Is Neat Video worth the purchase price?

Hi Chris. Thanks so much for doing this!... The consensus seems to be that I'm overreacting a bit to how noisy the clips really are :) The clip of the girl in the striped shirt is part of the first two shooting days with the fx6 where I forgot that you should try to keep it at the base ISO unless you're really in dark conditions, so a great deal of the interior shots are at 12,800. I didn't have my laptop with me so I couldn't get a good look at the footage to see my exposure gaffe. And yes I exported the footage as a .mov.... IMO Neat Video did a much better job processing the clips. In fact, I wound up purchasing it last night. You did a great job of of retaining some of the organic grain in the clip in Neat - do you have any specific tips for doing so?

Again, thanks for your help...
 
No, Sir. Nothing special. If you look at the composite JPG I included you will see I just drew a rectangle selection to the left of her right shoulder and below the picture on the wall. NEAT did the rest when I applied that selection. NEAT just seems to be very well written code as it really does seem to be able to discriminate between what is actually organic detail and what is really temporal and spatial noise. Just practice a bit on a few shots and you will get the hang of it. If you need to dive further into NEAT the NEAT team have a few very good tutes on YT on how to get the best out of their plug. One of the best I think is this following one from eleven years ago on using NEAT v4.0. Everything in it still applies to the latest version. This particular video's demonstrated workflow, if followed will in most case give you results that you will be happy with. Good luck!

Chris Young

 
cyvideo said:
No, Sir. Nothing special. If you look at the composite JPG I included you will see I just drew a rectangle selection to the left of her right shoulder and below the picture on the wall. NEAT did the rest when I applied that selection. NEAT just seems to be very well written code as it really does seem to be able to discriminate between what is actually organic detail and what is really temporal and spatial noise. Just practice a bit on a few shots and you will get the hang of it. If you need to dive further into NEAT the NEAT team have a few very good tutes on YT on how to get the best out of their plug. One of the best I think is this following one from eleven years ago on using NEAT v4.0. Everything in it still applies to the latest version. This particular video's demonstrated workflow, if followed will in most case give you results that you will be happy with. Good luck!

Chris Young

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Got it. Thanks, Chris.
 
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