Denoising your Footage: Neat Video vs Denoiser II

Today we compare the Neat Video noise reduction plug-in to Red Giant's Denoiser II.

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gonna try this one takes the mystery out
of the effective techniques to go to
save your favorite Hollywood films right
calmly and working with dslrs for any
low budget camera for that matter will
often lead to some ugliness in your
image some artifacts noise from higher
iso's and so on there's plenty that you
can do while shooting to fight this
but a lot of times you don't really have
the luxury of that perfect shooting
scenario which is where noise reduction
plug-in comes into play there are few
including the amazing dark energy plugin
which if you have the cash would be the
way to go but it's double the price of
the ones that we're going to be looking
at today which ones that we will test
today are the two current most popular
neat video and red giants dordoi sir
ready go one of the biggest culprits of
noise and your image is going to be that
high iso setting so the lower you can
keep it the better you really want to
hit that native is so if your camera has
one that you can find otherwise just
keep it as low as you can
now to show you what I'm talking about
here is a shot with my lens cap on
as a raise is so you can see all that
ugliness getting introduced into the
image image into a compressed format
like ABC HD for the c100 or the h.264
for most DSLRs you were going to get
compression and noise and other issues
no matter what you do even when shooting
at the lowest or native is oh you're
still gonna have some issues and of
course that's why we introduce plugins
to help get rid of these issues a few
weeks ago I also showed how I always did
noise my image and add more filming
grain back into the shots for more
cinematic look and feel when working
with compressed footage i will always be
noise if i do have time to whether i add
green back in or not so let's jump into
these two then compare for starting with
meat video now I did two shots first at
20,000 I so to get some solid noise in
there and then the second one was an
extremely noisy 65,000 is 0 which is
completely unusable and will likely stay
that way i'm assuming this shot is too
far gone for these denoising softwares
to do anything with after i drop my shot
in i'm going to add meat video on there
then click the menu icon to bring up
meat video interface first thing i'm
doing here is click Auto profile and it
will bring up the selection tool
what you want to do here select an area
that doesn't
I'm detail just noise so an area like
this would be perfect whereas if I put
it here getting some detail from the
image neat video will see that as noise
and give you a crappy result so i'll
select this area here and click Auto
profile again which will give me a
quality percentage over here which they
say anything over sixty percent is good
eighty percent above is very good so
we're doing pretty solid right here
now we click noise filter settings and
it will add some noising over here we
have our basic tools to adjust our noise
reduction luminance will adjust the
light value areas chrominance will deal
with the color with chrominance all
usually jacket all the way up to hun
percent and leave it there
but if you put luminance - hi you start
getting that overly smudgy look and just
to show you what chrominance is doing
i'll take it all the way down and back
up and now if I talked with the whole
thing off and then back on you see how
much this is doing for image right off
the bat but and this is where neat video
sort of wind you can get in and really
dial in your settings a lot further by
going to tools and switching to advanced
mode in here you get a lot more options
in noise level you can mess with the
high mid and low which are small medium
and larger details
the luminance and the red and blue
channels best thing to do here is to
Jack all these settings all the way up
one by one to really see what they're
doing for your image and then tweak to
preference as we move down we have the
same with noise reduction amounts which
I will handle the exact same way and
then down here we have sharpening which
i rarely use since I usually hate the
look at gives for instance
I'll turn it on and jack up the high
it's just gross but if you mess with
enough on the right image you can get
some good results but now that we are
happy with our settings i'll hit apply
and there we go before and after this is
of course an extreme example so we
aren't getting a great final image even
still
but you can see how much work this thing
can do for you but Alice use magic
bullet denoise are on the same shot will
copy our clip over delete meet video
from it and add an oyster and it
immediately gives us a result which the
moisture is much more drag and drop the
neat video but still does a great job
off the back just like with me video i
want to get in and tweak my settings
first we have the noise reduction slider
which is defaulted at one hundred
percent
you can take it higher but the more you
push it the more you're going to get
that blurred look so i'll put it at 154
now next is motion estimate you'll check
this if there's a lot of new
I'm in your shot in separate fields for
in early shots then enhancement which is
basically sharpening i usually leave
this around the twenty percent default
and then if we twirl down fine-tuning
and advanced settings we go a little
further to tweak this how we want here
you can go further into the luminance
and chrominance we did with me video
fine details will bring out the edges a
bit helping to maintain some of the
finer areas down in the advanced setting
you can select whether you are working
with film grain or video noise we are of
course working with video then you can
tweak the noise detection and the shadow
and highlight offset all of these you
should handle just like we didn't need
video Jack them all the way up and back
down see what they're doing to your
image and go from there
but now we have our before and after and
here they are side-by-side need video on
top the noise on the bottom before and
the after
both are super simple to use each have
their pluses and minuses which we'll get
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no go so far we've only seen these shots
and still friends in motion it's a
totally different story so we're going
to look at these two shots in motion but
before we do this once again take a look
at the original and extremely noisy and
unusable image so this isn't an image
the bit of noise in it that we're trying
to clean up it's one that we're trying
to save
so first we have the neat video
corrected version and then the red giant
denoise are corrected version and for me
I think red giants denoise ER is winning
hands down which surprises me since I've
heard so much about need video I thought
that this would win in every way but
here I'm liking the end result that I
was able to get from the noise are much
more than what i was getting with me
video but then let's take a look at the
crazy 65,000 iso video of horribleness
first we throw on neat video which off
the bat blew my mind
here's the after with me video on that
before and again after just insane and
as a still frame
this is pretty amazing but then we jump
over to red giant and we look at the
before and after the noise sir
and this is looking pretty good as well
it's not quite as clean as new video but
it is still doing a pretty good job but
then we watch these back in motion
they both aren't looking so hot anymore
turns out there's not much saving the
shot the meat video version has this
waviness to the image as if there was
some kind of heat displacement happening
and the noise or version has just as
really distracted cloudy blocks over the
whole image of course this is of no
surprise the original image is just way
too far gone to save but if I had no
choice
I had to use this image i think i would
go with the meat video corrected version
in this case but then we moved to annoy
Z but not impossible shot like this one
they both do a really good job there
really isn't too much of a difference
between the two on a normal shot like
this if I would get the advantage to one
I would still probably go with magic
bullet the noise or since it does have
finer detail when i finish the noises
whereas i finally get more of that
cloudy
chunky look from meet video plus and
minus says I'd say that need video does
seem a bit faster and I do like the
extra controls and the ability to create
a custom green profile but i also found
it to be a touch buggy and times the
noise there is a bit slower and loses
the battle when it comes to those super
EXTREME shots but on average i like the
look that I'm getting more from this
than I do with meat video i also like
that it comes with the color sweet from
red giant so if you get that sweet
you're just getting too noisy with it if
you buy them by themselves both go for
ninety nine dollars on their own so no
advantage on either side there and at
the end
and i'm falling on the side of red
giants denoise or but honestly I think
both are very good so regardless which
you choose i think you're going to be
happy I just prefer the simplicity and
that finer detail that I get from the
noise or if you want to check out either
of those plugins make sure you check out
the notes section below for links and
all that good stuff
I believe both of them have free trials
no go
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