Neat Video for After Effects or Premiere?

[Peter Moretti]

I do most of my editing in Avid MC. But certain limitations in MC, like no Neat Video plugin, mean I'd like to start finishing in CS5.5 (which I dabble in from time to time).

I'm wondering if I should get Neat Video for AE or for Premiere? Is there any significant reason why I should choose one host application over the other?

Thanks very much!

 

[Gabe Conroy]

I'd say it depends on whether you'll need to do any full-on After Effects stuff. I find Premiere a lot easier to work with for entire edits, and it runs in 32-bit floating point space so you're not sacrificing precision by using it.

 

[Will Keir]

What is the cost of the Neat Video Plugin for PP?

 

[Eric Santiago]

I too am wondering about this.

Just getting ready for a huge post job dealing with tons of low light footage.

 

[Joe Minuni]

I got it for both AE and PP, you can get a bundle price, and it is so useful why not? Big fan of the software and it is very fast.

Pricing is here http://www.neatvideo.com/purchase.html

 

[Peter Moretti]

Joe, I was going to bundle the Avid version with an Adobe version.

Since I mostly use Avid, but do use Adobe CC from time to time, I'm wondering if there is any reason to choose Ae over Pr for Neat Video? I'm probably going to go with the Ae version since there is a good chance I'll doing the editing in MC instead of Pr anyway.

But any other insight would of course be appreciated.

 

[Mike Garrick]

I downloaded a version for CS6 . Tried it out and was getting not great results. Had mapped the noise pattern etc. So obviously doing something wrong.

Any handy hints ?

 

[Gabe Conroy]

I downloaded a version for CS6 . Tried it out and was getting not great results. Had mapped the noise pattern etc. So obviously doing something wrong.

Any handy hints ?

Is it working in full res? if you have paused resolution set to something lower, the frame Premiere delivers to the plug-in interface may be lower resolution. Neat Video should say down in the corner of its window what the resolution is...it should also be 32-bit, if it says 8-bit close the Neat Video window and re-open it.

 

[Lauri Astala]

I bought the NeatVideo plug-in for both AE and PP (CS6). I work with Mac. The plug-in works flawlessly with AE, but I had a major problem with PP. The problem is explained in Adobe support forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5033713#5033713

The fault is in PP and how it reads files, the fault is not in the plug-in. The results in PP are unacceptable. However, I have experience only with Mac environment, not PC.

So, cannot recommend NeatVideo with PP, but works great with AE!

 

[Mike Garrick]

Thanks Gabe & Lauri

Sound like AE is the way to go........& seems like with all things Premier ...just put it down to another "clunky" bug.

 

[Dominik Muench]

I bought it for final cut X and it delivers great results but apparently the performance of the plugin varies considerably on different platforms and programs....on final cut X its frustratingly slow and takes ages to render and crashes every now and then.

 

[Eric Santiago]

I bought it for final cut X and it delivers great results but apparently the performance of the plugin varies considerably on different platforms and programs....on final cut X its frustratingly slow and takes ages to render and crashes every now and then.

Sorry to hear that Dominik, whats your specs?

I was thinking of adding it to my FCPX on a Mac Pro with dual Quadro 4000s.

It seems to work decent in After Effects (Mac and PC).

But have never tested on an NLE.

 

[Dominik Muench]

hey Eric,

im on a 2.3GH I7 macbook pro with 16gb of ram and SSD system drives....probably not ideal but every time i start neat video, i can feel final cut x getting super sluggish and unresponsive. it does the job....but it takes a while.

 

[Peter Moretti]

I bought the NeatVideo plug-in for both AE and PP (CS6). I work with Mac. The plug-in works flawlessly with AE, but I had a major problem with PP. The problem is explained in Adobe support forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5033713#5033713

The fault is in PP and how it reads files, the fault is not in the plug-in. The results in PP are unacceptable. However, I have experience only with Mac environment, not PC.

So, cannot recommend NeatVideo with PP, but works great with AE!

Thanks so much!!!