD, DVD, HDV 720p) with a watermark added.
Excellent Hardware Optimization
GPU Acceleration Got a powerful graphics card? Neat Video enables GPU acceleration to speed up processing and cut down on render times. Neat Video supports most CUDA-capable NVIDIA GPUs and a large number of OpenCL-capable AMD video cards.
Multi-Core, Multi-CPU and Multi-GPU Hardware Functionality Neat Video is engineered to make the best use of the available hardware present in your system. It is optimized for use on multi-core, multi-CPU and multi-GPU systems. In addition, Neat Video Pro and Studio support the use of multiple graphics cards and multiple CPU cores simultaneously to deliver the best filtration speed possible.
Works with All Video File Formats Neat Video is able to process any video format that is supported by your editing application including AVI, MPEG, MOV, WMV and many more. In other words, if your editing platform is able to open a video file, Neat Video will be able to apply noise reduction to that clip.
Neat Video: Video captured by a digital TV-tuner: noise and compression artifacts
This clip contains strong visible noise introduced by the air transmission of TV signal and further aggravated by the TV-tuner software’s compression. Neat Video reduces the noise and produces a much cleaner video clip.
Neat Video: Video captured by a digital TV-tuner: noise and compression artifacts
This clip contains strong visible noise introduced by the air transmission of TV signal and further aggravated by the TV-tuner software’s compression. Neat Video reduces the noise and produces a much cleaner video clip.
Neat Video filtration examples
This video contains heavy noise produced by the camera working in a high-gain mode. Neat Video reduces this noise, preserves the underlying details and makes the clip usable.
System Requirements
This page was updated on January 8, 2024
System requirements
Apple Silicon Mac running MacOS 11.0 or newer
Intel Mac running MacOS 10.13.6 or newer
64-bit Windows 7 or newer
Note: Several older versions of macOS (10.9.5–10.12.x) are no longer supported by Neat Video 5.4 for technical reasons. If you need to use Neat Video in one of those macOS versions, you can use Neat Video 5.3 (available in your account).
Note: only 64-bit versions of host applications are supported.
Floating licensing (Studio edition)
Requires RLM 12+ server software. RLM server is a third-party software product available free of charge.
The RLM server must be installed on a physical machine in the corporate LAN. Instructions for configuring RLM to support Neat Video are provided after purchase.
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Customer Reviews
Fantastic!
I first saw a recommendation for this in a behind the scenes video by Corridor Digital. I've been using it for two years now and I use it EVERY DAY! It takes crappy mobile video and makes it usable and it takes quality video and makes it look great. I can shoot higher ISO for natural lighting and then effortlessly remove the added noise. You will think you just bought a new camera!
Would you recommend this product to a colleague? Yes
By: David Meservy Date: July 29, 2014
Great plug-in
This product is awesome!
It gives me very accurate results, no blur at all. It's a bit slow to render, but still, i would recommend it for anyone
who needs to save some bad footage. Unfortunately, you have to buy it for one application at a time...
Would you recommend this product to a colleague? Yes
By: Jonathan Roy Date: April 12, 2012
Indispensable!
I first purchased this software two years ago and I can't imagine working with DSLR footage without it. It is amazingly effective, easy to use, and inexpensive. What more can a post person ask for? Ok, maybe it could render faster but believe me, the wait is worth it.
Would you recommend this product to a colleague? Yes
By: Nora Morgan Date: April 10, 2012
Change Log
Version 5.5.9
May 11, 2023
Optimized performance when the alpha channel is present
Fixed several minor issues
Windows: Added support for some AMD APUs based on gfx90c chips (including AMD Ryzen 5 5600G / 5700G)
Version 5.5.8
Added support for new Apple GPUs:
M2 Pro
M2 Max
Improved diagnostic messages
Fixed several minor issues
Version 5.5.5
Added support for After Effects 2023
Added support for MacOS 13 Ventura
Added support for new GPUs:
AMD Radeon RX 6600 / RX 6600 XT
AMD Radeon 6900 XTXH
Apple M2 GPUs
Several corrections in reactions of controls and indicators
Adjusted descriptions of controls
Fixed several minor issues
Neat Video 5.5.5
Oct 21, 2022
New hardware, new versions of host applications, new Neat Video v5.5.5
This update abounds with added support to both newest hardware and versions of host applications.
