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Best Noise Reduction for Digital Video

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.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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).


Host Support

After Effects

  • 2024 / 2023 / 2022 / 2021 / 2020 / 2019
  • CC 2018 / 2017 / 2015 / 2014 / CC
  • CS6 / CS5.5 / CS5

 

Premiere Pro

Second Revision plug-in (recommended)

  • Premiere Pro
    • 2024 / 2023 / 2022 / 2021 / 2020 / 2019
    • CC 2018 / 2017 / 2015 / 2014
    • CC
    • CS6
  • Premiere Elements
    • 2024 / 2023 / … / 2019 / 2018
    • 15 / 14 / 13 / 12

Standard Version plug-in (legacy)

  • Premiere Pro
    • 2024 / 2023 / 2022 / 2021 / 2020 / 2019
    • CC 2018 / 2017 / 2015 / 2014
    • CC
    • CS6 / CS5.5 / CS5
  • Premiere Elements
    • 2024 / 2023 / … / 2019 / 2018
    • 15 / 14 / … / 11 / 10 (Windows only)

Final Cut Pro

Second Revision plug-in (recommended)
  • System requirements
    • Apple Silicon Mac, MacOS 11.0 or newer
    • Intel Mac, MacOS 10.15.6 or newer
  • Supported applications
    • Final Cut Pro X (10.5.2 or newer)
    • Motion 5 (5.5.1 or newer)
  • Known issues: see details
Standard Version plug-in (legacy)
  • System requirements
    • Intel Mac
    • MacOS 10.13.6 or newer
  • Supported applications
    • Final Cut Pro X (10.0.4 to 10.6.5)
    • Motion 5 (5.0.0 to 5.6.3)

    (may not work in newer FCP/Motion)

  • Known issues: see details

 

DaVinci Resolve / Resolve Studio

18.5 / 18 / 17 / … / 14 / 12.5 / 12 / 11 / 10
(known issues)

 

OFX Hosts

Supported applications

Foundry Nuke 15 / 14 / … / 9 / 8 / 6.1+ / 5.1+
(commercial version only)

Foundry Nuke Indie 15 / 14 / 13 / 12.2v3+

Blackmagic Fusion Studio

  • Mac: 18.5 / 18 / 17 / 16 / 9 / 8
  • Windows: 18.5 / 18 / 17 / 16 / 9 / 8 / 7.7+
  • Linux: 18.5 / 18 / 17 / 16 / 9 / 8.2+

Eyeon Fusion

  • Windows: 7 / 6 / 5.3+

Assimilate Scratch 9 / 8 / 7 / 6.1+

FXHOME HitFilm Pro

  • 2023 / 2022 / 2021 / 2017
  • 16 / 15 / … / 7 / 6 / 4

SGO

  • Mac
    • Mistika  Boutique 10+ / 8.8+
    • Mistika  8.2+ / Mamba 2
  •  Windows:
    • Mistika  Boutique 10+ / 8.8+
    • Mistika  8.2+ / Mamba 2
  • Linux
    • Mistika Ultima 10+ / 8.8+
    • Mistika 8.2+ / Mamba 2

Quantel Rio 4 / Pablo Rio 2.1.4+ (Windows)

  • Autodesk Flame Family
    2024 / 2023 / … / 2020 / 2019.2
    (Flame, Flame Assist, Flare)

FilmLight Baselight 5.1+

Natron 2.0.5+

Boris FX Silhouette 2023 / 2022 / 2021 / 2020.5.5+

HS-ART DustBuster+

  • 15 / 14 / 13 / 12.5 / 11 / 10.6+ /
    8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4.5+

IDT Vision Motion Studio 2.12+ (Windows)

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.

Avid Media Composer

Mac & Windows:

  • 2023 / 2022 / … / 2019 / 2018 / 8 / 7 / 6.5 / 6
    (commercial version only)
  • Symphony 6.5 / 6

Windows:

  • News Cutter 11 / 10.5 / 10
  • Avid DS 11 / 10.5

Vegas

  • Magix Vegas Pro
    21 / 20 / … / 14 / 13
  • Magix Vegas Movie Studio (Platinum/Suite)
    17 / 16 / 15 / 14 / 13
  • Sony Vegas Pro 13 / 12 / 11 / 10
  • Sony Vegas Movie Studio 13 / 12 / 11

Note: only 64-bit versions of host applications are supported.

