History of Changes
Neat Video v5 plug-in for Vegas
Version 5.6.6
Added support for Magix Vegas Pro 22
Added Copy and Paste commands in the Effect, Profile and Filter menus to enable copy and paste of profiles, presets or both from one instance of the effect to another
Updated User Guide
Fixed several minor issues
Version 5.6.5
Improved descriptions in several warning and diagnostic messages
Several cosmetic corrections in plug-in's GUI
Updated User Guide
Very elongated frames were not processed correctly, fixed
Fixed several minor issues
Version 5.6.0
Added support for Magix Vegas Pro 21
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
- Radeon RX 7600 / 7600S / 7600M / 7600M XT
- Radeon RX 7700 XT / 7700S
- Radeon RX 7800 XT
- Radeon RX 7900 GRE / 7900M
Improved processing of certain error messages
Minor corrections in GUI of Preferences
Fixed several minor issues
Version 5.5.9
Added support for some AMD APUs based on gfx90c chips
(including AMD Ryzen 5 5600G / 5700G)Fixed several minor issues
Version 5.5.8
Added support for AMD GPUs:
- Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- Radeon RX 7900 XT
Improved diagnostic messages
Minor speedup when the alpha channel is present
Fixed no-filtration problem with some interlaced video
The Default profile option failed in some cases, fixed
Fixed several minor issues
Version 5.5.5
Added support for new version of host application:
Magix Vegas Pro 20Added support for new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPUs:
GeForce RTX 40-Series (4090 / 4080 / etc.)Several corrections in reactions of controls and indicators
Adjusted descriptions of controls
Adjusted the size of images shown in message dialogs
Fixed several minor issues
Version 5.5.0
Added support for Windows 11
Added support for AMD Navi 23 GPUs, including RX 6600 and RX 6600 XT
Improvements in GUI:
- Several corrections in menus
- Added hints in several controls
- Added shortcut for Auto Profile with Current Frame
Improved support for color themes (Preferences > General):
- Added new Auto-detect brightness option
- The Normal brightness theme has been re-designed
- Adjustments in the Reduced brightness color theme
Enhanced visual appearance on high-DPI monitors
Improved support for multi-monitor systems with different DPIs
Improved stability of GPU-based processing of large frames
Improved installer
End-User License Agreement has been updated
Fixed several minor issues
Version 5.4.8
Added support for a new version of the host application: Vegas Pro 19
Fixed several minor issues
Version 5.4.7
Fixed several minor issues
Version 5.4.5
Added support for AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (gfx1031, Navi 22)
Improved compatibility with the new GPU drivers from AMD
Improved information and error messages
Several improvements in GUI
Several corrections in documentation
Fixed several minor issues
Version 5.4.0
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
- Radeon RX 6800
- Radeon RX 6800 XT
- Radeon RX 6900 XT
A workaround has been added for a bug in AMD Adrenalin 20.7.1 and newer drivers with AMD RX Vega and Radeon VII GPUs which resulted in incorrect filtration results in GPU-only and CPU+GPU modes
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 5.3.0
Added support for Vegas Pro 18
Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs:
- GeForce RTX 3070 / 3080 / 3090
Note: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 3.0 are no longer supported.
Only GPUs with Compute Capability 3.5 and higher can be utilized by Neat Video 5.3Due to changes in AMD drivers, some older Graphics Core Next 1 GPUs are no longer supported.
