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1. rea x File N C SampleClip mp4 2 Drag and drop Neat Video from there to the clip in the timeline Cip Name a Source In 00 00 00 00 Source Out 209 Edius will add Neat Video to the clip you will see a new line Neat Source Duration TL In Video added in the Information tab E2 F E Neat Video Important Check the order of effects in the Information tab Make asa sure Neat Video goes first there and stays above Layouter as shown in the lower image on the right Manually drag Neat Video to the top there if necessary Information 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius 4 3 Stage Ill Configure Neat Video 1 Open Neat Video plug in window 1 In the Information tab select the Neat Video line and click the Open Setup Dialog button or just double click the Neat Video line to open the Neat Video Configuration window 2 Click the Configure button to open the main Neat Video plug in window Configure The Neat Video plug in window will appear and will show the Temporal filter currently selected frame from the clip 2 Load noise profile To reduce noise in this frame and in the whole clip Neat Video generally needs a noise profile describing the noise properties of the clip We have prepared such a noise profile in advance The profile is savplied with the test kit in the SampleProfile dnp file Load it into plug
2. Documents Neat Video for Edius Profiles If you build or download some pre built profiles save them to that folder and Neat Video will show those profiles in the popup menu to help you quickly load any of them To additionally fine tune the loaded profile You may want to additionally fine tune the profile you have just opened Click the Auto Fine Tune button to fine tune the loaded profile to the current clip There is no need to select any area in the frame because the Auto Fine Tune automatically analyzes the whole frame Fine tuning usually makes the profile more accurate and better matching the noise in the current clip Please note that you do not need to fine tune a profile if you have just built it using Auto Profile Auto Profile automatically applies fine tuning so you do not need to repeat it 5 7 Stage VII Adjust intra frame filter settings Make sure you use the Noise Filter Settings tab press ies nes The Neat Video noise reduction and sharpening filters have several settings that you can adjust Default noise filter settings are based on the noise analysis provided by the noise profile these settings usually produce good filtration results if the noise profile is accurate You may want to additionally vary the filter settings to achieve the filtration results that look best to your eyes 5 7 1 Use intra frame preview when adjusting filter settings The viewer in the Noise Filter S ettings tab shows a part of
3. Neat Video plug in for Edius If the noise filtration looks too strong try to decrease the noise reduction amounts for appropriate components If the noise filtration is not sufficient then increase the amounts Adjusting sharpening settings in Standard mode optional The sharpening filter in Neat Video increases sharpness of the video clip without increasing the noise strength The sharpening filter is disabled sharpening amount is set to 0 by default Increase the sharpening amount to sharpen the video Like with any sharpening method you need to balance the sharpening amount to avoid over sharpening Filter Settings Use the preview when adjusting the sharpening Default Adjust sharpening amount Noise Reduction Amounts Luminance Use the Sharpening Amount slider Specify how much sharpening should be applied to the frame paisa r 7 Sh i Use intra frame preview ae Amount Use the preview when adjusting the sharpening setting As you make changes to the sharpening setting do not forget to check the preview Use the preview on different parts of the frame to get a better feeling for the results of sharpening As soon as you are happy with the preview results regarding both noise reduction and sharpening proceed to save the filter settings into a preset see page 15 or directly to Apply intra frame filter settings page 15 5 7 4 Adjust filter settings Advanced mode As said above Neat Vide
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5. and general comments Web page http www neatvideo com 28 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius 10 5 Legal information Copyright Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved License agreement By downloading and or in any way using the Neat Video plug in for Edius called Neat Video hereunder in this agreement software you indicate that you do accept this license agreement If you are unable or unwilling to accept this license agreement then you may not use the Neat Video software and must return and or destroy all copies of Neat Video in your possession You may Use the Demo edition of Neat Video free of charge for non commercial purposes only Copy and distribute the Demo edition of Neat Video Run the Home or Pro edition of Neat Video on one or more up to the number specified in your license computer computers at a time for commercial and other purposes provided you are a registered user and you have a valid license for the corresponding edition of Neat Video You may not Sublicense rent lease and sell any version of Neat Video or any portion of it including the license data without the explicit written permission from the Neat Video team ABSoft Copy share and distribute the Home and Pro edition of Neat Video or any portion of it including the license data without the explicit written permi
6. and therefore recommended The second option is available once you have already built and saved several profiles for various modes of your video capturing device To build a new profile using the selected frame from the clip Make sure you use the Device Noise Profile tab Click the Auto Profile button Neat Video will find and select the area selected by Auto Profile for main analysis Neat Video will then automatically analyze the noise in that area and then in the whole frame too to build a new noise profile In difficult cases Neat Video may be not able to find a large enough uniform featureless area in the frame You will notice that the selected area for example will contain some important details not just noise In such cases Neat Video also warns you that the area is not suitable for analysis It may say that the selected area is not uniform in one or more channels or is too small or contains clipping in one or more channels In such a case move the selection or resize or draw a new one to an area that does not contain any visible details and then click the same Auto Profile button again After the profile is built check the Quality indicator in the Device Noise Profile box A profile built using a uniform and featureless area will usually show a high value in this indicator If the profile quality is high for example higher than 75 then you can be sure that the noise profile is accurate In this case proceed
7. applied Y cr E Use checkboxes in the Sharpening section Usually you only want to sharpen the luminance channel Y 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius Select sharpening mode Check the Conservative checkbox to enable more accurate sharpening which produces much less halo effect around sharpened details Adjust sharpening amounts Use the High Mid and Low sliders in the Sharpening section Specify how much sharpening should be applied to each frequency component of the clip Use intra frame preview Use the preview when adjusting the sharpening settings After you have made changes to the sharpening settings do not forget to check the preview Use the preview on different parts of the frame to get a better feeling for the results of sharpening As soon as you are happy with the preview results regarding both noise reduction and sharpening proceed to save the filter settings into a preset below or directly to Apply intra frame filter settings page 15 5 7 5 Save intra frame filter settings into a preset optional To save the filter settings into a preset Click the Save filter settings as preset button in the Filter Settings box In the Save Filter Preset dialog box specify the name of the file to save the preset The filter presets are stored in nfp files Saved filter preset includes th
8. enabled hyperthreading etc If the computer includes two physical CPUs then the number of cores is correspondingly higher Ideally using all cores should provide the best overall performance In some cases however processing speed may be even higher if fewer cores are used especially on CPUs with hyperthreading For example using fewer than all 8 virtual cores in i7 is in some cases faster so you may want to test different values of this setting GPU In this box yon can specify which of the available computation capable GPU devices CUDA capable NVIDIA cards and or OpenCL capable AMD ATI cards should be used in addition to CPU or instead of CPU for video processing When you have one or more GPUs you can let Neat Video use them and specify how much of the GPU memory may be used by Neat Video for its processing If another application or another filter also uses the GPU at the same time you may want to reserve only a part of the GPU memory for Neat Video and leave the rest free for other purposes In any case you can try different values and see which setting gives the best results Benchmark Use the Benchmark button to measure the speed of Neat Video processing with specified filter settings and current performance settings specified in the CPU and GPU boxes 22 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius Optimize Use the Optimize button to o
