Neat Video 3.2

Neat Video updated for After Effects CS6 and Premiere Pro CS6

The updated Neat Video 3.2 plug-ins include for After Effects and Premiere:

Added support for Adobe After Effects CS6 (in Windows and Mac OSX)
Added support for Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 (in Windows and Mac OSX)

Optimized rendering in After Effects and Premiere: overall project render time becomes about 10-15% shorter
Additional optimizations of filters for multi-core CPUs and GPUs

Updated to CUDA 4.2
NVidia GTX 680 and newer GPUs are supported
Improved performance of GPU-based render

Color themes: normal and reduced brightness options (see in Neat Video Preferences)

Several compatibility issues and bugs have been fixed


Updated Neat Video: version 3.1

The updated Neat Video 3.1 plug-ins include:

Added support for HS-ART Dustbuster 4.5 (OpenFX plug-in; Windows and Mac OSX)
Added support for Assimilate Scratch 6.1 (OpenFX plug-in; Windows and Mac OSX)

Improved support for Motion 5.0.1 (plug-in for Final Cut, Mac OSX)

Added support for Adobe Premiere Elements 10 (plug-in for Premiere; Windows and Mac OSX)

Added support for Sony Vegas Pro 11 and Vegas Movie Studio 11 (plug-in for Vegas; Windows)

Improved accuracy of color channel processing in temporal filter; colors in fast-changing scenes are now preserved better

Updated to new CUDA 4 (improving compatibility with several NVidia GPUs)
Improved support for new GPUs (Compute Capability 2.x)

Optimized use of memory in GPU processing, making rendering more stable and in some cases faster
Improved stability of GPU processing for large frames (such as 8k)

Several compatibility issues and bugs have been fixed


New major version: Neat Video v3

Neat Video team is pleased to introduce the 3rd generation of its noise reduction solution for digital video.
The new major version 3 of Neat Video improves the visual quality and increases the rendering speed.

Neat Video v3 includes the following changes and improvements:
Improved quality of noise reduction

Improved quality of temporal filtration
Improved algorithms better detect and preserve details in filtered video data and thus improve the overall visual quality. Rendering results delivered by Neat Video v3 in most cases look better than those of the previous versions. You can simply re-render the existing projects with Neat Video v3 and get better visual output.

Improved accuracy of adaptive filtration
Adaptive Filtration option allows to adjust the filter to the changing noise with better precision now, leading to more accurate noise reduction.


Higher performance: x2 faster due to CUDA-acceleration

Faster noise reduction using modern CUDA-compatible GPUs
For example, enabling NVidia GTX 470 or GTX 285 on an i7-based computer makes Neat Video around x2 faster.
The speedup may be higher with i5 or Core2 Duo machines or with faster CUDA GPUs.

CPUs and GPUs working together
Neat Video can use both CPUs and GPUs at the same time for faster processing

Multiple GPU support
Neat Video works even faster with two or more CUDA GPUs

Optimization of performance settings for multi-core, multi-CPU and multi-GPU systems
Built-in Optimizer in Neat Video Preferences
Built-in Benchmark to measure processing speed with specific hardware and performance settings


Higher performance (more): x2 faster due to improved filter algorithms

Additional performance optimizations in filter algorithms to achieve higher rendering speed
Rendering is around x2 faster than in the version 2 (using CPU alone, even without CUDA)

CUDA-based acceleration and filter optimizations combined together enable up to x4 faster rendering as compared with Neat Video v2.


OpenFX for Linux is now supported too

In addition to the OpenFX plug-ins for Windows and Mac OSX hosts (Nuke, Fusion), Neat Video is now also available as an OpenFX plug-in for Linux host applications (Nuke for Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit).


Updated Neat Video plug-in for Final Cut: version 2.7

The updated Neat Video plug-in for Final Cut includes:

Support for new 64-bit Motion 5

Neat Video v2.7 is the first 32-bit/64-bit build of the plug-in for Final Cut. Currently, it can run in one 64-bit host application: Motion 5.
(the plug-in continues to support the older 32-bit hosts too: FCP 7, 6; Motion 4, 3; FCE 4)

The new 64-bit version of Final Cut Pro itself - FCP X - is not yet supported due to several bugs and missing features in the initial release of FCP X.
We hope that Apple will fix the discovered bugs and will add the missing features in one of the nearest updates of FCP X and then it will become possible to use Neat Video plug-in directly in FCP X. Until then, it is possible to run Neat Video in Motion 5 and then use the results in FCP X.

Additional control to adjust the number of CPU cores used for rendering
(to optimize performance on multi-core computers)

Several compatibility issues and bugs have been fixed

QUALITY OF NOISE REDUCTION
provided by Neat Video is higher than that of all other methods because:

* Neat Video incorporates the most advanced noise reduction algorithms in the industry
Neat Video noise reduction algorithms were developed for digital imaging and digital video processing field by a highly-qualified professional research group. These algorithms surpass the quality of all classic noise reduction methods and even that of the wavelet-based methods. Although the wavelet-based methods were developed only 10-15 years ago and are still considered relatively modern, Neat Video uses an even newer and more efficient approach to noise reduction. This approach allows drawing a more clear distinction between noise and details in noisy video data. This helps Neat Video reduce more noise and better preserve true details in digital video sequences.

* Neat Video builds and uses device noise profiles to make noise reduction custom-tailored to video capturing device
A device noise profile is a reusable analysis of noise properties of a video capturing device (digital video camera, film digitizer, etc.) working in a certain mode. Using a noise profile for a video capturing device in effect makes noise reduction custom-tailored to this device. Neat Video can automatically build noise profiles by analyzing the input video data.