How To Use Neat Video

This guide is for Swell Video v4 plug-in for Premiere being used with Premiere Pro CC 2015.

If you utilize another Bang-up Video plug-in or another editing awarding, please select the corresponding quick start guide.

1. Installing the plug-in

To install the Neat Video plug-in for Premiere:

Make sure you have started Premiere Pro at to the lowest degree once before installing the plug-in. If you have not washed that yet, start Premiere Pro and exit information technology.
Download the installer of Nifty Video for Premiere:

If yous already purchased the product and accept a electric current license for the Home or Pro plug-in, please download the corresponding Habitation or Pro plug-in from My Products folio
If you want to effort Nifty Video before buy, please download the Demo plug-in from Download folio

Starting the installer:

For Windows:

Double-click the downloaded EXE file to start the installer

For Mac OS Ten :

a. Double-click the downloaded DMG file to mount the book
b. In the mounted volume, double-click NeatVideoPR.Intel.pkg to start the installer
(you may be prompted to enter the Name / Password of the OSX administrator business relationship)

Proceed through the steps of the installation procedure. Use the default settings offered by the installer. If the installer does not automatically find the location of the host application (in the "Boosted tasks" step of the installation), delight specify the correct location manually and then complete the installation process. This should make the plug-in bachelor to the host application.
Start Premiere Pro and observe Neat Video > Reduce Noise v4 in the Premiere Pro's Consequence menu. Please do that manually, not using the congenital-in Search, since it may piece of work incorrectly.

In example the plug-in has not become bachelor in Premiere Pro, please contact Neat Video support for assistance.

2. Running Neat Video on a sample video clip

Please download the test-kit prepared to help y'all get-go using Cracking Video. Having downloaded, please unzip it to a new binder on the difficult disk.

The test-kit includes a sample video clip: SampleClip.mpg. This is a typical video clip captured by a digital video camera in high-gain mode. Some technical information near the sample clip is available in the SampleClipInfo.txt file.

Please outset Premiere Pro and go through the steps beneath to clean the clip using Neat Video.

2.1. Add the sample prune to the project

1. Configure a new project in Premiere Pro

Go to FIle > New > Project... to create a new project in Premiere Pro:

So go to File > New > Sequence :

Select AVCHD > AVCHD 1080p25 and click OK. Premiere Pro will open the Projection, Effects, Effect Controls, Timeline and Program Monitor windows for the newly created projection with a new sequence.

two. Add the sample clip file to the project

Utilize the File > Import... in Premiere Pro to import the SampleClip.mpg file into the projection:

3. Add the sample clip to the sequence

Select the sample clip in the Projection window and drag-due north-driblet the prune into Sequence 01 / Video ane in the Timeline window. Then select Sequence 01 > Video one .

The Premiere Pro preview window will display the sample clip and you will see that there is strong noise in it. The task of Neat Video is to reduce this noise.

2.ii. Add together Neat Video event

In the Effects window, select Video Effects | Cracking Video | Reduce Noise v4... and drag-n-driblet it into Video 1 in the Sequence 01 / Video 1 in the Timeline window:

This volition add the Reduce Dissonance v4 effect to the Video Effects list in the Effects Controls window.

Make sure Program Monitor is set to Highest Quality: right-click frame in Premiere Pro'south preview and in the popup carte du jour select Playback quality > Full:

Paused Resolution > Full:

2.3. Configure Neat Video

1. Open up Slap-up Video plug-in window

In the video clip in the Timeline window, use the Current Time Indicator to select a frame with big flat featureless areas; the selected frame will be used for dissonance assay in the next stages.
Open the Not bad Video plug-in window using the effect's Setup... push button (to the right of Reduce Noise v4 outcome proper name) in the Effect Controls window in Premiere Pro.
(If yous run the Demo plug-in, click OK in the popup splash screen of the plug-in to proceed further).

The Peachy Video plug-in window will open and display the electric current frame from the clip:

ii. Build a noise profile for the clip

To reduce racket in this frame and in the whole clip, Smashing Video generally needs a noise profile describing the noise properties of the clip. You lot can prepare such a profile using the Auto Profile function:

In the Device Noise Profile tab click

The Auto Profile function will find and select an area for main analysis. Peachy Video will and so automatically clarify the noise in that area to build a new noise profile:

Visually inspect the selected area — it should incorporate no visible details, only noise; otherwise the noise profile and subsequent noise reduction may be inaccurate.

If the selected area does contain whatsoever details, movement the selection to a featureless area or simply draw a new choice in such an area (the option must be at least 32x32 pixels large). Then click the Automobile Profile button once more.

Subsequently that Neat Video is ready to filter the prune.

3. Check Preview

Switch to the Noise Filter Settings tab

You will observe that Slap-up Video has already applied racket reduction based on the default filter settings and the preview shows a clearly visible deviation: there is less noise than in the original frame.

You tin can try to adjust the filter settings and see how that affects the results. For example, endeavor to adjust the Temporal Filter > Radius setting (in the Temporal tab in the Filter Settings box in the right part of the window) from 2 to 1 or to a higher value. This volition apply weaker or stronger temporal dissonance reduction to the frame.

4. Use the changes

Click in the bottom of the plug-in window.

Neat Video will save the current settings and shut its main window.
(If you run the Demo plug-in, information technology will also depict the limitations of the Demo version at this signal).

Once this footstep is completed and Keen Video window is closed, the filter is ready for work.

The preview in Premiere Pro now shows the clip with noise reduction applied to it:

ii.4. Render the video

To apply Neat Video dissonance reduction

Utilise the Sequence > Render Effects in Work Area carte du jour detail in Premiere Pro.

Premiere Pro will then apply Neat Video noise reduction to the whole sample prune to help you evaluate the filtration results (and adjust the filter settings if necessary). You will run into that the noise in the resulting clip is significantly reduced while the truthful details are preserved.

Please see the User Guide (Win) and User Guide (OS X) for more details about adjusting the filter settings and other aspects of using Bang-up Video. These Video Tutorials will also help y'all to get the near out of Neat Video noise reduction.