9. in 1 Inthe Device Noise Profile tab Mikas click the Load Profile button 2 In the Load Device Noise Profile dialog navigate to the folder where the sample device noise profile has been unzipped and select the SampleProfile dnp file Neat Video will load the noise profile and will then be ready to filter the sample clip 3 Check intra frame preview Noise Filter Settings Switch to the Noise Filter Settings tab You will notice that the intra frame filter has already applied some filtration based on default filter settings and the preview shows a clearly visible difference However this is not the final result yet 4 Apply the changes Click Hee in the bottom of the plug in window The Neat Video plug in window will be closed and you will again see the Neat Video Configuration window 5 Adjust the temporal filter Adjust the Temporal filter radius setting from 1 to 2 or higher in the Neat Video Configuration window This will apply stronger temporal filtration to the clip 6 Apply the adjustments Click the OK button in the Neat Video Configuration window to save all the adjustments you have applied and to return to Edius 4 4 Stage IV Apply noise reduction to the clip Use the Render menu in Edius to render a part of the clip or the whole clip Edius will process the selected part of the clip and apply Neat Video noise reduction to it 6 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABS
10. plug in host Video data 1024x640 pixels 1280x720 pixels unlimited size Maximunmi size length o filtered video data 30 minutes unlimited length unlimited length Neat Video label added to filtered clip added not added Intra frame and temporal filter Noise Channel wise Y Cr Cb reduction Frequency wise High Mid Low Very low Smart Channel wise Y Cr Cb sharpening Frequency wise High Mid Low a Device noise Automatic and semi automatic profiling of F profiles any video capturing device Filter presets reusable filter settings 10 4 Contacts We really appreciate your opinion of Neat Video Please let us know what you think about the software Feel free to ask questions regarding Neat Video You can contact us using the following means E mails info neatvideo com for general inquiries about Neat Video edius neatvideo com for questions about use of Neat Video for Edius sales neatvideo com for questions about purchase of Neat Video software Forum Register in Neat Video community forum http www neatvideo com nvforum and participate in discussions on the use and development of Neat Video Such topics are covered in the forum as announcements of new and updated version of the software questions about use of Neat Video examples of using Neat Video with comments and suggestions feedback from the users suggestions of new features and improvements contacts
11. same 20 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius or very close to the device mode used to capture this clip In the current version of Neat Video you need to manually select a device noise profile that matches the video clip based on profile descriptions and file names Obviously it is preferable to build a new noise profile for each clip because such a profile would perfectly match the noise of that clip Nevertheless any noise profile can with some degree of accuracy be used to process other clips captured by the same device working in the same or similar mode This is less accurate than building a profile for each clip but saves time because building a new profile usually takes more time than re using a ready made one 7 Preferences There are several preferences that adjust the behavior of the Neat Video plug in Use the Tools gt P references menu item to open the Preferences dialog box 7 1 General preferences On opening plug in window Do not change viewer zoom and window size Use this option to not let Neat Video automatically modify the window size and zoom level when opening the Neat Video plug in The Neat Video window will remember its size from the last time and will not try to adjust its size and viewer zoom to show the whole frame The initial zoom level will be 100 Adjust viewer zoom to fit frame to window Use this option to
12. the processor s speed is the most critical clip or the whole clip Edius will process the selected On Intel i7 3 4 GHz Neat Video v3 processes part of the clip and apply Neat Video noise reduction 720x576 clip at the speed of 20 30 fps to it depending on filter settings Larger frame sizes are processed proportionally slower 16 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius 6 Device noise profiles A device noise profile or noise profile or simply profile describes the properties of visible noise produced by a video capturing device e g a video camera camcorder computer TV tuner film digitizer etc working in a certain mode Several noise profiles corresponding to different modes of a device constitute a profile set for this device Neat Video can use a profile from a profile set to process a video clip produced by a device working in the corresponding device mode You can easily build noise profiles for your video capturing device Learn how to build and use device noise profiles in Neat Video in the subsections 6 1 6 3 below 6 1 Building a profile for a device mode standard profiling procedure This subsection explains how to build a single noise profile for a video clip produced in a certain device mode Building a new noise profile generally consists of three stages Stage I Building a profile Stage II Documenting the pro
13. Neat Video noise reduction plug in for Edius To make video cleaner User guide Document version 3 6 September 5 2014 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius Table of contents 1 Introduction 1 1 Overview E2 REAUUITES Ss ccs out estes csesccescconcevanseassssuuesotesseenceuans snes cou vguedsnconnaconsonvensuuasivanteaned abcess A ANE N 1 32 s Requirements seid seccss severed ctu avetacen aera seeds R A R evened tetnet a ae genesis uedee E 3 2 Key CONCE DUS a a E deste A aaa aaea a aE aaa aar aaa Eaa L aa aaa aa aaar aaa 4 2 1 What it can do functionality of Neat Video eceecessesesceseeseceseeseeeccesecseeesececeaecseceaeeaeceeeeaeceeeeaeeeeeeae 4 2 2 When it works types of noise 3 Installing the LUAU uses cssncicence ce ecaiaadacarteatstecesupasvaiaiienstectesnuntevarenceseetiaiwacnnvactentiaets 4 Running Neat Video on a Sample video clip cctecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeneeeeeeneeeees 5 4 1 Stage I Add the sample clip to the project cece ssesseeseesceeceecseesesseeeesecsessessessesaeessessesseesetaseaeeeseeees 5 4 2 Stage II Add Neat Video 4 3 Stage M Confisure Neat Video cagsccs sac czseesceiscatesscagedasesscstaseccecasscnacegsdunuaben EE E A E E 6 4 4 Stage IV Apply noise reduction to the Clip eceesssesesseesceseeecsessecseeeceececseesessesseeeseaseeeseeseeaeeseaees 6 5 Filtratio
14. Neat Video detects analyzes and reduces noise The quality of noise reduction provided by Neat Video is higher than that of other methods because Neat Video incorporates the most advanced noise reduction algorithms in the industry and takes into account specific characteristics of particular video capturing devices video camera camcorder computer TV tuner etc making the filtration customized and more accurate In addition Neat Video can make video look sharper without any degradation of quality The combination of the sharpening and noise filter makes such an effect possible Neat Video plug in for Edius is available in three editions Demo Home Pro e Demo plug in is a free edition of the software with limited functionality e Home plug in supports up to 1280x720 frames e Pro plug in provides all features without frame size limitations 1 2 Features Noise Reduction and Smart Sharpening Advanced noise filter to reduce noise and grain in digital footage Temporal filtration to reduce more noise and better preserve true details Complete control over the noise filter to achieve the desired level of noise reduction Smart sharpening filter to make video look sharper without amplification of noise CUDA and OpenCL acceleration to speed up processing using computation capable GPUs Device Noise Profiles e Custom noise profiles to make noise reduction device specific and more accurate e Auto Profile to build noise profiles for cus
15. RGB video clip supported by Edius The 32 bit Neat Video plug in for Edius is compatible with the following versions of Edius e Edius Pro 6 5 or a newer update of v6 e Edius Neo 3 5 or a newer update of v3 The 64 bit Neat Video plug in for Edius is compatible with the following versions of Edius e Edius Pro 7 or a newer update of v7 The plug in may be compatible with newer versions of Edius as well 2 Key concepts 2 1 What it can do functionality of Neat Video Neat Video is a digital video filter Its main function is to reduce noise in digital video Neat Video can work with video clips produced by any video recording devices video cameras camcorders computer TV tuners film digitizers etc The software can be adjusted to a particular device by means of a device noise profile which describes the noise characteristics of the device working in a certain mode A device noise profile is built by analyzing those areas of a video frame that contain no visible or important details Usually Neat Video can find such featureless areas completely automatically In a difficult case you can assist it and select a featureless area manually Finding such areas is very easy for human eyes but may sometimes be a bit difficult for software By analyzing featureless areas in a frame Neat Video s noise analyzer builds a profile which describes the noise in these areas With this profile Neat Video can efficiently reduce noise in t