 

Magix

  • MAGIX Video Pro
    X (X15 / X14 / .. / X9 / X8) / X7 / X6
  • MAGIX Movie Edit Pro (Video Deluxe)
    2023 / 2022 / … / 2017 / 2016 / 2015
  • MAGIX Movie Studio 2024 / 2023 / 2022 / 18

Edius

  • Edius Pro / Workgroup 11 / X / 9 / 8 / 7 (64-bit)

Virtual Dub

  • VirtualDub 2 / 1 (64-bit)

 


GPU support

Optional Apple and AMD GPU Support - Neat Video

MakeSupported Models
AppleSupported Apple GPUs (via Metal)
M1 / M1 Pro / M1 Max / M1 Ultra
M2 / M2 Pro / M2 Max / M2 Ultra
M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max
RadeonFirePro D300 / D500 / D700
Radeon R9 M290 / M290X / M295X
Radeon R9 M370X / M380 / M390 / M395 / M395X
Radeon Pro 450 / 455 / 460
Radeon Pro 555 / 560 / 570 / 575 / 580
Radeon Pro 555X / 560X / 570X / 575X / 580X
Radeon Pro Vega 16 / 20 / 48 / 56 / 64 / 64X
Radeon Pro Vega II / Vega II Duo
Radeon Pro 5300M / 5500M / 5600M
Radeon Pro 5300 / 5500 XT / 5700 / 5700 XT
Radeon Pro W5700 / W5700X / W5500 / W5500X
Radeon Pro W6800X / W6800X Duo / W6900X
Some other models of AMD cards
(please directly try the plug-in or contact support to verify)

Updated January 8, 2024

Optional GPU support- Neat Video

MakeSupported Models
NVIDIAThe latest NVIDIA video drivers supporting CUDA 8 or newer
Any CUDA-capable NVIDIA GPU with compute capability 3.5 or higher
(refer to this page for more details)
AMDThe latest Adrenalin driver
Radeon HD7790
Radeon R7260 / 260X / 360
Radeon R9285 / 285X / 290 / 290X / 295X2
380 / 380X / 390 / 390X
Fury, Nano, Fury X
Radeon RX
460 / 470 / 480
540 / 540X / 550 / 550X
560 / 570 / 580
Vega 56 / Vega 64
5300M / 5500 / 5500M
5600 / 5600 XT / 5700 / 5700 XT
6600 / 6600 XT
6700 XT / 6800 / 6800 XT / 6900 XT
7600 / 7600S / 7600M / 7600M XT
7700 XT / 7700S
7800 XT
7900 GRE / 7900 XT / 7900 XTX / 7900M
Radeon ProDuo
WX 2100 / 3100 / 4100 / 5100 / 7100 / 9100
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Radeon VII
Another AMD GPU based on one of the following chip series:Bonaire, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, Ellesmere, Baffin, gfx804, gfx900, gfx901, gfx906, gfx907, gfx90c, gfx1010, gfx1012, gfx1030, gfx1031, gfx1032, gfx1100, gfx1101, gfx1102
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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

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

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 Radeon RX 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:

Version 5.0

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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:
    1. v5 Home edition may only be used for non-commercial purposes;
    2. v5 Home edition can support up to one GPU.
    3. 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).
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Neat Video plug-in for AVX hosts in new version 5 is renamed to Neat Video 5 plug-in for Media Composer.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  • For OpenFX users, this update adds support for:
    • FXHOME HitFilm 2017 / 4 (Windows and Mac)
    • Quantel Rio 4 (Windows)
    • DustBuster+ 9 (Windows)
  • Neat Video plug-in for Magix adds support for:
    • Magix Movie Edit Pro 2017
    • Magix Video Deluxe 2017
  • Version 4.5 now supports VirtualDub FilterMod.

Other improvements

  • Lastly, this release:
    • includes multiple improvements in the GUI,
    • improves support for Unicode symbols,
    • fixes several minor bugs.

 

What’s new in V4.2:

See the full changelog here: https://www.neatvideo.com/features/version-history

What’s new in V4.1:

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.
  • Mac OS X :
    • Radeon R9 M290 / M290X / M295X / M370X / M380 / M390 / M395 / M395X
  • 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).

Added support for new host applications:

  • After Effects CC 2015
  • Premiere Pro CC 2015
  • Nuke 9
  • Magix Video Pro / Movie Edit Pro / Video Deluxe
  • Pinnacle Studio 18.5.1

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