In particular, Neat Video 5.3 no longer supports most Radeon HD 7xxx / 8xxx cards and other devices based on the following chip series: Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti.The full list of GPU series supported by Neat Video 5.3 on Windows is:
Bonaire, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, Ellesmere, Baffin, gfx804, gfx900, gfx901, gfx906, gfx907, gfx1010, gfx1012Better handling of incorrect data in input frames
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 5.2.6
Added support for Vegas Movie Studio 17 (Platinum/Suite)
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
- Radeon RX 5300M / 5500M
- Radeon RX 5500 / 5500 XT
- Radeon RX 5600 / 5600 XT
Optimized efficiency of playback in Neat Video preview
Optimized zoom adjustment on opening of Neat Video window
Improved positioning of Neat Video window during opening
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 5.2
Additional optimizations in GPU code:
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Better performance with single GPU on 8 and 16-bit clips:
up to 4%–8% depending on hardware and filter settings - Better performance with two GPUs working simultaneously
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Better performance with single GPU on 8 and 16-bit clips:
Several changes and improvements in GUI to better reflect the parameters of CPU and GPU used for processing
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 5.1.5
Added support for AMD Radeon RX 5700 / 5700 XT
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 5.1
Added support for Vegas Pro 17
Improved frame flicker reduction in certain edge cases
Improved filtration quality when multiple consecutive copies of a frame are present
Improved conversion of noise profiles prepared in old versions of Neat Video
Optimized performance in GPU modes
Added support for AMD Radeon VII
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 5.0
Optimized for modern hardware for faster processing
CPU-based processing:
- Up to 1.5x faster
GPU-based processing:
- 1 GPU: 1.4x..3.5x faster (2.2x average)
- 2 GPUs: 1.3x..2.0x faster (1.6x average)
Better filtration results: cleaner and crispier video
Flicker reduction
Jitter reduction (jitter of details)
Improved noise reduction
(helped by flicker and jitter reduction)Improved Sharpening with additional controls
Improved Dust and Scratches filter
(helped by flicker reduction)Improved filtration of monochrome videos
Better out-of-box processing of Full HD, 4K and larger videos
(Very Low Frequency filtration is now enabled by default)New tools to check accuracy and tune noise profiles
Easier than ever before
Automatic multi-frame analysis to build more accurate profiles
Flexible Generic Profiles
(fully adjustable, with visual assistance)Playback to check preview in motion, directly in Neat Video window
Visually assisted tuning for profiles and filters
Illustrated help dialogs for many filter settings and tuning modes
Expanded and updated set of pre-built filter presets
Variants now can be used to test different profiles too
More intuitive and interactive user interface (UI)
Several name changes in UI, including:
- Main tabs are now called "Prepare Noise Profile" and "Adjust and Preview"
- "Auto Profile" / "Build Profile" button (changes depending on selection)
- "Profile Check", "Assist Image", "Filter Settings Check", etc.
- "Repeated Frames" instead of former "Slow Shutter"
- Several other items renamed or moved
Adjusted meaning of the selection color in Prepare Noise Profile tab:
the blue color of the selection box now indicates that 'profile has been built using this area'
(not 'area was chosen automatically' as in older versions)Undo/Redo operations and history of changes for noise profiles
Select/drag modes in viewer (useful for computers with touchpads)
Alt+Mouse wheel in viewer zooms to point even when selection is present
Ability to toggle Alpha Channel in viewer (when present)
Preview performance has been optimized
Preview cache size adjustment to optimize for different resolutions (in Preferences > Preview)
Additional visual guidance to adjust the GPU memory allowed to Neat Video (in Preferences > Performance)
Other improvements
Customized names of profiles and presets are now saved in projects
An option to erase Neat Video settings and license during uninstallation
Improved diagnostic data and error reporting
Changes in products and licensing
End-User License Agreement has been updated
Home plug-in supports up to 1 GPU if available
The plug-in no longer supports 32-bit versions of Vegas Pro and Movie Studio
Version 4.8.5
Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs:
- GeForce RTX 2070 / 2080 / 2080 Ti
- Titan V
- Titan RTX
Due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 2.x and below are no longer supported. Only GPUs with Compute Capability 3.0 and higher can be utilized by Neat Video 4.8.5.
Due to changes in AMD drivers, some older non-GCN GPUs are no longer supported. In particular, Neat Video no longer supports Radeon HD 5xxx/6xxx cards and other devices based on the following chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman
The full list of GPU series supported by Neat Video 4.8.5 on Windows is:
Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti, Bonaire, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, Ellesmere, Baffin, gfx804, gfx900, gfx901Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 4.8
Added support for new versions of host applications:
- Vegas Pro 16
- Vegas Movie Studio (Platinum/Suite) 15
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
- Radeon RX 540 / 540X / 550 / 550X
- Radeon Pro WX 2100 / 3100
Improved support for AMD R9 290
Cosmetic improvements in GUI
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 4.7
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
- Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
- Radeon RX Vega 64
- Radeon RX Vega 56
Cosmetic improvements in GUI
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 4.6
Added support for Vegas Pro 15
Added a set of generic noise profiles to help preparing a noise profile in a situation when video contains no frames and areas suitable for analysis by Auto Profile
Ensured compatibility with AMD Radeon RX 560/570/580
Fixed processing of interlaced projects
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 4.5
A new Profile Assist viewer mode helps to choose areas without details for profiling
Larger areas can be used for profiling, when available
More accurate analysis of Very Low and Ultra Low frequency components when using small areas
Preview Assist viewer mode provides a more detailed look into results of noise reduction, which helps to adjust the filter settings faster and more precisely
A new Noise Level Tuning Assist tool helps to adjust Temporal Noise Level (former Temporal Threshold) using a visually enhanced preview
Added Slow Shutter Tuning Assist tool that helps to adjust Slow Shutter settings using a visually enhanced preview
Added Spatial Filter Tuning Assist tool that helps to adjust Spatial Filter settings using a visually enhanced preview
Quality Mode can now be adjusted separately for temporal and spatial filter
If a frame is not selected in the clip before opening Neat Video window, then the frame from the beginning of the clip is used automatically
Improved hardware compatibility for AMD GPUs:
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Re-implemented support for pre-GCN GPUs based on the following chip series:
Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman.