16. alyzing the noise profiling Analyzing noise profiling is the main part of building a noise profile This version of Neat Video offers three ways of conducting the noise analysis profiling automatic semi automatic and manual one Using automatic profiling is easier and therefore recommended for beginners In difficult cases for example if Neat Video cannot automatically find a uniform featureless area in the analyzed frame automatic profiling may not work or produce less than perfect results You can always override automatics and use semi automatic or manual profiling Make sure you use the Device Noise Profile tab 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 17 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius Case of automatic profiling To analyze the noise properties of the video clip Neat Video uses uniform areas of the frame Such areas should contain noise but no visible or important details With automatic profiling Neat Video tries to find one such area automatically and then uses this area to analyze noise Click the Auto Profile button Neat Video will automatically find and show the frame area selected for analysis and will analyze it automatically If the selected area shown in viewer indeed contains no visible details then the resulting noise profile will be accurate In difficult cases Neat Video may have trouble finding a uniform featureless area in the frame You will no
17. ame with large flat featureless areas the selected frame will be used for noise analysis in the next stages Video scan type Progressive 5 Interlaced Intra frame filter 5 3 Stage Ill Open Neat Video Configuration window Configure In the Information tab select the Neat Video line and click the Open Setup Dialog button or just double click the Neat Video line to open the Neat Video Configuration window Temporal filter Radius Threshold 5 4 Stage IV Specify the video scan ae ty p e p i Cancel Neat Video filter can work with video clips of both progressive and interlaced scan types Neat Video works with these two scan types in slightly different ways so it is necessary to let the filter know what kind of video is processed before configuring other filtration parameters Inthe Neat Video plug in configuration window select either Progressive or Interlaced depending on the scan type of the currently processed clip 5 5 Stage V Open Neat Video plug in window Inthe Neat Video Configuration window click the Configure button in the Intra frame filter box to open the main Neat Video plug in window The term frame will be used to refer to either one frame in progressive video or two fields in interlaced video 8 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius The Neat Video plug in window will a
18. cted noise is sensitive to variations of colors removed in the corresponding component Be careful setting strong filtration in the chrominance the noise reduction amounts too high especially in the luminance Y channel may lead to loss of fine details and unnaturally looking over smooth plastic like results Too low amounts may be not enough to sufficiently reduce the objectionable part of the noise You need to balance the noise reduction amounts most importantly the amount of noise reduction in the luminance channel Y to get the result that looks best to your eyes component does not noticeably distort video data but efficiently removes color noise Use intra frame preview Use the intra frame preview when adjusting the noise filter settings After you have made changes to the noise filter parameters do not forget to check the preview Use the preview on different parts of the frame to get a better feeling for the results of noise reduction Use the Quality indicator in the Device Noise Profile box to estimate the accuracy of the profile The indicator shows how accurate and complete is the noise analysis itself Higher values usually lead to more accurate noise reduction a We recommend disabling the sharpening filter when adjusting the noise filter To disable the sharpening filter set the Sharpening Amount to 0 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 11 User Guide
19. d Neat Video can treat them individually Neat Video provides separate luminance and chrominance settings in the noise filter see on the right Chrominance 100 Sharpening Amount In the Standard mode the noise reduction applied to one video component either luminance or chrominance component is controlled by the corresponding noise reduction amount setting A noise reduction amount tells the filter how much of the detected noise should be reduced For example if the noise reduction amount is set to 50 then all elements that are considered by the filter to be noise are reduced made weaker in half The noise reduction amount value of 100 tells the filter to remove the detected noise completely The default noise reduction amounts usually produce good filtration results provided the noise profile is accurate By default the noise filter removes 60 of detected noise in the luminance channel and 100 of noise in the chrominance channels Our experience shows that the default noise reduction amounts usually provide a good balance between noise removal and preserving natural not over processed appearance of filtered footage Adjust noise reduction amounts Use the Noise Reduction Amounts Luminance and Chrominance sliders You can vary the noise reduction amount for each frequency and channel component of the video clip The higher a certain As human vision is not very noise reduction amount the more of the dete
20. d use your Neat Video presets if you prefer 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 23 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius 8 Examples 8 1 Building a noise profile See the picture below for examples of areas that are good and bad for building device noise profiles Here the areas suitable for profiling are highlighted in green those that should not be used are highlighted in red Note that a frame area suitable for building a device noise profile should be at least 32x32 pixel large preferably more than 128x128 pixels Additional comments regarding these areas are available in the next page 24 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius These areas can be used to build device noise profiles as they contain no visible details GOOD because this area contains no important details GOOD no important details this area is from another frame The following areas should not be used to build device noise profiles because they contain details BAD because this area contains a detail corner junction of wall and ceiling UNACCEPTABLE because this area contains many details BAD because this area contains some details clouds this area is from another source 8 2 Filtration results Please see examples of noise reduction applied to video clips in the Neat Vid
21. ded as is and you its user assume the entire risk as to its quality and accuracy Distribution The Demo edition of Neat Video may be distributed unmodified provided any charge is to cover distribution costs only The Demo edition of Neat Video may be placed on magazine CDs as long as the Neat Video team is informed 10 6 Registration To become a registered user and to get a fully functional edition of Neat Video Home or Pro plug in for Edius you must purchase a license a single or multi user license This can be done through an online software shop Please find the detailed information in the purchase section of the Neat Video web page http www neatvideo com purchase html 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 29 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius After you have purchased a license you will receive an e mail from the Neat Video team with detailed download and registration instructions These instructions will help you download and become a registered user of the Neat Video software By becoming a registered user of Neat Video Home or Pro plug in for Edius you will Encourage the authors to further develop and improve the software Get access to all functions of Neat Video Home or Pro plug in for Edius see the Detailed feature map page 28 Be able to use Neat Video Home or Pro plug in for Edius for commercial and other purposes Get free updates of the software mi
22. duction If the noise filtration looks too strong try to decrease the noise reduction amounts for appropriate channel or frequency components If the noise filtration is not sufficient then increase the amounts Adjust noise levels only when necessary Usually it is not necessary to change the noise levels if the noise profile is accurate You only need to adjust the noise levels if you see that some noise elements are not reduced even if you set the noise reduction amounts to 100 Such residual noise elements are usually caused by an inaccurate noise profile providing inaccurate noise level estimations to the noise filter This may be compensated by adjusting increasing the noise levels in the filter settings Use the Noise Levels High Mid Low Y Cr Cb sliders The noise filter has access to three frequency components and three channel components of the video data Corresponding sliders adjust the estimated noise levels for each of these components The higher a certain noise level the more elements in the corresponding component are considered noise Be careful setting a noise level setting too high can lead to removal of important details Setting a noise level setting too low can lead to incomplete filtration residual noise and compression artifacts can stay in the filtered clip As a rule if the device noise profile has been built properly it is not necessary to increase the noise levels by more than 50 If the clip conta
23. e is not recommended Instead two different profiles should be built and used to filter these two clips 6 1 3 Stage Ill Saving the noise profile Use Gi the Save Device Noise Profile As button in the Device Noise Profile box In the Save Device Noise P rofile As dialog box specify a meaningful file name and save the profile to the hard drive Device noise profile are saved in dnp files If you are going to re use the device noise profile select a good file name explaining the device name and mode so that you could easily recognize this profile by its file name later on Alternatively you can use special folder structuring to keep many device noise profiles arranged according to their device modes Saved noise profile includes a complete noise analysis Therefore by re opening the noise profile with another clip you can reproduce exactly the same conditions for noise reduction later on 6 2 Using noise profiles When you have a set of profiles for your video capturing device you can directly use these profiles to process clips in Neat Video Usually the set contains only one profile that is most suitable to process a given clip Therefore it is very important to select the right profile which would provide good match between profile and clip Profiles in a profile set usually have been built for different device modes and to make a perfect match between a profile and a clip the device mode of this profile should be the
