Neat Video and shot-to-shot consistency?

[GHKAM]

Let's say you determine in one clip noise needs to be cleaned with Neat Video; but the next clip doesn't haven't any noise. Should some amount of NV noise reduction be applied to the shots that don't need it, anyway, in order to maintain a certain look?

Isn't there some softening going on? If you didn't apply any of that to a shot that doesn't have a noise issue; would it look rougher or at least different, when played after a scene with NV noise reduction/softening? Thanks.

 

[Duke M.]

Neat Video doesn't really soften, IMHO. Just set it to look over a 5 frame area and it will fill in the bad/grain pixels by seeing how the area looks in other frames.

The issue really is, is the footage too sharp and clean to match the other footage. To that I say, don't be too aggressive in your noise reduction. Use a smaller number.

Overall though, Neat Video is really neat. (couldn't resist.)

 

[GHKAM]

Neat Video doesn't really soften, IMHO. Just set it to look over a 5 frame area and it will fill in the bad/grain pixels by seeing how the area looks in other frames.

The issue really is, is the footage too sharp and clean to match the other footage. To that I say, don't be too aggressive in your noise reduction. Use a smaller number.

Overall though, Neat Video is really neat. (couldn't resist.)

Thanks, Duke. Good to know it doesn't really soften the image.

Yes, it is neat.