I find Neatvideo to be the best solution out there to really extend raw video from Canon cameras to look much better than they ever could out of the box. My favorite aspect of Neatvideo is how it adjust the strength of the reduction based on the brightness of the region of the frame. For example the lower the stop the closer it is to the noise floor. We need stronger noise reduction in the deeper shadows than we do in the brighter stops. This matches how sensors work in cameras. The lower the stop the worse the noise is. The higher the stop the better the noise is. I shoot with a Canon R5 and love shooting 8k raw and using Neatvideo with c-log2 to really stretch how good the camera actually is. It breathes new life into what is otherwise not a very sensitive sensor. More time and effort but most cameras that shoot internal video use crude in camera noise reduction anyway. A few other things I like to do is crank up the temporal frames to 5 and quality to high and the spatial to high as well. The default for Neatvideo is not at the highest possible quality. It gets even slower but I find the precision even better at maintaining bright area fine details. I also convert raw material to a linear color space, then use Neatvideo, then convert from linear back to my desired color space. This is a suggested workflow from Neatvideo. My workflow is typically to let Resolve batch convert from 8k raw to 4k ProRes444 log so its still 12bit and 444 and flexible as a log format to still manipulate a lot. If the exposure and white balance is way off I correct it in the raw settings. I find if I am going to make those corrections its early in the process and then I don't really touch them ever again. It is insanely slow but I let it run overnight and the next day I have a pile of 100% perfect looking 4k material to work with. I can usually get through about 20 minutes a night on my M1 Pro 14" MBP. I do have a gaming PC with a 3060 GPU in it that is faster but I hate that I can't render to Prores444 on it. Right now its also more hassle than its worth to move material back and forth. If I have a lot to process however I could use both systems overnight. Someday I may find a good way to use the PC to become my render farm that can brute force all my material and keep my Mac just for the creative process. I considered DNX but I don't think it performs as well as ProRes does on a Mac.
DNxHD or DNxHR are the Windows equivalent to ProRes, i recommend checking those out for your intermediate codec. You could also try looking into FFmpeg to convert to ProRes on Windows (Google/Reddit also suggests a plugin called Voukoder for Resolve to export to ProRes via FFmpeg too). **Edit: i see you mentioned you tried DNx, and can understand there's some quirks with it. I would perhaps just look into the FFmpeg/Voukoder options then so you can at least use your PC as a render node for batch conversion! Absolutely agree NeatVideo is the best on the market, we use it as the standard in VFX and I don't trust any other tool to work as well or as consistently as it does. Would rather shoot in raw and denoise in post vs allow auto denoising in-camera. You're correct to convert to linear too, as in VFX we work entirely in linear colorspace and is the most accurate for any denoising, keying, and even color grading, and then back to log before adding your lut (if that's your workflow).
Hands Down best Video Noise Reduction ever 🙌 But one thing drives me Crazy, if i have a huge Project working on especially 4K Footage, Resolve crash by rendering from this Plugin, something is set wrong in the Memory Handling. Has Anyone a Solution for that?
Typically you wouldn't want to use this live across a timeline; you'd ideally apply it per shot, export the clips, and re-import/re-link to the denoised clips as it's not really designed to be an 'active' node. In VFX, we would export the denoised version, import the render, then disable/delete the node due to how heavy it is.
@@timeltdme4355 I did this demo on an M2 Mac Mini base but with 24GB RAM, but I have a PC also that’s a Ryzen 5950x, RTX 3090, 128GB RAM, 16TB HDD + 2TB NVMe. The Mac mini is what I use most though these days for editing & grading; and the PC for bigger VFX projects as vfx is my day job.
you take the denoised image and difference or minus it from the original footage. this leaves only the noise/grain behind, which you can then add/plus back over top should you wish to (such as for VFX, for example)
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Thanks! Good strategy for the subscription thing as well
yeah! I don't want my expensive plugins held hostage by a subscription!!!
I used Neat Video on After Effects....forgot how sweet this tool is, since I switched to DaVinci. Thx for Inspiring me to buy the plugin for DR
its magic, love it
Great vid!
Best Plugin!!!
It’s been an absolute life saver on some shots I’ve worked on!
