denoiser for 2K. what do you use?

[Jan Reiff]

i posted some 300 f/s footage today under another thread:

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?61871-Steve-McQueens-Racecar-...

as the weather was really bad when shooting 300 f/s (very dark and rainy) i pushed the material to the limit - i used neatvideo to denoise the 2K footage in this case.

what´s your tool to denoise 2K footage when necessary?

 

[Nils Ruinet]

Neatvideo is great. I used it on an XDCAM project a few months ago on which I had to really push the cameras (night footage on a big show), 6 or even 12 dB, had no choice, and Neatvideo really saved the footage, which was sometimes very noisy. I saw it projected on a big screen and it looked good. Easy to use, not too slow, smart... Would love to hear what other people use though.

 

[Michael Mayda]

+1 for Neatvideo. It is cheap, fast and amazingly good and has saved my butt a couple of times on night shoots. NukeX has a new denoise tool that is very good and flexible.

 

[Philip Powell]

I like the NR inside AE. What I have seen work wonders is to enable "Temporal Blending", you remove the noise and it adds little to no softness like many solutions. It works great on many shots, however if there is a lot of rapid, frantic action in the scene (camera or subject) it breaks. You get strobing.

 

[Miltos Pilalitos]

NeatVideo. Nothing even comes close to it. It's the best.

 

[Rob Ruffo]

+1 for Neat Video, and we've tried them all.

 

[John Marchant]

Neatvideo is great, but if you're at the point of shooting 2k material I'd suggest rating the camera lower than ISO800 (and hence paying special attention not to blow your highlights).

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

A month ago I would have said Neat, but the new denoiser in Nuke 6.3 is really really really good.

 

[paulherrin]

neatvideo is very good even out of the box, and can give you full control over the processing. the interface is good, don't judge the plugin based on their website, lol. that helps them keep the costs down and deliver a better product, i suppose.

i like it better than nuke's previous denoiser (which is part of furnace from "the foundry", also available in other softwares). i've not gone to 6.3 yet, so i'll check it out on that recommendation gavin, and until then... i'll recommend gavin's recommend.

one thing that will interesting besides the final image will be speed differences (in addition to workflow and pricepoint advantages for one or the other).

look into MSTemporalDenoise and MSU Denoiser (free non-commercial) as open source options. i have not used either, but have heard good things.