24. e noise filter and sharpening settings By re opening a preset you can reproduce exactly the same intra frame filter settings later on Together a device noise profile and a filter preset can be used to accurately reproduce the filtration results To open a previously saved filter preset Click the Load filter preset button in the Filter Settings box In the Load Filter Preset dialog box specify the name of the filter preset to be opened or Click A the drop down button in the Filter Settings box to open the popup menu with all available presets and then select one of them There are several pre written filter presets in your Documents folder Documents Neat Video for Edius Presets Please explore these presets to see what combinations and values of the noise and sharpening filter s settings can be used to solve typical tasks names of the presets explain these tasks 5 7 6 Apply intra frame filter settings After you have prepared a noise profile and adjusted the intra frame filter settings you need to apply these changes To apply intra frame filter settings Click the Apply button in the bottom of the plug in window 1 You can check and adjust the location of that folder using the menu Tools gt P references gt Folders gt P reset folder 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 15 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius The Neat Video plug in window wil
25. eat Video plug in window Q The filtration process is not very fast is this normal A This is normal because the filtration algorithm is quite complex We work on further optimization to provide better performance 26 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius Q A How to filter only the color noise not the brightness noise Set the value of the luminance Y channel noise reduction amount to 0 This will disable filtration in the luminance brightness channel What is YCrCb YCrCb is the name of a family of color spaces widely used in digital imaging television video etc In YCrCb Y corresponds to the luminance channel Cr to the Cr chrominance channel covering the red to blue green color range Cb to the Cb chrominance channel covering the blue to yellow color range Because this space enables easy separation of the luminance and chrominance information it is very suitable to conduct noise reduction Is processing via Neat Video best done before or after any other processing i e tonal color correction Such operations as tonal color correction are quite conservative from the standpoint of noise 1 e they do not significantly change the noise characteristics of the video clip Therefore filtering before or after makes little difference as long as the noise profile is built and applied at the same stage of your work
26. eive some crystal like artifacts in the filtered frame A The crystal like artifacts usually these are the residual compression artifacts or residual noise look like thin lines in the filtered frame They can be easily eliminated by increasing the high frequency noise level in the filter settings Note presence of many residual artifacts is usually a consequence of using a poorly built inaccurate noise profile or a profile built for another device and or device mode Q Filtered frame looks plastic Why A The reason is that too much filtration was applied Let Neat Video keep some noise to have natural looking results Adjust the noise reduction amounts for example reduce the noise reduction amount in the luminance Y channel to 50 70 Also make sure the device noise profile does match the video clip processed Using an incorrectly chosen or poorly built profile can either produce plastic looking results or leave residual artifacts see the previous question Q What is frequency A The term spatial frequency is used in Neat Video to denote elements of a video clip both important details and noise grain of certain size High frequency corresponds to elements of smallest size Medium mid frequency corresponds to elements of medium size Low frequency corresponds to elements of ERTS relatively large size bes cee Mi res For reference see the noise samples of different frequencies in the Noise Filter Settings tow bE tab of the N
27. eo web page http www neatvideo com examples html 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 25 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius 9 Questions and answers 9 1 General questions Q A gt O FH FC What is the difference between Neat Video Demo Home and Pro plug in The Demo plug in has some functional limitations For example it can only process short video clips with limited frame size Please see the Detailed feature map page 28 for more details Should I uninstall Demo plug in prior to installing the Home Pro plug in This is not necessary You can install the Home Pro plug in over the Demo plug in Should I uninstall the older version of Neat Video prior to installing a newer one This is not necessary You can install a newer version of Neat Video over the older one I think I have found a bug How can I submit a bug report Please use the online bug report form http www neatvideo com brf html Please fill it out to let us know all the details necessary to reproduce the problem See more information about bugs in the Known issues section in Neat Video webpage http www neatvideo com bugs html and about bug fixes in the WhatsNew txt file supplied with the software also see the history section on the web page for the most up to date information http www neatvideo com history html 9 2 Filtration related questions Q Why do I rec
28. file Stage II Saving the profile 6 1 1 Stage I Building a profile To build a noise profile for a video clip you must take these steps Step 1 Selecting a frame suitable for noise analysis Step 2 Analyzing the noise Step 1 Selecting a frame suitable for noise analysis To build an accurate noise profile Neat Video has to analyze a specific frame from the video clip This frame should include uniform featureless areas containing only noise without real details A uniform area with minor variation in all color channels may be overcast sky clear sky without clouds and birds or any other part of a suitable frame where there are no visually perceptible details except the noise Neat Video needs to analyze a uniform featureless area of around 128x128 pixels the minimum size is 32x32 pixels In the video clip find a frame that contains flat featureless areas and use this frame to build a noise profile 1 In Edius timeline find and select a frame with large flat featureless areas selected frame will be used for noise analysis in the next steps 2 In the Information tab select the Neat Video line and click the Open Setup Dialog button or just double click the Neat Video line to open the Neat Video Configuration window 3 In Neat Video Configuration window click the Configure button in the Intra frame filter box The Neat Video plug in window will appear and will show the currently selected frame Step 2 An
29. file folder 10 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius 5 7 3 Adjust filter settings in Standard mode There are two main filters in Neat Video noise reduction filter and sharpening filter These two filters can be used together and each of them can be used independently You can enable disable and adjust these filters using the guidelines in the subsections below Adjusting noise filter settings in Standard mode When you work with a color clip two components of the video Fiter Settings information can be distinguished the luminance and chrominance M4 z component This distinction is very useful from the standpoint of EAZ noise reduction because it allows processing luminance and Noise Reduction Amounts chrominance information separately by the noise filter Luminance Some color clips are represented in color spaces that enable direct separation of the luminance and chrominance components for example the YCrCb YUV YPrPb color spaces Other clips including RGB data that Neat Video takes as input have to be converted to another representation to enable separation of the luminance and chrominance components Neat Video applies an internal color space conversion to achieve that by default Neat Video converts an RGB input frame to the YCrCb working color space Once luminance and chrominance components of the video information are separate
30. flow For example don t use a device noise profile built with an unprocessed the color correction is not yet applied clip to filter the same clip with the color correction applied On the other hand certain effects like sharpening or resampling applied to a noisy video clip may considerably change its noise properties In this sense it is generally better to use Neat Video filtration before applying such effects 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 7 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius 10 Information 10 1 Issues and bugs Please report any bugs or issues you encounter while working with Neat Video Use the online bug report form http www neatvideo com brf html Your feedback will greatly help us to improve the software and provide you with newer and better versions of Neat Video 10 2 Plans The current version of Neat Video is the result of our ongoing research on noise filtration We continue to work on the core noise reduction algorithms to improve the quality and speed of noise reduction Please let us know if you have ideas that can make Neat Video better Participate in the discussion on the Neat Video message board express your opinion make suggestions and ask questions 10 3 Detailed feature map Neat Video F catures Demo plug in Home plug in Pro plug in File formats supported all formats supported by
