Neat Video 6: Supersonic Jumbo Jet

Intelligent, Efficient, Fast

Can you imagine waiting at the gate for your 19-hour flight from New York to Singapore? The feeling can be daunting, even if you are in business class, let alone economy. Now, how would you like the news that the airline had upgraded their fleet and you would only spend 12 hours in the air? There wouldn’t be many complains, that’s for sure.

The new version 6 of Neat Video is just like that: it allows to complete render jobs up to 2 times faster (depending on the video editing application, hardware, project and Neat Video settings).

In addition, Neat Video 6 uses up to 2 times less memory, making it more efficient for high-resolution videos. It’s like getting extra luggage space and legroom as a compliment.

Let's take a closer look at what this new major version has to offer.

Faster Render Engine

The new engine in Neat Video 6 supercharges the render process with more efficient use of available computing power, more economic use of memory, smarter internal processing pipeline and better optimized code.

Intelligent Efficiency

In the previous versions, you had to manually enable the use of GPUs in Neat Video and also manually optimize its Performance settings to get faster rendering in each project. Neat Video 6 can now do all that (and more) on its own, applying automated intelligence where it is most needed — to make rendering faster.

• Harness All Computing Power
  Neat Video 6 will automatically use the available CPU and GPU resources, out of the box. It will also automatically optimize its performance settings for maximum render speed. No need to do that manually now.

• Intelligent Adaptation
  Neat Video 6 also uses a new built-in intelligent system to monitor, analyze and dynamically adjust the performance parameters within an ongoing render process to achieve the best speed in each individual segment of the project timeline. This system can also adapt to changes in editing, such as adding more effects or clips with different resolutions, as well as fluctuations in the overall computer processing speed due to other applications or changes in performance mode. It can also adapt to changes in hardware, such as when you add or replace a CPU or GPU.

Such intelligent adaptation was not available in previous versions. This new feature can automatically and intelligently handle those technical aspects for you, reducing the render time and saving you time for more creative work.

Raw Power

Neat Video 6 takes several additional steps to make the render engine simply faster.

• Fast Floating Point Processing for Higher Speed
  The software now uses a new and more efficient Fast Floating Point Processing mode by default. This allows for faster rendering without sacrificing image quality. The Full Processing mode remains an option available to Pro users who may need it in VFX, CGI and other similar fields.
   
• Optimized CPU + GPU Performance
  Both CPU- and GPU-specific bits of code have been additionally optimized to deliver higher computing efficiency at the very heart of the video processing engine. Moreover, Neat Video 6 more intelligently distributes load between the CPU cores and GPUs, leveraging the strengths of each.
   
• Parallel Processing and Idle Time Reduction
  Neat Video 6 enhances efficiency further by doing more work in parallel with the host application, reducing idle time and ensuring faster rendering.
   
• GPU Integration with Video Editing Applications
  Neat Video 6 continues adding GPU-based integration with capable video editing applications. The GPU integration allows the host application and plug-in to exchange video data using the GPU and its memory, which is significantly faster than the system memory. Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve users are the first to benefit from this technology. We are also looking forward to add this functionality in more plug-ins for other capable host applications.
   
• Newest Hardware Supported
  Neat Video 6 adds support for the latest Apple Silicon machines based on M4 series of chips. The new 50-series of NVIDIA GPUs (including such models as RTX 5090 and 5080) are also supported now. RTX 5090 is the fastest ever GPU that can run Neat Video.

Higher Resolution Made Easier

With more projects using UHD, 4K, 5K, 6K, 8K resolutions and beyond, video editors have to keep up with the increasing hardware and especially memory requirements to allow a comfortable working pace without significant slowdowns.

Neat Video 6 is designed to use memory smarter and more efficiently. The new render engine requires less memory for its work and therefore can get more performance out of the hardware you already have.

• Smarter Memory Management
  Neat Video 6 is designed to dynamically adjust its use of the GPU memory (VRAM), which is especially important for computers with limited amount of GPU memory. Smarter memory usage reduces the likelihood of system throttling, slowdowns, and excessive use of virtual memory, etc.
   