The biggest speed improvement has been enabled by adding support to the newest NVIDIA’s GPU. RTX 4090 has demonstrated the incredible speed of 120 FPS (working with FullHD frames). Just like that, RTX 4090 has taken the top row in our GPU leaderboard.
The era of M2 has officially began and Neat Video is ready to maximize the potential of your new Apple toys by adding support for both new CPU and GPU. The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with M2 on board are able to deliver 18 FPS working with FullHD clips. Now we are looking forward to seeing new and more powerful computers based on M2.
The new chip is not the only good news for macOS users. Neat Video has also started working with three new AMD GPU cards:
AMD RadeonRX 6600 / RX 6600 XT
AMD Radeon 6900 XTXH
Note: The minimum version of macOS required for Metal GPU support is now 11.0. Supported GPUs on earlier versions of macOS (10.13.6 and above) can be used via OpenCL only.
Lots of video editing applications have also come up with new versions of their software and Neat Video team has made sure that you can work with all of them. The version 5.5.5 has added support for the following versions of host applications:
Adobe Premiere Pro 2023
Adobe Premiere Elements 2023
Adobe After Effects 2023
DaVinci Resolve 18
DaVinci Resolve Studio 18
Magix Vegas Pro 20
Media Composer 2022
Magix Video Pro X (X14)
Magix Movie Studio 2023 / 2022
A bunch of new versions of OpenFX hosts has been supported too. This time the list consists of:
Autodesk Flame Family 2023
Fusion Studio 18
BorisFX Silhouette 2022
HitFilm Pro 2022
HS-ART DustBuster+ 14
This release has also fixed several issues and improved overall stability and performance.
Version 5.5
Neat Video 5.5 is here, with one theme behind the entire update: compatibility with the newest hardware and software opening new doors for even bigger, more astonishing projects.
So keep reading to find out what we have in store for you this time!
Support for new software and hardware: With all the new powerful GPUs and CPUs coming to the market, we want to help our users utilize their new powerhouse rigs to the utmost potential.
Here’s a gist of what’s coming:
Mac
GPU-based processing on the new Apple Silicon, including M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max for all the current applications that support Apple Silicon, such as Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Fusion Studio, Final Cut, and After Effects (beta).
Added compatibility and support for macOS 12 Monterey.
Improved support for macOS 11 Big Sur.
Windows
Added compatibility and support for the all-new Windows 11.
Added support for two new AMD Navi 23 GPUs:
RX 6600
RX 6600 XT
Linux
Neat Video now supports the latest and most powerful AMD RDNA 2 GPUs in DaVinci Resolve and OFX-based hosts, including:
Radeon RX 6600 / 6600 XT
Radeon RX 6700 XT
Radeon RX 6800 / 6800 XT
Radeon RX 6900 XT
Improved support for AMD Navi-based GPUs with the recent drivers.
After Effects
The Neat Video plug-in for After Effects can now natively run on Apple Silicon machines in the most recent beta version of After Effects that’s currently out on M1-based Apple computers.
Automatic gamma detection and adjustment, as well as notifying the user in case of gamma mismatch.
A more fluid, personalized user experience
Improved visuals on high-DPI monitors and multi-monitor systems.
More stable and reliable processing of larger frames in GPU mode.
New hints and tips all throughout the user interface.
Added a new keyboard shortcut for “Auto Profile with Current Frame”.
Improved support for color themes (Preferences > General):
Added a new Auto-detect brightness option.
The Normal brightness theme has been re-designed.
Adjustments in the Reduced brightness color theme.
Version 5.4
February 2021
After Effects
Added support for MacOS Big Sur (11.x)
The minimum supported version of MacOS is now 10.13.6. – If you need to use the plug-in with an older version of macOS (10.9.5 – 10.12), you can do that using Neat Video 5.3 (available in your account).
Optimization of several GUI elements for MacOS Big Sur
Added support for new AMD GPUs: Radeon Pro W5700 / W5500 / W5500X
CUDA is no longer supported on MacOS
The new versions of MacOS starting from 10.14 are no longer compatible with the NVIDIA CUDA driver required to run CUDA-enabled applications and plug-ins.