These include most 57xx/58xx/59xx and 67xx/68xx/69xx cards.
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Re-implemented support for pre-GCN GPUs based on the following chip series:
Multiple GUI improvements throughout the plug-in
Improved support for Unicode symbols in folder and file names
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 4.2
Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs: GeForce GTX 1060/1070/1080
Note: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 1.3 and below are no longer supported. Only GPUs with Compute Capability 2.0 and higher can be utilized by Neat Video 4.2.Added support for new AMD GPUs: Radeon RX 460/470/480
Note: due to changes in AMD drivers, some older non-GCN GPUs are no longer supported.
In particular, Neat Video no longer supports Radeon HD 5xxx/6xxx cards and other devices based on the following chip series:
Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman.
The full list of GPU series supported by Neat Video 4.2 on Windows is:
Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti, Bonaire, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, Ellesmere, Baffin.Several minor bugs have been fixed in all plug-ins
Version 4.1
Auto Profile function has been improved to find better areas for analysis.
Using more suitable areas leads to more accurate noise reduction.Several new controls have been added in filter settings:
- Temporal Filter: Amount has been added to control its strength
- Dust and Scratches: Half reduction and Full reduction modes have been replaced with Amount allowing for more flexible adjustments
- Normal and Aggressive modes of the filter have been added
Improved performance of Dust and Scratches in presence of repeated frames, on scene changes and in the beginning and end of a clip
Several improvements in GUI
Added support for stereo/3D video processing in Vegas
Copy&pasting an instance of "Reduce Noise v4" effect from one clip to another in a Vegas project did not work correctly, fixed
Added support for Windows 10
Added support for several new AMD GPUs:
- AMD Radeon R9 Fury / Nano / Fury X / Fury X2
- AMD Radeon R9 380 / 390 / 390X
- AMD Radeon R9 255 / 250X
- AMD Radeon R7 360 / 370
- AMD Radeon R7 265
Newer AMD Catalyst 15.7.1+ drivers are now supported.
Several minor bugs have been fixed in all plug-ins
Version 4.0
Higher quality of noise reduction
More accurate processing in scenes with changing luminance or chrominance: fade in/out, camera auto gain control, etc.
Very Low and Ultra Low frequency ranges added to the set of frequency components that can be separately targeted by the spatial noise filter
Dust and Scratches filter to remove film scratches, film dust, impulse interference.
Read moreSlow Shutter mode for video containing repeated frames
(clips shot in "slow shutter" or "night" mode, artificially increased frame rate, etc.).
Read moreImproved sharpening quality: less halos, sharper edges
High Quality mode for better detail preservation and sharper image
(at the cost of reduced processing speed: 1.5–4 times slower)Artifact Removal filter to remove digital artifacts — impulse noise typically introduced by video compression
(dots and small lines that are not fully removed by regular noise filters of Neat Video)Enhanced Edge Smoothing function
Mix with Original setting to enable mixing of the processed and original frames
(useful when some of the original noise must be preserved in the video)
Optimized workflow
Several source frames accessible directly in plug-in window provide a choice of frame for initial profiling and fine-tuning
Overall noise levels of the current selection and of the whole current profile are displayed in Device Noise Profile panel (in Advanced Mode)
(quick evaluation of the noise level helps to find the most suitable area for analysis)Better grouping of filter settings
Filter modules can be enabled/disabled individually to evaluate effect of each module on the overall resultImproved preview takes all temporal and spatial filters into account.