• Higher Resolution without Memory Overload
  Thanks to improved memory management and a more efficient data format, Neat Video 6 requires significantly less RAM and VRAM than Neat Video 5, in some cases up to 2 times less. This helps Neat Video 6 to handle high-resolution projects easier.
   
• Extending Hardware Life
  The software’s reduced memory footprint lowers possible use of virtual memory, which in turn reduces use and wear of SSDs. This is particularly important for Apple Silicon machines that aggressively use the virtual memory to compensate shortage of Unified Memory. This can also reduce the need to upgrade or replace the whole computer or its components.

More Accurate with HDR Video

And, of course, the filter itself has been improved, delivering more accurate denoising and de-flickering in situations involving HDR footage or footage that is underexposed or overexposed.

• Adjustable Gain for Accurate Noise Reduction
  If you work with an underexposed or overexposed video, or with a regular HDR video, then adjusting the input gain before profiling and noise reduction can help Neat Video to do its job more accurately. Neat Video 6 now has a new control to allow you to apply a gain adjustment in order to prepare the input video for optimal processing. This gain adjustment is temporary, only used internally by the software to process the video and then it is undone once processing is complete. This new feature offers a recommended value to make it easier for you to choose the right adjustment. In the Pro version, you can also manually adjust this value.

Special Treats for Premiere Pro Users

If you're a Premiere Pro user, Neat Video 6 offers some important improvements tailored just for you. The added GPU integration allows to avoid several known issues of Premiere Pro, speed up rendering and enhance your overall editing experience in Premiere Pro.

• GPU Integration
  Neat Video 6’s newly added GPU-based integration of the plug-in with Premiere Pro enables shorter rendering times because Neat Video and Premiere Pro can exchange video data faster. Additionally, the use of the GPU-based integration allows to avoid many Premiere-specific issues that sometimes show up when using the traditional CPU-based integration. This leads to more visually accurate and predictable results when previewing and rendering in Premiere Pro.
   
• Lumetri Case
  Neat Video 6 implements a set of measures to avoid one of the most significant slowdowns in Premiere Pro: its render performance is reduced a lot (we observed a x5 and even x10 slowdown in some cases) whenever Lumetri is processed before a temporal effect. Neat Video 6 users can now avoid this slowdown without having to keep Lumetri after the denoiser.

Maintaining Top of the Line Filters

One of the challenges of this release has been maintaining the excellent filtering capabilities of Neat Video across multiple optimizations applied to achieve higher performance. Thanks to the experience and dedication of the team all the filtering power and accuracy have been preserved and Neat Video 6 is going super-strong when filtering various types of video noise, grain, flicker, dust, scratches and other imperfections.

Try Neat Video 6!

That’s a quick look at the latest generation of the digital noise reduction, but nothing beats the hands-on experience! Please take the next step and test-drive the free trial version of Neat Video 6.

Pricing and Availability

• Neat Video 6 products are plug-ins for a variety of video editing applications.
• Versions of Neat Video 6 for all supported operating systems are included into each corresponding product. For example, the Neat Video 6 Pro plug-in for Premiere product includes both Windows and MacOS versions of the plug-in.
• All Neat Video 6 products are delivered as a digital download.
• Most Neat Video 6 products are available in two or three editions:
  • Demo plug-in: evaluation version with limited functionality. Download to try it for free.
  • Home plug-in: can process frames of up to 1920x1080 pixels; can use up to one GPU; for non-commercial use; from $99.90. Purchase
  • Pro plug-in: can process frames of any size; can use multiple GPUs; may be used for commercial purposes; from $149.90. Purchase
• Please see the Feature map for more details on features available in each edition.

Transition from Previous Versions

When is it time to upgrade? Anytime!

As we always do, we offer our users a significant discount for upgrading to a new major version (the version 6 now) from any of the older versions. If you purchased Neat Video 5 relatively recently, you receive an additional discount as well. You can find the upgrade offer in your account.