Previous versions of Neat Video could still use CUDA in MacOS 10.13 and earlier. In order to evolve Neat Video further, we had to switch to newer macOS development tools, which are no longer compatible with the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit.
Unfortunately this means that Neat Video 5.4 plug-ins will be unable to use CUDA in any version of MacOS.
If you need to use CUDA with Neat Video in MacOS, you can do that using Neat Video 5.3 (available in your account).
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Premiere Pro
Added support and optimizations for Premiere Elements 2021
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
Radeon RX 6800
Radeon RX 6800 XT
Radeon RX 6900 XT
A workaround has been added for a bug in AMD Adrenalin 20.7.1 and newer drivers with AMD RX Vega and Radeon VII GPUs which resulted in incorrect filtration results in GPU-only and CPU+GPU modes
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Final Cut Pro X
Added support for MacOS Big Sur (11.x)
The minimum supported version of MacOS is now 10.13.6.
If you need to use the plug-in with an older version of macOS (10.9.5 – 10.12), you can do that using Neat Video 5.3 (available in your account).
Optimization of several GUI elements for MacOS Big Sur
Added support for new AMD GPUs: Radeon Pro W5700 / W5500 / W5500X
CUDA is no longer supported on MacOS
The new versions of MacOS starting from 10.14 are no longer compatible with the NVIDIA CUDA driver required to run CUDA-enabled applications and plug-ins.
Previous versions of Neat Video could still use CUDA in MacOS 10.13 and earlier. In order to evolve Neat Video further, we had to switch to newer macOS development tools, which are no longer compatible with the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit.
Unfortunately this means that Neat Video 5.4 plug-ins will be unable to use CUDA in any version of MacOS.
If you need to use CUDA with Neat Video in MacOS, you can do that using Neat Video 5.3 (available in your account).
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Vegas
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
Radeon RX 6800
Radeon RX 6800 XT
Radeon RX 6900 XT
A workaround has been added for a bug in AMD Adrenalin 20.7.1 and newer drivers with AMD RX Vega and Radeon VII GPUs which resulted in incorrect filtration results in GPU-only and CPU+GPU modes
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Media Composer
Added support for Media Composer 2021
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
Radeon RX 6800
Radeon RX 6800 XT
Radeon RX 6900 XT
A workaround has been added for a bug in AMD Adrenalin 20.7.1 and newer drivers with AMD RX Vega and Radeon VII GPUs which resulted in incorrect filtration results in GPU-only and CPU+GPU modes
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Edius
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
Radeon RX 6800
Radeon RX 6800 XT
Radeon RX 6900 XT
A workaround has been added for a bug in AMD Adrenalin 20.7.1 and newer drivers with AMD RX Vega and Radeon VII GPUs which resulted in incorrect filtration results in GPU-only and CPU+GPU modes
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Magix
Added support for new versions of host applications:
Magix Movie Edit Pro 2021
Magix Video Deluxe 2021
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
Radeon RX 6800
Radeon RX 6800 XT
Radeon RX 6900 XT
A workaround has been added for a bug in AMD Adrenalin 20.7.1 and newer drivers with AMD RX Vega and Radeon VII GPUs which resulted in incorrect filtration results in GPU-only and CPU+GPU modes
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Virtual Dub
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
Radeon RX 6800
Radeon RX 6800 XT
Radeon RX 6900 XT
A workaround has been added for a bug in AMD Adrenalin 20.7.1 and newer drivers with AMD RX Vega and Radeon VII GPUs which resulted in incorrect filtration results in GPU-only and CPU+GPU modes
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 5.3.0
December 2020
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
Radeon Pro 5300 / 5500 XT / 5700 / 5700 XT
Radeon Pro 5600M
Note: due to changes in AMD drivers, some older Graphics Core Next 1 GPUs are no longer supported. Please test directly or contact support to verify.
