Also, I find that I need to see the video itself, which means rendering each time after adjusting parameters, which brings us to performance Speed wise, both take a bit of time to render, but on a 2.53 GHz Core 2 MacBook Pro, rendering this 8 second clip took Denoiser 9 minutes while Neat took 4.5 minutes, which is a significnat difference. You might prefer one setting over the other, but it's difficult to say which one is "right" or "better."įrankly, I don't spend a lot of time tweaking Neat when I use it, so if I'm honest I probably would work the same way using Denoiser. At a certain point, these noise reduction algorithms seem to end up replacing the noise with different combinations of blur and patterning. I could get it different, but I wasn't necessarily sure I liked it better. I tried experimenting with the parameters, but couldn't find I could get it much better than the defaults. Red Giant has a great video tutorial that takes you through these parameters.
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Denoiser options include: Noise Reduction, Motion Estimation, Enhancement, Sample Current Frame (with additional options), Mix)
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But if I just applied the filter, Neat Video doesn't do nearly as good a job, so for out of the box ease-of-use, Denoiser seems to be the winner.īoth filters let you manually adjust different parameters, few of which I fully understand ( Neat options include: Temporal Filter radius, filter threshold, Mix. Producing a profile isn't too difficult and doesn't take long at all providing you have a good part of the scene you can select. To get similar results with Neat, I had to go in and produce a profile for the video: to produce a profile you have to select part of the video frame that is - ideally - a single contiguous color region, the larger the better. Denoiser produced very good results by just adding the filter to the video. This quick test revealed similar results, but with a couple of important differences.
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I compared them both on a really noisy clip (you can also use these to remove subtle noise, but particularly with video re-compressed and uploaded on the web, those subtle effects are often lost anyway.) I already have Neat Video's plug-in, but was curious to see how the Red Giant filter compared.
#Red giant denoiser 2 settings pro#
It sells for $99 and works with Adobe After Effects CS5, CS4, CS3 and Apple Final Cut Pro 7, 6.0.2. Red Giant has released a video noise removal plug-in called Denoiser.