31. h sensitivity modes of a digital video camera digital noise or with footage captured on highly sensitive film film grain However traces of dust particles on a sensor or film do not satisfy the uniformity condition and therefore are not efficiently removed by Neat Video Another possible source of noise is video compression The compression noise is approximately uniform when high compression quality is used Low compression quality makes noise non uniform Therefore we recommend using the highest quality levels whenever possible Try to 4 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius avoid visible compression artifacts in video data beginning from the early stages of your post processing workflow e Noise should be concentrated in high and medium spatial frequencies This condition is usually met by most video clips produced by modern digital video capturing devices 3 Installing the plug in When you install Neat Video using its standard installer the installer should automatically make the plug in available to Edius In case the plug in has not become available in list of video filters Effect gt VideoF ilters gt Neat Video after restart of Edius please contact Neat Video support for assistance 4 Running Neat Video on a sample video clip There is a test kit prepared to help you start using Neat Video You can download the test kit from the Nea
32. he frame and in the whole video clip The noise filter processes video data in several spatial frequency ranges This makes possible reducing noise in one frequency range even if details are present in other ranges The filter can also selectively process any of the color channels Besides the intra frame filtration Neat Video also applies temporal inter frame filtration to video data Neat Video uses several consecutive frames to better reduce noise and preserve more true details in each frame This improves the overall quality of noise reduction In addition to the noise filter there is the smart sharpening filter which only sharpens important details without increasing the level of noise This filter also uses the noise profile to tell noise from details so applying the noise and sharpening filters together saves time and produces better overall results 2 2 When it works types of noise Neat Video is designed to reduce noise in video footage produced by video cameras camcorders computer TV tuners film digitizers and can also be used to process video from other sources To be efficiently processed a video clip should satisfy the following requirements e Noise must be uniformly distributed throughout each frame i e there should be no strong surges of noise intensity in some areas of one frame or significant changes of noise characteristics across the frame Neat Video works fine for example with video clips produced in hig
33. he noise profile 6 1 2 Stage Il Documenting the noise profile At this point the noise analysis is done and all important noise Device Noise Profile characteristics are gathered in the profile However you may still p W3 want to manually document the profile by describing the video capturing device and its mode SampleProfile Use the Device Name and Mode fields in the Device Noise Profile box to specify the model of the video capturing device and describe the device mode used to capture the profiled clip It is highly recommended to specify these details to keep record of devices device modes and corresponding device noise profiles that you use Quality The noise characteristics of any two devices can be extremely different Even a single device in different modes can produce significantly different noise Therefore it is always better to use separate noise profiles for different 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 19 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius devices and device modes to avoid inaccurate filtration and artifacts Commenting on the device name and device mode parameters will help you re use a noise profile later on when you will look for a suitable profile to process a video clip There may be many device parameters but not all of them influence noise and those that do differ by the strength of their influence It makes sense to document those parameters o
34. ins strong surges of noise in the high frequency range it is recommended to increase the high frequency noise level up to 20 to 40 If the clip contains strong color noise it is recommended to increase the Cr and Cb noise levels to 30 In some cases it may be useful to increase these noise levels up to 100 If adjusting noise levels still does not help and some noise elements remain in the filtered clip probably the device noise profile is not good at all Return to Stage IV page 9 and additionally fine tune the device noise profile or simply rebuild the profile from scratch Adjusting sharpening settings in Advanced mode optional The sharpening filter is designed to increase sharpness of the clip without increasing the noise strength The default values of the sharpening settings should produce satisfactory results when sharpening is enabled for any of the channel components but you are encouraged to vary the settings to find values that produce the desired level of sharpness Zero sharpening amounts will not sharpen the clip at all The non zero sharpening amounts will apply sharpening of the specified strength Use sharpening controls for different frequency components to sharpen fine medium or large details As with any other sharpening method you need to balance the amounts to avoid over sharpening Use the intra frame preview when adjusting the sharpening settings Select color channels where sharpening should be Sharpening
35. ip in Edius 5 1 Stage I Add Neat Video filter To add the Neat Video noise reduction filter to a clip 1 Go to Effect tab in Edius then navigate to Effect gt VideoFilters gt Neat Video 2 Drag and drop Neat Video from there to the clip in the timeline Edius will add Neat Video to the clip you will see a new line Neat i File Name C SampleClip mp4 Video added in the Information tab Clip Name SampleCiip Source In 00 00 Source Out Si D 5 Important If you also apply other filters to the same clip make ee 00 00 00 00 z sure Neat Video goes first above other filters to make Edius serve REMEE q the correct data to Neat Video Manually change the order in the list of filters in the Information tab if necessary z Please note that Neat Video must also be above Layouter as shown in the image on the right Information 5 2 Stage Il Select a frame for noise analysis Neat Video filter uses a frame or two fields from the video clip to analyze noise and build a noise profile necessary to reduce noise in the clip This frame should include flat featureless areas that contain no visible details but do contain noise To build a noise profile you need to manually find such a frame in the clip using the timeline If there are many frames that contain flat featureless areas then select one with larger and most noisy flat featureless areas without visible details Use the timeline controls to select a fr
36. l be closed and the plug in will automatically save the device noise profile and filter preset in the current Edius project If you later re open the Neat Video plug in window the plug in will automatically pick up saved noise profile and noise filter settings 5 8 Stage VIII Adjust temporal filter settings Besides the intra frame filtration that you configured in the previous section Neat Video also applies temporal inter frame filtration to the video clip Temporal filtration allows Neat Video to improve the overall quality of noise reduction Neat Video uses several consecutive frames to better reduce noise and preserve more true details in each frame You can adjust the temporal filter settings using the controls available in the Temporal filter box in the Neat Video Configuration window To adjust temporal filter settings Adjust Temporal filter radius The Temporal filter radius setting determines the number of consecutive frames used for temporal filtration Higher values of this setting lead to more aggressive and slower temporal filtration Lower values lead to less aggressive and faster filtration based on a small number of consecutive frames Zero value disables temporal filtration completely The default value is 1 which means three consecutive frames the current one one before and one after the current one are used for temporal filtration Use the Radius control in the Temporal filter box in the Neat Video Configura
37. le Show warnings about selected frame areas Enable this option to let Neat Video display warnings about selected frame areas during profiling For example Neat Video may warn you about clipping or non uniformity detected in the selected area thus helping you select a better area for profiling 7 3 Performance preferences The first group of settings in this tab selects the computing devices to be used for image processing This group of settings is optional it is shown only if at least one supported GPU graphic processing unit is available along with the regular CPU central processing unit or processor This group includes the following items Use CPU only This option makes Neat Video perform all video processing using CPU only Use GPU only This option makes Neat Video perform all video processing using GPU only Use CPU and GPU If you select this option then Neat Video will process video data using both CPU and GPU Depending on individual performance of each computing device CPU and GPU each of the above options may be the most efficient You can try different settings and measure the resulting speed using the Benchmark tool below CPU Number of used cores This option adjusts the number of CPU cores used by Neat Video for processing The number of used cores can go up to the total number of cores in all CPUs in your computer like 2 cores in Core Duo 4 cores in Core Quad 8 cores in a desktop version of i7 with