Improved stability on certain custom Mac machines
Better handling of incorrect data in input frames
A workaround to prevent skewed preview in FCPX 10.4.7 and 10.4.8
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 5.2.6
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
Radeon Pro W5700X
Radeon RX 5500 / 5500 XT / 5600 / 5600 XT
Radeon Pro WX 5100
Optimized efficiency of playback in Neat Video preview
Optimized zoom adjustment on opening of Neat Video window
Improved positioning of Neat Video window during opening
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 5.2: support for Metal
Feb 19, 2020
Neat Video 5.2 is here and very keen to gobble up some noise! The highlight of this update is embracing Metal support in MacOS plug-ins, which may noticeably improve render times. But that’s not all, we have other improvements up our sleeve, so keep on reading.
Support for Metal in MacOS Neat Video 5.2 can now use the new Metal technology (in MacOS 10.15 and newer), in addition to OpenCL.Using Metal instead of OpenCL may increase the speed of Neat Video’s GPU-based processing for up to 40% depending on hardware, frame size and filter settings.
The speedup is especially noticeable with large frames (like 4K) and a high temporal radius.If you run MacOS 10.15, try switching Neat Video from OpenCL to Metal (Neat Video Preferences > Performance > GPU > Advanced Settings).
Added support for GPU models used in new Mac Pro machines:
AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
Also supported now (MacOS):
AMD Radeon RX 5700 / 5700 XT
AMD Radeon Pro 555X / 560X / 570X / 575X / 580X
Additional optimizations in GPU code:
Better performance with a single GPU on 8 and 16-bit clips: up to 4%-8% depending on hardware and filter settings
Better performance with two GPUs working simultaneously
Improved receiving frames from Premiere to Neat Video making the process more reliable and visually indicative (in Premiere SR plug-in)
Added support for the new version of HitFilm in OpenFX plug-in: HitFilm Pro 14 (Windows, MacOS)
Several changes and improvements in GUI
Neat Video v5.1.5
Date: 15 November 2019
Neat Video v5 plug-ins have been updated to version 5.1.5 with added support for several new versions of video editing applications and new GPUs.
Added support for new AMD GPUs (Windows, Linux):
AMD Radeon RX 5700
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
Added support for new AMD GPUs (MacOS):
AMD Radeon Pro 5300M
AMD Radeon Pro 5500M
Added support for new versions of OpenFX video editing applications:
Nuke 12
HitFilm Pro 13 (Windows, MacOS)
Added support for new versions of Adobe video editing applications:
After Effects 2020
Premiere Pro 2020
Premiere Elements 2020
Added support for new version of Magix video editing applications:
Magix Movie Edit Pro 2020
Magix Video Deluxe 2020
Fixed several minor bugs
Please refer to the history of changes for more details:
Optimized for modern hardware for faster processing
CPU-based processing:
Up to 1.5x faster
GPU-based processing:
1 GPU: 1.3x..2.0x faster (1.6x average)
2 GPUs: 1.4x..2.0x faster (1.7x average)
Better filtration results: cleaner and crispier video
Flicker reduction
Jitter reduction (jitter of details)
Improved noise reduction (helped by flicker and jitter reduction)
Improved Sharpening with additional controls
Improved Dust and Scratches filter (helped by flicker reduction)
Improved filtration of monochrome videos
Better out-of-box processing of FullHD, 4K and larger videos (Very Low Frequency filtration is now enabled by default)
New tools to check accuracy and tune noise profiles
Easier than ever before
Automatic multi-frame analysis to build more accurate profiles
Flexible Generic Profiles (fully adjustable, with visual assistance)
Playback to check preview in motion, directly in Neat Video window
Visually assisted tuning for profiles and filters
Illustrated help dialogs for many filter settings and tuning modes
Expanded and updated set of pre-built filter presets
Variants now can be used to test different profiles too
More intuitive and interactive user interface (UI)
Several name changes in UI, including:
Main tabs are now called “Prepare Noise Profile” and “Adjust and Preview”
“Auto Profile” / “Build Profile” button (changes depending on selection)
“Profile Check”, “Assist Image”, “Filter Settings Check”, etc.
