Bruce Watson
Veteran
I just bought NeatVideo for PPro cs6. Just sayin' that I'm a noob with it. I set it up just like their website tutorials instruct.
My first export was a bit strange. I'm using a Luma Curve, the Three Way Color Corrector, and NeatVideo's Reduce Noise effects in that order (top to bottom in the Effect Controls stack). I've exported this clip a couple of times, once before NeatVideo (which is what convinced me to buy it) and then again after. The difference between the two is the addition of NeatVideo; nothing else changed.
What I'm seeing is that the NeatVideo version gives me much less graininess, which is a good thing. But it's also making the image darker and more contrasty. Sufficiently so that I have to fix it.
I can verify that it's real by looking at the YC Waveform. As I switch the Reduce Noise effect on/off, the YC Waveform shows that my peaks extend by about 10 IRE, both top and bottom. I had to look up what happens when you get a black that is less than zero IRE, which was an interesting learning experience all by itself. :grin: But not something I want to show on the web or burn to DVD.
It seems to be tied to NV's sharpening. If I turn on a modest amount of sharpening to recover some of the detail lost in the de-speckling process, I see what's described above in the YC Waveform. If I turn off the sharpening, I don't see this in the YC Waveform. Next up is to export a 30 second clip, one with and one without sharpening and compare them full screen.
If I can get away without sharpening, I guess I don't have a problem. But sooner or later I'm going to want sharpening. When I do, how do I compensate for the contrast and tone changes?
My first export was a bit strange. I'm using a Luma Curve, the Three Way Color Corrector, and NeatVideo's Reduce Noise effects in that order (top to bottom in the Effect Controls stack). I've exported this clip a couple of times, once before NeatVideo (which is what convinced me to buy it) and then again after. The difference between the two is the addition of NeatVideo; nothing else changed.
What I'm seeing is that the NeatVideo version gives me much less graininess, which is a good thing. But it's also making the image darker and more contrasty. Sufficiently so that I have to fix it.
I can verify that it's real by looking at the YC Waveform. As I switch the Reduce Noise effect on/off, the YC Waveform shows that my peaks extend by about 10 IRE, both top and bottom. I had to look up what happens when you get a black that is less than zero IRE, which was an interesting learning experience all by itself. :grin: But not something I want to show on the web or burn to DVD.
It seems to be tied to NV's sharpening. If I turn on a modest amount of sharpening to recover some of the detail lost in the de-speckling process, I see what's described above in the YC Waveform. If I turn off the sharpening, I don't see this in the YC Waveform. Next up is to export a 30 second clip, one with and one without sharpening and compare them full screen.
If I can get away without sharpening, I guess I don't have a problem. But sooner or later I'm going to want sharpening. When I do, how do I compensate for the contrast and tone changes?
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