38. make the Neat Video viewer automatically adjust the zoom level to fit the whole frame into the viewer window without modifying the window size The Neat Video window will remember its size from the last time Adjust window size to accommodate whole frame Use this option to make the Neat Video windows automatically adjust its window size and if necessary the viewer zoom level as well to accommodate the whole frame when opening the Neat Video plug in Color theme Normal brightness Neat Video will display its interface elements using the current color theme of the OS Reduced brightness Select this option to switch Neat Video to a custom color theme with reduced brightness Show hints over interface controls This option switches on off the hints explaining the purpose of Neat Video controls like a button slider etc The hints are displayed when the mouse pointer is placed over controls in the Neat Video interface 7 2 Profiling preferences Save noise samples in profiles Enable this option to make Neat Video save a noise sample from the analyzed frame area into device noise profile dnp file This will increase the size of the dnp file but will also improve the 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 21 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius compatibility with the future versions of the software Neat Video will be able to re build the profile using the saved noise samp
39. ments that are stronger than 9 83 units are preserved Thus with a noise level noise reduction amount pair of settings you can adjust what should be considered noise in a component of the video data and how much of this noise should be reduced You have access to six such pairs three for channel components Y Cr Cb and three for spatial frequency components High Mid Low of the video data Because the noise level controls are relative to the device noise profile the default filter settings usually produce good results when the noise profile is accurate The noise level defaults are 0 which means the noise levels are completely determined by the noise profile When you adjust the level controls the noise level estimations are raised or lowered accordingly A noise level control can be in the range from 100 which means no elements are considered noise and therefore no noise reduction is applied in the corresponding component to 150 which means noise reduction is applied to the elements that are weaker than 250 of the profile s noise level Noise reduction amounts can be in the range from 0 none of the detected noise is removed to 100 all the detected noise is removed By default the noise filter removes 100 of detected noise in all but the luminance Y channel where only 60 of detected noise is removed Decreasing the noise reduction amounts can have a positive effect if the video clip contains some natural n
40. n process details ec siaiecccat i cineesdadsa ca sdedaieaicsnacedceussdadearediuadddveledunesndaceiedwens Sali Staged Add Neat Video filters esena totsnces e tt oi A cata NRA E staan E A R 5 2 Stage II Select a frame for noise analysis 5 3 Stage III Open Neat Video Configuration Window cccsssseeseeeesesseeseesceeceeeseesesaeesceecsesaeeaeeaeeaeeeseeees 8 5 4 Stage IV Specify the video scan type oo r e aaae ioa a e i EaR eaa aeae aa EEE Eara 5 5 Stage V Open Neat Video plug in window 9 62 Stage VI Preparea d vice Noise profiles a s e A NE R a EEEE ES 5 7 Stage VII Adjust intra frame filter settings 0 0 ceeeceecneesesseeseeecsecsecsecseeacescecsesseesesaeeaeeeseaseaeees 5 8 Stage VIII Adjust temporal filter settings a 5 9 Stage IX Adjust adaptive filtration aie ear A E EA aE a eis 5 10 Stage Xs Render the clips 7560s e aE E E E R sa A R see E ENEE NOA A EE EAEE NEE 6 Device noise profiles wisicsiccsslitseteivicretercdatencnasiat vita satin eaeavenennnntdinnednenennecaleens 6 l Building a profile for a device mode standard profiling procedure s sssssssssererererersrsrerrsrrrererersrsre 17 6 27 Using NOISE Profiles ss sc 4s drs onra ees decent odes sceseo RE A EE fees loath AA oluatetes aaa 20 Fe NIPRETOPEN COS EE 7 1 General preferences TD Profiline preferences ccviccic csscsiewscd atavs vangessersccsavcszvetosnsstceesesdevaedesds scevssustdibhasesuesgath chethedaadedneeiadeteass dues 21 Tos
41. nly that appreciably affect noise In the tables below those parameters are described that usually appreciably affect noise characteristics from the most to the less important ones for video capturing devices Video capturing device parameters in the order of decreasing importance Sensitivity of Film type and sensitivity for More sensitive light capturing devices media light capturing digitized analog video usually produce stronger noise device effective sensor sensitivity for digital video etc Compression Video compression method Stronger compression typically produces more of video clip mode used artifacts and destroys details weaker compression preserves more details It is preferable to use the lowest amount of compression possible for the best results Resolution 1920x1080 1366x768 Video clip in different resolutions usually have frame size 1280x720 720x576 very different noise characteristics 512x384 352x288 etc If two video clips were produced by the same device in the same or similar conditions most of the above device mode parameters are the same then the noise of these two clips should be very similar If you have built a device noise profile using one of these clips you can use this profile to filter both clips with good results If however the conditions were different then the noise in two clips could be significantly different In this case cross use of the noise profil
42. nor modifications with the same major version number for example updates from the version v3 0 to any v3 x Enjoy reduced upgrade prices for new major future modifications of Neat Video Home or Pro plug in for Edius or will get a free upgrade Receive the primary attention of Neat Video support group Receive the primary attention of Neat Video development group tell us what you want to see in the next version By becoming a registered user you are helping us to further develop and improve the software Become a registered user and we will make Neat Video better for YOU 10 7 Acknowledgments Thank you to all the users who contribute by proposing improvements and new features Thanks to all the people who help us to find bugs in Neat Video Thank you to all the users who stimulate the development of Neat Video by their word and deed Neat Video team ABSoft 30 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius 11 Index color space YCrCb 27 chrominance 27 luminance 27 compatibility 4 device noise profile 9 building 17 automatic 18 for a certain mode 17 examples 24 features 3 28 filter preset 15 16 frequency 26 high 14 26 low 13 26 mid medium 26 range 4 14 25 license agreement 29 noise color 14 27 filter 4 12 level 12 13 reduction 13 amount 11 12 13 registration 29 shar
43. o has two sets of filter controls that are available in the Standard mode and Advanced mode you can select the mode using the Tools gt Standard mode and Advanced Mode menu items The Standard mode described above provides a simple control set recommended for beginners who just start using Neat Video The Advanced mode provides the most complete control set with maximum manual control over noise profiling and filtration processes The Advanced mode is recommended for power users If you want to use the Advanced mode then please read this sub section As compared with the Standard mode the Advanced mode offers a more extensive set of filter controls There are also two filters noise reduction filter and sharpening filter but these have more settings now Please follow the guidelines below to adjust both filters Filter Settings Adjusting filter settings in Advanced mode FE In Advanced mode the noise filter has separate settings for all Default spatial frequency and channel components of the video data Noise Levels There are also pairs of noise level noise reduction amount controls for each of these video components The meaning of each noise level noise reduction amount pair is the following e a noise level control adjusts the threshold that determines which elements are considered noise in the corresponding video component and which elements are considered details e a noise reduction amount control determines how much red
44. oft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius Then check the results in Edius viewer and evaluate the quality of noise reduction applied to the clip You will see that the noise in the resulting clip is significantly reduced while details are preserved If you render out to an output file you can also find that the resulting noise free clip can be compressed better the file size is smaller than the original noisy clip The sample noise profile supplied with the test kit is suitable only for this clip and similar clips produced by the same capturing device working in the same or similar mode Neat Video can apply similar noise reduction to video clips captured or acquired by any other devices working in any mode To be able to do that Neat Video needs device noise profiles that describe the noise characteristics of those devices Using Neat Video s Auto Profile function you can easily build these profiles yourself Auto Profile can automatically build a profile once you give it a suitable frame from a clip The next sections Filtration process details page 8 and Device noise profiles page 17 contain detailed descriptions of the filtration and profiling processes 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 7 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius 5 Filtration process details This section explains how to apply the Neat Video noise reduction to a video cl