This allows to adjust filters individually and in combination as well as to avoid roundtrips to host application for checking the final results.Variants of filtration to visually compare results achieved with different filter settings
Multi-step Undo/Redo for filter settings
New collection of filter presets with a detailed description of each preset including specification of key settings, purpose, applicability, recommend
Estimation of processing speed and optimization of performance settings can now be done directly from Filter Settings panel.
This facilitates optimizing for a specific clip and filtration parameters.Options to set up the default noise profile and filter preset (in Neat Video Preferences)
Option for independent open/save folders for profiles and presets (in Neat Video Preferences)
Faster processing and more responsive GUI
Preview is optimized to update faster when filter settings are adjusted
Skip Neat Video Processing option to temporarily disable all instances of Neat Video filters to speed up editing in the host application.
Noise reduction is then not applied and the host application works significantly faster, which is especially useful in FCPX.
Neat Video processing can be globally re-enabled when necessary, for example right before the final render. It is also automatically re-enabled by a restart of the host application.Multiple optimizations have allowed to preserve the speed of processing despite its greater complexity
(as compared with the older Neat Video 3)Better support for systems with a large number of CPU cores (32 and above)
Other improvements
Support for HiDPI-modes in Windows and Linux (when the host application supports that)
Option to automatically check for availability of software updates (in Neat Video Preferences)
Improved progress indicator (easier to see, smoother movement, more accurate)
Numerous minor GUI improvements throughout the plug-in
Several bugs have been fixed
Version 3.6
Updated to CUDA 6: added support for new NVIDIA GPUs with Compute Capability 5.0
(such as GeForce GTX 750 Ti and more)Improved error reporting of GPU-specific issues
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 3.5
Added support for new AMD GPUs:
- AMD Radeon HD 7790
- AMD Radeon HD 87xx/88xx/89xx
- AMD Radeon R7 260X
- AMD Radeon R9 270X/280X/290X
- Another AMD/ATI GPU based on one of the following chip series: Bonaire, Hainan, Hawaii
The following AMD/ATI GPUs remain supported as well:
- ATI Radeon HD 57xx/58xx/59xx
- AMD Radeon HD 67xx/68xx/69xx
- AMD Radeon HD 77xx/78xx/79xx
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Another AMD/ATI GPU based on one of the following chip series:
Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman, Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 3.4
Performance optimizations for AMD/ATI GPUs, speedups in filter modes with larger temporal radiuses:
- in CPU+GPU mode: up to 25%
- in GPU-only mode: up to 65%
Performance optimizations for NVIDIA GPUs, speedups in filter modes with larger temporal radiuses and higher bitdepths:
- in CPU+GPU mode: up to 15%
- in GPU-only mode: up to 20%
Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA Compute Capability 3.5
(such as GeForce GTX Titan and Tesla K20)Improved reliability on systems with multiple OpenCL platforms (AMD/ATI and Intel)
New Navigator panel to quickly locate areas for profiling and preview using a thumbnail display
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 3.3
Added support for AMD/ATI GPUs
(GPU acceleration is now possible with both NVIDIA and AMD/ATI cards)The following AMD/ATI GPUs are supported:
- ATI Radeon HD 57xx/58xx/59xx;
- AMD Radeon HD 67xx/68xx/69xx;
- AMD Radeon HD 77xx/78xx/79xx;
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Other AMD/ATI GPUs based on one of the following chip series:
Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman, Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti
Several cosmetic improvements in GUI
Minor corrections in the reduced brightness color theme
Product registration was not always preserved reliably, fixed
Several minor bugs have been fixed
Version 3.2
Updated to CUDA 4.2: GTX 680 and newer GPUs are supported; improved performance of GPU render
Additional optimizations of filters for multi-core CPUs and GPUs
Color themes: normal and reduced brightness options, in Preferences
Several bugs have been fixed
Version 3.1
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)
Improved accuracy of color channel processing in temporal filter; colors in fast-changing scenes are now preserved better
In some rare cases, using CPU and GPU simultaneously could produce artifacts, fixed
Several bugs in GPU-based processing have been fixed
Number of CPU cores could be determined incorrectly in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, fixed
Version 3.0
Improved quality of noise reduction
Improved quality of temporal noise filter
Improved algorithms better detect and preserve details in filtered video data and thus improve the overall visual quality.Improved accuracy of Adaptive Filtration
Adjusting to the changing noise done by Adaptive Filtration option is more precise now, which leads 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