Neat Video... video noise reduction

by **Paul LS** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:41 pm

Well it is my 50th birthday today so as a present to myself I bought the Neat Video Pro video noise reduction plug-in for Premiere. I have tried various techniques/software for video noise reduction with some what limited success. The MSU denoiser in VirtualDub that Ken put me on to works reasonably well but they all seem to suffer when there is motion in the scene.
The Neat Video plugin works incredibly well even when there is motion. My main reason for buying the Pro version is that it supports HDV video format size (the standard version for 720x480/720x576 is only $49). My HC1 an older HDV CMOS camcorder does not have very good low light performance. Once the gain increases the noise increases but with the Neat Video plugin I can eliminate "all" of the noise with no bluring or motion artifacts.
If any one is wanting to reduce video noise I would advice them to download the trial version and see what a difference it makes.
http://www.neatvideo.com/

by **Chuck Engels** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:53 pm

Sounds like a great tool Paul, thanks for sharing it with us.

AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY :occasion7:

by **momoffduty** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:44 pm

Happy Birthday Paul! Hit that milestone myself last week.

by **Chuck Engels** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:29 pm

I'm 50 1/2

Happy Birthday to you too Cheryl :occasion2:

by **Paul LS** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:42 pm

Thanks a lot guys for the congrats on my birthday. :-D

Only another 15 years and I can do this fulltime... $\:D/$

by **Ron** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:58 pm

Well, I'm the yougin' here (not saying and Chuck/Steve - be quiet). Hope you have/had a fantastic day, Paul. Good to [know] ya' --- internet-wise. You're very helpful around here and I've even learned a few things from you. I love to help people myself, just an automatic thing for me ...

Anyway, here's to 50 more !!!
:occasion5:

by **happy2bapappy** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:46 pm

happy birthday.

thanks for all the help.

and thanks for the link. Favorited. :cool:

John.

by **Wheat King** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:34 pm

Happy Birthday Paul! Cheers Mate!

by **Ken Jarstad** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:16 pm

Happy birthday, Paul! I have nine years on you and a much smaller wallet these retirement days.

So, I now have "settled" on running all my analog videos through VirtualDub using the built-in Temporal Smoother filter. This was originally suggested by Robert, and I set it to either 4 or 5 on a scale of 10 depending on how much noise and how much motion smearing I can tolerate.
I have decided that only techies like me (us?) excess about the flaws in our videos anyway. It's amazing what some folks find as perfectly acceptable. I just made a DVD for a friend of a wedding in the Phillipines that was commercially done on VCD! :???:

Not many folks here have DVD players that even support VCD. I have to try remembering that content is king, anyway. Hope you have a fine year. :-D

by **William Tranter** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:15 am

Happy birthday, Paul! Wait till you hit the big 6 - you'll look back on today as ancient history!
All the best,
Bill

Neat Video... video noise reduction

Neat Video... video noise reduction

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