“Repeated Frames” instead of former “Slow Shutter”
Several other items renamed or moved
Adjusted meaning of the selection color in Prepare Noise Profile tab: the blue color of the selection box now indicates that ‘profile has been built using this area’ (not ‘area was chosen automatically’ as in older versions)
Undo/Redo operations and history of changes for noise profiles
Select/drag modes in viewer (useful for computers with touchpads)
Alt+Mouse wheel in viewer zooms to point even when selection is present
Improved retina support in MacOS (viewer now uses full resolution)
Ability to toggle Alpha Channel in viewer (when present)
Preview performance has been optimized
Preview cache size adjustment to optimize for different resolutions (in Preferences > Preview)
Additional visual guidance to adjust the GPU memory allowed to Neat Video (in Preferences > Performance)
Other improvements
Added support for AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 GPU installed in some new iMacs
Customized names of profiles and presets are now saved in projects
An option to erase Neat Video settings and license during uninstallation
Improved diagnostic data and error reporting
Changes in products and licensing
End-User License Agreement has been updated
Home plug-in supports up to 1 GPU if available
The plug-in no longer supports 32-bit hosts: FCP 7/6; Motion 4/3; Final Cut Express 4
Floating licensing now available for OFX plug-in in new Studio edition
Resolve is no longer supported by the OFX plug-in; Support for Resolve is now moved out to a separate product: Neat Video plug-in for Resolve
The plug-in no longer supports 32-bit versions of Vegas Pro and Movie Studio
The plug-in no longer supports 32-bit versions of Magix Video Pro, Movie Edit Pro, Magix Video Deluxe
The plug-in no longer supports 32-bit versions of Edius Pro and Edius Neo
Discontinued Products
Pinnacle plug-in
Catalyst plug-in
Notes for Users of Older Versions
Neat Video 5 will not replace the older version of Neat Video on your computer. Neat Video 5 and an older version can co-exist on the same machine and even be used in the same project.
If you want to use Neat Video 5 instead of an older version in an existing project then you need to manually add the new Neat Video 5 (Reduce Noise v5) to your project. You can then disable or remove the older instance(s) of Neat Video (Reduce Noise) from the project.
Neat Video 5 builds and uses new noise profiles and filter presets that are not compatible with profiles/presets from older versions. If you have built a re-usable set of profiles for your camera with an older version of Neat Video then you may want to re-build it in Neat Video 5. The same applies to filter presets
If you upgrade from v1, v2, v3 or v4 Home to v5 Home edition of any of Neat Video products, please note the important differences:
v5 Home edition may only be used for non-commercial purposes;
v5 Home edition can support up to one GPU.
If you need to use Neat Video 5 for commercial purposes or want it to utilize more than one GPU simultaneously, then please upgrade to v5 Pro edition (please check My Special Offers or contact us for assistance).
Resolve is now supported by a new dedicated product: Neat Video 5 plug-in for Resolve. Neat Video 5 plug-in for OFX will not support Resolve. If you are currently holding a license for Neat Video plug-in for OFX and would like to upgrade to Neat Video 5 plug-in for Resolve, proceed to the My Special Offers page.
Neat Video 5 OFX is now also available in a new Studio edition (in addition to existing Demo and Pro editions). The Studio edition is similar to Pro edition but uses floating licensing: the machines that want to run the software obtain a license from the license server dynamically, when it is actually needed. This can be a great solution for studios and organizations with large number of computers that need to run the OFX plug-in but not all together at the same time. If you want to upgrade your OFX license to a new license for Neat Video 5 OFX Studio edition, please check My Special Offers or contact us for assistance.
Neat Video plug-in for AVX hosts in new version 5 is renamed to Neat Video 5 plug-in for Media Composer.
Neat Video 5 discontinues support of Pinnacle Studio and Catalyst. If you are currently holding a license for Neat Video plug-in for any of those host applications and wish to upgrade to Neat Video 5, you can cross-upgrade to one of the available Neat Video 5 plug-ins. Please contact us for assistance.
Neat Video 5 discontinues support of the 32-bit versions of such host applications as Final Cut, Magix Vegas Pro, Magix Vegas Movie Studio, Sony Vegas Pro, Sony Vegas Movie Studio, Magix Video Pro X, Magix Movie Edit Pro, Magix Video Deluxe. The 32-bit version of VirtualDub remains supported at this time. If you need to use Neat Video with a no longer supported 32-bit application, then please contact us, we may be able to offer you one of the older versions of Neat Video. Please note that using the 64-bit software instead of 32-bit one will help both stability and speed of rendering.
