Continue sampling flat-coloured areas and hitting the “Manual Fine-Tune” button, and your denoise will continue to improve! If for some reason it doesn’t, you’re probably sampling areas of your plate that aren’t flat colours.Įxtra tip! If you have any reference plates for your shot, especially ones that include Grey Balls & Macbeth charts, you can use these! Simply hit “Apply” on Neat Video’s GUI, change the input of the Reduce Noise node to said reference plate, and re-open Neat Video’s GUI. Repeat this step as many times as you can, and your denoise should incrementally improve. You’ll notice the curves in the graph will change slightly, and hopefully, the Quality Percentage indicator (circled green in the example image) will get closer to 100%! Next, click the “Manual Fine-Tune” button (follow the red arrow in the example image). If you’ve been using Nuke 10 recently, you might not know of any additional options in Neat Video, as there is a major bug that prevents any icons showing on most of the buttons… With that in mind, here is how you “Manual Fine-Tune” your denoise.Īfter clicking the “Auto Profile” button, click and drag the sample box to a new location (Neat Video expects a flat part of your plate to get an accurate noise sample).

“Auto Profiling” is a start, but “Manual Fine-Tune” is a godsend. In v4, there is an “Input Data Type” button in the bottom-left of Neat Video’s GUI that looks like this: and you can choose the “Gamma corrected” option from in there. In v3, there is a “Linear Input” checkbox once you open up the Properties of the Reduce Noise node. Tip #1: Convert your image to log space!Ĭonverting your plate to a logarithmic colourspace will usually give you a nicer result! When you do this, you have to tell Neat Video that the pixels coming into the plugin have a gamma shift.

There are some slight differences between the latest version of the plug (v4) and the current version a lot of studios still use (v3), which makes this article a little tricky to write, but I’ll do my best to point out the differences where necessary. But what if I told you it could be even better?Īside from manually adjusting all the sliders for each type of noise, there are four things you can do to improve your result. All you have to do is run the plugin, click the magical button, and voila! You’ve got yourself a really nice denoise far better than any other denoiser out there today with the click of a button. Neat Video is one of the craziest plugins you can get for Nuke (and pretty much every other VFX software too, these days).

Neat reduce noise how to use v4