Closer to Perfection — Neat Video 5 is here!

If you shoot video, like us, you shoot for perfection and the quest is never-ending! Every new version of Neat Video brings us closer to the ideal of noise-free video. Which is why we’re excited to announce the launch of Neat Video 5 — the fastest, most powerful and most user-friendly version of Neat Video yet.

Let’s take a quick look at the new features, tools and improvements.

What's New in Neat Video 5?

Neat Video has been given an overhaul to improve its performance while adding new visual feedback features and adjustable generic profiles helping to achieve great results easier and faster.

Significant Speed Improvements

The Neat Video 5's noise reduction engine is more efficient and makes better use of the available processing power. As a result, Neat Video processes video frames faster across the board, with up to 3.5 times speed improvement on certain systems. Actual speedup depends on CPU, GPU and OS used:

• CPU-based processing
  • Up to 1.5x faster

• GPU-based processing

  Windows and Linux

  • 1 GPU:   Up to 3.5x faster (2.2x average)
  • 2 GPUs: Up to 2x faster (1.6x average)

  MacOS

  • 1 GPU:   Up to 2x faster (1.6x average)
  • 2 GPUs: Up to 2x faster (1.7x average)

As measured in Neat Video 5 running with the filter settings matching those of Neat Video 4.
The figures quoted above are for the speed of Neat Video alone. The improvement in project render time may be lower (because it involves the overhead of the video editing application) and varies from one application to another.

For more benchmarks and more hardware-specific details, check out history of changes.

You can quickly check the speed achievable by Neat Video 5 on your computer by downloading and running NeatBench 5.

Cleaner, Crisper Video

Neat Video 5 has improved the way frames are analysed and processed, which has resulted in a general improvement of noise reduction quality. Neat Video 5 also adds some powerful new features to deal with common imperfections in video.

• Flicker reduction
  Flicker is a distracting repeated change of brightness. Neat Video 5 includes new advanced flicker filters that can detect and reduce this problem for a more consistent look.
   
• Jitter reduction (jitter of details)
  Jitter of details is the distracting trembling of the objects in the scene seemingly distorted by heat haze. This problem is usually caused by video compression. Neat Video 5’s jitter filter detects and combats this effect to create smoother, more natural video.
   
• Improved noise reduction
  Reducing digital noise and film grain can be significantly complicated by presence of other imperfections such as flicker and jitter of details. Neat Video 5 uses its new flicker- and jitter-related tools to take into account and where possible reduce those imperfections to make the reduction of regular random noise and grain more accurate. All that together helps to eliminate more noise and retain more details than ever before.
   
• Improved sharpening
  Neat Video 5 adds new controls and makes improvements to the already sophisticated sharpening tool. It has been further refined to help users give their clips more definition and bring out the details without the features becoming unnatural or over-processed.
   
• Improved Dust and Scratches filter
  Dust and scratches are unwanted contaminations often found on archive film. Detection of those contaminations may be complicated by other imperfections such as flicker also often found in film-based video. The new flicker reduction tools of Neat Video 5 work together with the Dust and Scratches filter. Their synergy allows to identify and eliminate dust and scratches even more proficiently.

More User-Friendly than Ever

The Neat Video team has spent a great deal of time and effort to help users achieve better results easier and faster. As a result, Neat Video 5 has introduced several new features that make the plug-in more user-friendly and efficient.

• Easier profiling
  Neat Video 5 automatically obtains a better noise sample by using a larger number of frames for analysis — leading to more accurate noise profiles.
   
• Adjustable generic profiles
  Creating an accurate noise profile is the first step in quality noise reduction. Where possible, it’s best to build a noise profile using the very clip that needs to be denoised. Since this is not always possible, Neat Video 5 has introduced adjustable generic profiles to help you create a noise profile when the actual clip contains no suitable areas for analysis. This feature offers a good starting point and allows to easily tune the profile to more closely match the actual noise in the clip you’re working with.
   
• New visual feedback tools
  Neat Video 5 includes new visual feedback tools helping to adjust filter settings and achieve the best visual results. Specialized visual representations help to tune the amount of filtration applied. New masks help to find the areas that do not receive sufficient treatment.
   
• New playback features
  Want to see how the noise reduction results will look like in action? You can! With a new playback feature, Neat Video 5 gives you a live view of the final result directly in plug-in window. Allowing you to experiment and make changes before applying your final settings.

For more details on the changes in this new version check out the full list of changes.

Take the Next Step Toward Perfect. Try Neat Video 5!

That’s a quick look at the latest generation in ground-breaking digital noise reduction, but nothing beats the hands-on experience! So, take the next step and download the Neat Video 5 free trial and see for yourself this remarkable advance in the pursuit of perfect video.

Upgrading From Older Versions

If you purchased any of the previous versions of Neat Video, then you can upgrade to Neat Video 5 at a discount. Take advantage of the exclusive upgrade prices for loyal Neat Video users! Log in to your account to see available upgrade offers.