45. oise For example when you filter a clip including asphalt sand or anything else that contains fine natural noise like features it may be helpful to reduce amounts down to 30 50 Our experience shows that these values generally provide a good balance between preserving video details and noise removal Adjust noise reduction amounts As human vision is not very sensitive to variations of colors You can vary the noise reduction amount for each frequency strong filtration in the and channel component of the video data The higher a certain noise reduction amount the more of the detected noise is removed in the corresponding component Be careful setting the noise reduction amounts too high especially in the luminance Y channel may lead to loss of fine details and unnaturally looking over smooth plastic like results Too low amounts may be not enough to sufficiently reduce the objectionable part of the noise You need to balance the noise reduction amounts most importantly the amount of noise reduction in the luminance channel Y to get the result that looks best to your eyes Use the Noise Reduction Amounts High Mid Low Y Cr Cb sliders chrominance channels Cr Cb does not noticeably distort video data but efficiently reduces color noise Adjust additional filter settings optional Ifthe clip contains strong low frequency noise then you may want to enable the Very low freq option in the Noise Filter Se
46. pen a specialized dialog designed to measure image processing speeds achieved with different combinations of the CPU and GPU settings It allows to automatically benchmark all possible combinations of settings and to identify the best combination This is the easiest way to optimize the performance of Neat Video for specific CPU and GPU hardware 7 4 Folders preferences Profile folder Select the folder where Neat Video will store and look for device noise profiles This should be the topmost folder of all the sub folders with device noise profiles Neat Video will display all profiles stored in all subfolders of the specified folder in the popup menu in the Device noise profile panel of the plug in window to help you quickly load those profiles By default the Profile folder is located in your Documents folder Documents Neat Video for Edius Profiles You can select another location to store and use your Neat Video profiles if you prefer Preset folder Select the folder where Neat Video will look for filter presets This should be the topmost folder of all the sub folders with filter presets Neat Video will display all presets stored in all subfolders of the specified folder in the popup menu in the Filter Settings panel of the plug in window to help you quickly load those presets By default the Preset folder is located in your Documents folder Documents Neat Video for Edius Presets You can select another location to store an
47. pening filter 12 14 system requirements 3 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 3
48. ppear and show the earlier chosen frame for progressive video or two fields upper and lower one on top of another for interlaced video This frame or fields will be used to build a noise profile necessary to filter the whole clip To scroll and pan the frame e press the spacebar and drag the frame with the left mouse button To change zoom level e use the mouse wheel when mouse is over the viewer e use the zoom control under the viewer e use the Ctrl Plus Ctrl Minus Ctrl 0 Ctrl Alt 0 keyboard shortcuts 5 6 Stage VI Prepare a device noise profile To filter the noise in the clip Neat Video needs to know the characteristics of noise produced by the input device video camera TV tuner etc that the video comes from The noise characteristics of a device working in a certain mode constitute a device noise profile There are two ways to get a device noise profile for the clip e To build a new profile using the selected frame from the clip e To select a suitable profile from a pre built set of profiles The first option is often the easiest one provided the selected frame contains sufficiently large uniform featureless areas that include noise and no visible or important details Neat Video can try to automatically find such areas in the frame and analyze noise in there to build a noise profile When the selected frame contains featureless areas suitable for analysis this way of preparing a noise profile is the most accurate
49. ssion from the Neat Video team ABSoft Decompile disassemble reverse engineer modify clone and emulate any version of the Neat Video software or any portion of it including the license data Use the Home and Pro edition of Neat Video if you are not registered user Term and termination If you are a registered user of the Home or Pro edition of Neat Video and you have purchased a license for specific major version of Neat Video then you may use this major version including all minor updates of the same major version and edition of the software without time limitations provided you observe this license agreement A license for a certain major version of Neat Video may be extended to a higher major version By decision of the Neat Video team ABSoft this extension may be automatic and free or may involve an upgrade fee You may terminate this license agreement at any time by returning or destroying all copies of Neat Video in your possession and notifying the Neat Video team This license agreement will terminate immediately if you infringe upon the Neat Video team ABSoft s copyrights or breach this agreement Copyright infringement or breaching this agreement may also result in criminal or civil prosecution Disclaimer of warranty The authors make no warranty or representation either express or implied with respect to this software its quality accuracy merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose This software is provi
50. t Video web page http www neatvideo com files3 testkit zip 6 MB Having downloaded unzip it to a new folder on the hard disk The test kit includes a sample video clip the SampleClip mpg file This is a typical video clip captured by a digital video camera in high gain mode Technical information about the sample clip is available in the SampleClipInfo txt file Please start Edius and go through the stages below to make Neat Video clean the clip 4 1 Stage I Add the sample clip to the project 1 Configure a new project in Edius Create a new project in Edius and select the HD 1280x720 25p template Edius will then open the new project with the timeline Player window and other windows EDIUS O t Hl xX EE a FOLDER effect leoFilters E im Effect Stereoscopic Adjuster 2 Add the sample clip file to the project So i ol eres 4 3 Transitions Use the File Add Clip menu in Edius to import the 5 AudoQossfades fy TitleMixers i SampleClip mpg file 3 Keyes Strobe Freeze You will see that there is strong noise in the sample clip see it in the Player window The task of Neat Video is to reduce this noise Tunnel Vision 3 Add the sample clip to the sequence Drag and drop the sample clip from Player window to the fa Sequence 1 in the timeline Video Noise 4 2 Stage Il Add Neat Video 1 Go to Effect tab then navigate to Effect gt VideoF ilters gt Neat Video
51. the frame processed by the noise and sharpening filters If you change any filter settings then the preview is automatically updated provided the Preview button in the toolbar is depressed You can zoom in and out drag scroll pan the frame in the Preview box to see how the filtration affects different parts of the frame If you manually select an area in the frame then only the selected area will be processed for preview When the preview is ready the preview area shows Filtered click inside the preview area to temporarily switch back to the original for comparison 5 7 2 Standard and Advanced modes Neat Video has two sets of filter controls they are available in the Standard mode and Advanced mode you can select the mode using the Tools gt Standard mode and Advanced Mode menu items The Standard mode provides a simple control set recommended for beginners who just start using Neat Video The Advanced mode provides the most complete control set with maximum manual control over noise profiling and filtration processes The Advanced mode is recommended for power users Adjusting filter settings is described below separately for the Standard and Advanced mode We recommend to start with the part about the Standard mode and then proceed to the part about the Advanced mode if you are going to use the complete control set i You can check and adjust the location of that folder using the menu Tools gt P references gt Folders gt P ro
52. tice that the selected area for example will contain some important details In such a case use the semi automatic profiling instead see below If you see that the area automatically selected for analysis is indeed uniform and featureless then the resulting noise analysis is accurate To be sure check the Quality indicator in the Device Noise Profile box A profile built using a uniform and featureless area will usually show a high value in this indicator If the profile quality is high for example higher than 75 then you can be sure that the noise profile is accurate In this case proceed to Stage II Documenting the noise profile page 19 If the quality is not high try to use the semi automatic profiling instead see below Case of semi automatic profiling 1 Find a uniform featureless area Manually find and select an area that contains no visible details The area should be at least 32x32 pixels large That is the minimum size the recommended size is 128x128 pixels or more you can resize the selection frame Scroll pan zoom the frame to find a uniform area Set the selection to the found uniform area If you cannot find a uniform area in the frame try to use another frame from the same video clip 2 Analyze selected area Click the Auto Profile button Neat Video will automatically analyze the selected area and build a noise profile At this point the profile is ready Proceed to Stage Il Documen