I find Neatvideo to be the best solution out there to really extend raw video from Canon cameras to look much better than they ever could out of the box.
My favorite aspect of Neatvideo is how it adjust the strength of the reduction based on the brightness of the region of the frame. For example the lower the stop the closer it is to the noise floor. We need stronger noise reduction in the deeper shadows than we do in the brighter stops. This matches how sensors work in cameras. The lower the stop the worse the noise is. The higher the stop the better the noise is.
I shoot with a Canon R5 and love shooting 8k raw and using Neatvideo with c-log2 to really stretch how good the camera actually is. It breathes new life into what is otherwise not a very sensitive sensor. More time and effort but most cameras that shoot internal video use crude in camera noise reduction anyway.
A few other things I like to do is crank up the temporal frames to 5 and quality to high and the spatial to high as well. The default for Neatvideo is not at the highest possible quality. It gets even slower but I find the precision even better at maintaining bright area fine details.
I also convert raw material to a linear color space, then use Neatvideo, then convert from linear back to my desired color space. This is a suggested workflow from Neatvideo.
My workflow is typically to let Resolve batch convert from 8k raw to 4k ProRes444 log so its still 12bit and 444 and flexible as a log format to still manipulate a lot. If the exposure and white balance is way off I correct it in the raw settings. I find if I am going to make those corrections its early in the process and then I don't really touch them ever again. It is insanely slow but I let it run overnight and the next day I have a pile of 100% perfect looking 4k material to work with. I can usually get through about 20 minutes a night on my M1 Pro 14" MBP. I do have a gaming PC with a 3060 GPU in it that is faster but I hate that I can't render to Prores444 on it. Right now its also more hassle than its worth to move material back and forth. If I have a lot to process however I could use both systems overnight. Someday I may find a good way to use the PC to become my render farm that can brute force all my material and keep my Mac just for the creative process. I considered DNX but I don't think it performs as well as ProRes does on a Mac.
DNxHD or DNxHR are the Windows equivalent to ProRes, i recommend checking those out for your intermediate codec. You could also try looking into FFmpeg to convert to ProRes on Windows (Google/Reddit also suggests a plugin called Voukoder for Resolve to export to ProRes via FFmpeg too).
**Edit: i see you mentioned you tried DNx, and can understand there's some quirks with it. I would perhaps just look into the FFmpeg/Voukoder options then so you can at least use your PC as a render node for batch conversion!
Absolutely agree NeatVideo is the best on the market, we use it as the standard in VFX and I don't trust any other tool to work as well or as consistently as it does. Would rather shoot in raw and denoise in post vs allow auto denoising in-camera.
You're correct to convert to linear too, as in VFX we work entirely in linear colorspace and is the most accurate for any denoising, keying, and even color grading, and then back to log before adding your lut (if that's your workflow).
FIRST!!! lol …great tutorial
Hands Down best Video Noise Reduction ever 🙌 But one thing drives me Crazy, if i have a huge Project working on especially 4K Footage, Resolve crash by rendering from this Plugin, something is set wrong in the Memory Handling. Has Anyone a Solution for that?
Typically you wouldn't want to use this live across a timeline; you'd ideally apply it per shot, export the clips, and re-import/re-link to the denoised clips as it's not really designed to be an 'active' node. In VFX, we would export the denoised version, import the render, then disable/delete the node due to how heavy it is.
@CameronKidd Thanks for the helps 🙏🏻
curious what your computer specs are, not listed in the video description, thanks
@@timeltdme4355 I did this demo on an M2 Mac Mini base but with 24GB RAM, but I have a PC also that’s a Ryzen 5950x, RTX 3090, 128GB RAM, 16TB HDD + 2TB NVMe. The Mac mini is what I use most though these days for editing & grading; and the PC for bigger VFX projects as vfx is my day job.
Hmm then after you altered the clip. How did you restore the grain of the clip back to original?
you take the denoised image and difference or minus it from the original footage. this leaves only the noise/grain behind, which you can then add/plus back over top should you wish to (such as for VFX, for example)
This plugin will work in IPad Pro…?.?.?
I highly doubt it. It's a standalone app, or a 3rd-party for industry standard NLE's. probably too heavy for iPad hahaha