MacOS: the new minimum version of MacOS able to run Neat Video 5 is the version 10.9.5. If you need to use Neat Video in older versions of MacOS please contact us, we may be able to offer you one of the older versions of Neat Video.
Version 4.8.5
Added support for After Effects CC 2019
Added support for Premiere Pro CC 2010
Added support for Premiere Elements 2019
Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs:
GeForce RTX 2070 / 2080 / 2080 Ti
Titan V
Titan RTX
Note 1: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 2.x and below are no longer supported. Only GPUs with Compute Capability 3.0 and higher can be utilized by Neat Video 4.8.5.
Note 2: Apple’s recently released OS X 10.14 (Mojave) does not support CUDA. NVIDIA is working with Apple to get Mojave to support CUDA. Meanwhile, Neat Video will only be able to utilize NVIDIA GPUs on OS X 10.13.x and below.
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
Radeon Pro Vega 16 / 20
Radeon Pro WX 7100
Note: due to changes in AMD drivers, some older non-GCN GPUs are no longer supported. In particular, Neat Video no longer supports Radeon HD 5xxx/6xxx cards and other devices based on the following chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman.
Newer AMD GPUs remain supported on OS X 10.7.5 and above (including version 10.14).
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 4.8
Added support for the most recent update of After Effects CC 2018
Added support for AMD Radeon Pro WX 9100
Improved support for AMD Vega Frontier Edition
Cosmetic improvements in GUI
Cosmetic improvements in the installer
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 4.7
Added support for Adobe After Effects CC 2018
Added support for AMD Radeon Vega GPUs installed in new iMac Pro computers:
AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 64
Cosmetic improvements in GUI
Several minor bugs have been fixed
What’s new in v4.6:
supports more video editing applications and their newest versions
works with modern GPUs
contains new filters: Dust & Scratches, Artifact Removal
preserves more detail and delivers sharper image in the new High Quality mode
better handles footage taken in difficult and special conditions such as:
scenes with changing luminance/chrominance
video with repeated frames taken in ‘slow shutter’ / ‘night’ modes
footage suffering from very low frequency noise
provides new tools for more accurate profiling, easier filter tuning
allows more flexible filter customization
contains many optimizations in GUI and workflow throughout the plug-in
What’s new in V4.5:
Neat Video 4.5 makes noise profiling more accurate and helps users to obtain optimum filtration results. This free update (for Neat Video 4 license-holders) offers new and improved noise profiling tools and functionality, as well as enhanced, simplified filter-tuning. It also provides more hardware compatibility for AMD GPUs and adds support for new video-editing applications.
More accurate profiling, with enhanced tools
Version 4.5 offers new tools and functions that help you to create more accurate noise profiles.
A new Profile Assist viewer mode offers a visually enhanced view of the noise within the frame, which helps to quickly identify the area with the strongest noise and the least amount of details.
Version 4.5 allows you to select larger areas for profiling, when available. – Using larger areas makes the profiling of lower frequency noise more accurate. This is particularly useful for large frame formats such as 4K.
Furthermore, the update improves the processing of Very Low and Ultra Low frequencies when using small areas for profiling — increasing accuracy in these ranges.
New features for quick pinpointing of the best filter settings
Neat Video 4.5 has also simplified the process of tuning the noise filters and provided enhanced visual preview tools to achieve the optimum results.
A new Preview Assist viewer mode. – This mode presents a specially enhanced preview emphasizing weak details. Helping you fine-tune the filter settings in such a way as to preserve such details while still reducing the noise.
A new Noise Level Tuning Assist tool. – This tool allows to tweak the Temporal Noise Level using a visually enhanced preview to achieve better results.
A new Slow Shutter Tuning Assist tool. – For clips with repeated frames (or repeated noise), this new assist tool helps you to find the right settings of the Slow Shutter mode using a specially enhanced preview.
A new Spatial Filter Tuning Assist tool. – Neat Video 4.5 also includes the Spatial Filter Tuning Assist tool that helps to adjust the Spatial Filter settings using a visually enhanced preview.