53. ting the noise profile Case of manual profiling Advanced mode only 1 Find a uniform featureless area Manually find and select an area that contains no visible details The area should be at least 32x32 pixels large This is the minimum size the recommended size is 128x128 pixels or more you can resize the selection frame 2 Analyze selected area Click the Auto Profile button Neat Video will automatically analyze the selected area and build a noise profile 1 5 i You can see some examples of uniform featureless areas in the Examples section page 24 18 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius 3 Additionally manually fine tune the profile Fine tuning uses additional flat featureless frame areas to make the noise profile more accurate You need to manually select and analyze several such areas one after another 1 Find and select a uniform featureless area Scroll pan zoom the frame in the viewer in the Device Noise Profile tab to find a new uniform area The size of an area may be from 16x16 to 256x256 pixels Using larger areas makes fine tuning more accurate The selection edges will change their thickness according to the selection size 2 Analyze selected area with Manual Fine Tune Click GJ the Manual Fine Tune button or select the P rofile Fine Tune Using Selected Area menu item The analysis resul
54. tion window Adjust Temporal filter threshold The Temporal filter threshold setting determines how sensitive the filter is to changes for example motion of objects in consecutive frames Higher values of this setting lead to more aggressive filtration with less attention to temporal changes lower motion sensitivity Lower values lead to less aggressive filtration with more attention to temporal changes and better preservation of moving details higher motion sensitivity Use the Threshold control in the Temporal filter box in the Neat Video Configuration window Video scan type 5 9 Stage IX Adjust adaptive e RES fi ltratio n Intra frame filter Enable or disable adaptive filtration The noise properties of the video data may vary in different parts of the clip Neat Video can automatically adjust its filters to the changing noise when this option is enabled If the noise is the same in different parts of the clip then this option can be left disabled Configure Temporal filter Threshold Enable the Adaptive Filtration option to let Neat Video automatically adjust its filters to the changing noise in the clip Cancel Click the OK button to close the Neat Video Configuration window after you have finished all adjustments 5 10 Stage X Render the clip To apply Neat Video noise reduction Neat Video is a processor intensive filter and Use the Render menu in Edius to render a part of the
55. to Stage VII Adjust intra frame filter settings page 10 If the quality is not high try to select another uniform and featureless area and use Auto Profile again That may not help still especially if the selected frame contains only a few small featureless areas In this case consider building a noise profile using another frame from the same clip close the Neat Video plug in and Neat Video Configuration windows and return to Stage II Select a frame for noise analysis page 8 You can also try to build a profile in manual mode However this will anyway require some featureless areas to be available for analysis You can find more details on automatic and manual profiling in the Device noise profiles section page 17 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 9 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius To select a noise profile from a pre built profile set Click the Load Profile button Then select a profile in the Open Device Noise Profile dialog or Click A the drop down button in the Device Noise Profile box to open the popup menu with all available profiles and then select one of the available profiles Please note that you have either to build your own profiles or download some pre built profiles and place them to the Neat Video s Profile folder to make this drop down button and popup menu truly work By default the P rofile folder is located in your Documents folder
56. tom video capturing devices Some features are only available in the Home or Pro plug in Detailed feature map page 28 explains the differences between Neat Video Demo Home and Pro plug ins in details 1 3 Requirements Recommended system configuration is e Intel i7 i5 Xeon single or multi processor e Windows 8 7 Vista XP 32 bit or 64 bit Optional CUDA acceleration requires e CUDA capable NVIDIA video card e Recent video driver supporting CUDA v4 2 or newer you can download the latest versions of the video drivers from http www nvidia com Optional OpenCL acceleration requires e Supported video card 7 ATI Radeon HD 57xx 58xx 59xx AMD Radeon HD 67xx 68xx 69xx AMD Radeon HD 77xx 78xx 79xx 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 Juniper Cypress Barts Cayman Cape Verde Pitcairn Tahiti Bonaire Hainan Hawaii e Latest version of AMD Catalyst Driver System requirements for practical use of Neat Video depend on frame size and length of video 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 3 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius Processing larger frames and longer clips takes proportionally more time than and shorter ones The processing speed is determined primarily by the processor power and memory speed The Neat Video plug in can process any
57. ts will be shown in the noise profile equalizer the graphs of the equalizer will change some of the values see the picture on the right You can switch from one channel to another in the equalizer to better see a specific channel s graph or select to show them all together The goal of manual fine tuning is to fill the equalizer with measured values shown as graph color knots in all points of the graphs The previous steps specifically the Auto P rofile function may have already filled some of the values Manual fine tuning can further improve the analysis by filling out the still missing or interpolated values shown as yellow knots and or making some of already measured values more precise 3 Repeat 1 2 above with other uniform areas of different brightness To make a device noise profile more accurate fine tune it using several uniform areas of the frame Select areas of different brightness for best results Try to choose and analyze uniform areas to cover all or most elements of the equalizer in all its color channels The more elements of profile are analyzed the higher is the quality of the profile 4 Complete fine tuning using Auto Complete Click kd the Auto Complete button or select the Profile Auto Complete menu item to automatically complete the fine tuning by adjusting the unmeasured values using interpolation based on the measured data At this point the profile is ready Proceed to Stage II Documenting t
58. ttings box All measured noise levels are shown in the P rofile Viewer use the menu Profile gt Profile Viewer to open it Use the Quality indicator in the Device Noise Profile box to estimate the accuracy of the profile The indicator shows how accurate and complete is the noise profile itself Higher values usually lead to more accurate noise reduction 3 We recommend disabling the sharpening filter when adjusting the noise filter To disable the sharpening filter uncheck all channels in the Sharpening Settings box 4 See what is frequency question in page 26 5 Sep 14 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 13 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius Check the Smooth edges option to make edges and lines in the clip look smoother Check the High quality option to enable higher quality noise reduction filter This will slightly slow down processing but will deliver the most accurate results in return Check the High resolution option to enable the higher resolution noise filter This may be useful when processing clips with very fine details that should be better preserved by the filter Use intra frame preview Use the intra frame preview when adjusting the noise filter settings After you have made changes to the noise filter parameters do not forget to check the preview Use the preview on different parts of the frame to get a better feeling for the results of noise re
59. uction is applied to the elements identified as noise in the same video component In Advanced mode you can adjust the noise levels as well as noise reduction amounts for each video component The noise levels are adjusted relative to the noise levels of the current noise profile that have been measured during profiling 12 Neat Video 1999 2014 Neat Video team ABSoft All rights reserved 5 Sep 14 User Guide Neat Video plug in for Edius For example the noise level of the Y luminance channel could be measured in the noise profile at 8 55 units This number tells the noise filter which elements should be considered noise and which details the elements that are weaker than 8 55 units are considered noise and reduced by the noise filter the elements that are stronger than 8 55 units are considered details and preserved If you do not change the default noise filter settings Noise Levels Y 0 then noise reduction in the Y channel is completely determined by the measured number from the noise profile 8 55 units However if you do adjust the filter setting for the Y noise level then this adjustment is also taken into account For example if you set the Noise Levels Y control to 15 then what is considered by the noise filter as the actual noise level is 8 55 100 15 gt 9 83 units With this adjustment the elements in the Y channel that are weaker than 9 83 units are considered noise and reduced and ele

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