Is Neat Video worth the purchase price?

scorsesefan

scorsesefan

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I have some underexposed/grainy slog3 footage that composes about 20 minutes of a feature length doc. It's not terrible but it's bothering me. Neat Video sometimes has sales but right now it's $150 for the "pro" version. Is it a worthwhile purchase?

p.s. I have the studio version of Resolve, but I'm a). editing the doc In Premiere pro b). not well versed in Davinci.

Thanks
 
Waqas Qazi is the man. In this video he shows an example of adjusting an underexposed/grainy clip in Davinci Resolve with Davinci's noise reduction and then while still in Davinci, with the same clip, using Neat. Nice side-by-side comparison. You decide.
 
scorsesefan said:
I have some underexposed/grainy slog3 footage that composes about 20 minutes of a feature length doc. It's not terrible but it's bothering me. Neat Video sometimes has sales but right now it's $150 for the "pro" version. Is it a worthwhile purchase?

p.s. I have the studio version of Resolve, but I'm a). editing the doc In Premiere pro b). not well versed in Davinci.

Thanks
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This doesn't directly answer your question, but I like to evaluate software tools based on a "time-saved" cost analysis. If $150 saves me an hour, or two hours, or three, etc. over the course of an edit, or many edits, then it's money well spent.

That being said, Resolve's built-in noise reduction is what I use on all of my projects. I haven't had a need to pony up for Neat Video myself. But usually I'm shooting my own footage that is well exposed or getting footage in-hand that looks pretty good.

If you're willing to roundtrip over to Resolve the footage you want to use NR on, then you could at least get a free look at how good of a job it might do?
 
DustinSchmidt said:
This doesn't directly answer your question, but I like to evaluate software tools based on a "time-saved" cost analysis. If $150 saves me an hour, or two hours, or three, etc. over the course of an edit, or many edits, then it's money well spent.

That being said, Resolve's built-in noise reduction is what I use on all of my projects. I haven't had a need to pony up for Neat Video myself. But usually I'm shooting my own footage that is well exposed or getting footage in-hand that looks pretty good.

If you're willing to roundtrip over to Resolve the footage you want to use NR on, then you could at least get a free look at how good of a job it might do?
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Thanks, Dustin. What is your round trip process? I guess for random clips xml isn’t the best way…?
 
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