It is now possible to separately assign the Quality Mode for the temporal filter and spatial filter. – This may reduce processing time with minimal effect on quality in some circumstances.
In cases when no frame is initially selected, the plug-in will now automatically select a suitable frame from the beginning of the clip. This helps avoid accidental inaccurate noise profile analysis and gives you one less thing to think about.
Improved compatibility and hardware support
Neat Video 4.5 offers improved hardware support for AMD GPUs. – Please refer to the the full history of changes (links below) for more information.
Added support for new Windows 10 and OSX 10.11, for retina Macs and new GPUs, for new host applications and more
Neat Video v4 plug-ins have been updated to version 4.1 with several improvements and support for new host applications and new GPUs.
Auto Profile function has been improved to find better areas for noise analysis.Using more suitable areas leads to more accurate noise reduction –
New controls in “Temporal Filter” and “Dust and Scratches” sections – Improved performance of “Dust and Scratches” in presence of repeated frames, on scene changes and in the beginning and end of a clip
Added support for Retina displays of modern Mac machines – (support for HiDPI displays on Windows and Linux has been added earlier in version 4.0)
New host applications supported by the OFX plug-in:
Quantel Pablo Rio 2.1.4+
Natron 2
IDT Vision Motion Studio 2.12+
Added support for new versions of video editing host applications:
DaVinci Resolve 12
DustBuster+ 8 / 7
MAGIX Video Deluxe 2016
Pinnacle Studio 19
Premiere Elements 14
New GPUs supported:
Windows and Linux:
AMD Radeon R9 Fury / Nano / Fury X / Fury X2
AMD Radeon R9 380/390/390X
AMD Radeon R9 255/250X
AMD Radeon R7 360/370
AMD Radeon R7 265
Newer AMD Catalyst 15.7.1+ drivers are now supported.
Improved compatibility with new versions of operating systems:
Improved support for Mac OS X 10.11
Improved installers for Mac OS X
Added support for Windows 10
Other improvements for different host applications:
Neat Video for Final Cut: Improved compatibility with the latest versions of FCP X, Motion and Compressor
Neat Video for Vegas: Added support for stereo/3D video processing
Neat Video for Vegas: Fixed the problem of copy & paste of effect
New major version: Neat Video v4
ABSoft team is pleased to introduce the 4th generation of Neat Video — the noise reduction solution for digital video. The new major version 4 of Neat Video improves the visual quality and adds new features to achieve even better noise reduction results.
Main improvements
Higher quality of noise reduction
More accurate processing in scenes with changing luminance or chrominance: fade in/out, camera auto gain control, etc.
“Dust and Scratches” filter to remove film scratches, dust, impulse interference (more…)
“Slow Shutter” mode for video containing repeated frames (more…)
Better sharpening quality: less halos, sharper edges
“High Quality” mode for better detail preservation and sharper image (at the cost of reduced processing speed: 1.5-4 times slower)
Optimized workflow
Several source frames accessible directly in plug-in window provide a choice of frame for profiling
Restructured filter settings: better navigation, greater flexibility and easier experimenting
Improved preview takes all temporal and spatial filters into account(to adjust filters individually and in combination; to avoid roundtrips to host application for checking the final results)
“Variants” of filtration to visually compare results achieved with different filter settings
New filter preset collection to solve typical filtration tasks
Faster processing and more responsive GUI
Preview is updated faster when filter settings are adjusted
Multiple optimizations have allowed to preserve the speed of processing despite its greater complexity
“Skip Neat Video Processing” option to temporarily disable all instances of Neat Video filters (to speed up editing in the host application; especially useful in FCP X).
This Neat Video tutorial will walk you through the basics of using Neat Video to reduce video noise in your productions. The steps are basically the same across all hosts.
In this tutorial from Fireball VFX, you will learn difference between film grain and digital noise and when it should be removed, how to add it in when needed and more.
Here’s the rundown of noise and grain reduction plug-ins on the market for After Effects and other NLE’s, rated on speed, accuracy and quality, as well as return on investment. This article will focus mostly on grain and noise reduction but also touch upon matching and adding grain and noise.
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