Damn nice video, thx for sharing this one

The company that makes Neat Video also makes a product called Neat Image that comes with a calibration target. I've had good results with the method described above by using the calibration target and manually building my noise profile using samples from several different squares. According to the Neat Video forums, the target gives you a much more complete noise profile than other sampling methods. Here's a copy in JPEG format if anyone would like to use it.

I used adaptive filtration because when exposure changes the noise changes and because i apply the filter to a video with many cuts, various different images edited togheter, so there was some differences in noise pattern from one image to other. I did some tests in sharpen and i did not find noticeable differences in apply sharpen just to luma only, but maybe it can be better. the main slider to tweak is the Y slider, i found it is better when set to 30 instead of 50 or 40, taking into acount the other settings are the same as of in the tutorial, because the image gets less plastic look.

Here are a couple I've done for my cameras at ISO 1250. The one for Christina's camera is probably more accurate. We have two GH2s, and I'm planning on building profiles for each camera at every ISO. If somebody wants to test the Christina profile on their footage and is happy with the results, I may just post profiles for each ISO here for everyone to use.

Here we go. The neatvideo noise profiles (noise pattern) for all isos and four preset settings for noise reduction for GH2.

Now the new ZIP file with noise profiles (noise pattern) for all isos including ETC (extended tele conversion) mode all isos and new improvements in the presets to get a less plastic/digital look.

Now with new presets very fine tunning settings with great noise reduction results.

Thx apefos,

Outstanding! Your work is really helpful - thanks so much :)

thats great news, so everybody can download and use the presets I saved!

Wouldn't the amount of noise in either of the R, G or B channels also change based on your white balance settings? For example, if you were shooting with the camera at 3200K under tungsten light, wouldn't the blue channel have more noise than if you were shooting with the camera set at 5600K under daylight?

This might mean making a set of profiles at 5600K and one at 3200K at all the different ISOs.

Thoughts?

the details are richs!

Thanks for the presets. For those who are wondering about the difference between V2 and the newer V3 of Neat Video, I would summarize as follows: 1. Make sure you have the "pro" version of either 2. The V3 version is way faster if you have an Intel i7 and/or cuda card. V3 will also run a utility to set preferences for how many CPU cores/GPU cores are used. I would estimate it runs twice as fast on good hardware. The glacial speed of V1 and V2 was the biggest drawback, along with the crashes. The website claims 4x faster with i7 and cuda, I didn't see this, but I was happy with the speed increase. 3. The "auto" sampling setting is slightly better. 4. Slight improvement in quality of noise removal 5. It crashes, but somewhat less than V2. It is less susceptible to multiple effects on the same clip..

I would always apply noise reduction in the first step on the raw footage, then apply levels & curves & looks. If you later realize that you need more or less reduction/sharpening in a certain way you can still go back and tweak neat video. This way you can just load one .dnp into neat video (as long as your iso stayed the same) on first clip and then copypaste the effect onto the other clips. If you do any adjustments before you apply neat video you would need to build a new noise profile each time.

And don´t limit yourself to just loading .dnp files, get used to the controls inside neat video so you adjust to the needs of the footage (And don´t overdo... nobody is paying for the 3 % less noise.. ;)