Neat Video plug-in for Sony Vegas 2.2

Neat Video plug-in for Sony Vegas 2.2 is a professional video filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain in digital video sequences produced by digital video cameras, camcorders, TV-tuners, digitizers of film or analog video.

Major Features:

1. Premium Noise Reduction and Sharpening
   
   • Advanced intra-frame noise filter to reduce noise and grain in each frame of a video sequence and intelligent temporal noise filter to further reduce any remaining imperfections by analysing consequent frames: Neat Video incorporates the most advanced noise reduction algorithms in the industry that surpass the quality of all classic noise reduction methods and even that of the wavelet-based methods. Although the wavelet-based methods were developed only 10-15 years ago and still considered relatively modern, Neat Video uses an even newer and more efficient approach to noise reduction. This approach allows us to draw a more clear distinction between noise and details in video data. That helps Neat Video to reduce more noise and better preserve true details.
   • Adaptive filtration to automatically adjust noise filters to the changing noise in different parts of a video sequence. This feature provides more accurate noise reduction that takes into account the variability of noise properties in different parts of video data.
   • Complete control over the noise filter to achieve desired level of noise reduction. Neat Video provides direct access to virtually all noise filter settings. For every channel component and spatial frequency component of the video sequence, you can adjust the noise level estimation and specify how much of the detected noise must be removed. Default filter settings work very well and if you want to tweak the filter then the complete control is under your tips.
   • Smart Sharpening Filter to make video sequence look sharper without amplification of noise. Neat Video includes an intelligent sharpening filter. Working together with the noise filter, the sharpening filter makes the video sequence look sharper without any degradation of video sequence quality. Neat Video sharpening has a halo-free mode.
   • 16-bit rendering support to utilize advanced capabilities of modern video processing tools. The versions of Neat Video Pro plug-in for After Effects and Premiere fully support 48-bit RGB (16-bit per channel) rendering. This capability complements the advanced rendering capabilities of these hosts.
2. Noise Reduction Plug-In
   
   • Neat Video works with After Effects (Win, Mac), Premiere (Win), Final Cut (Mac), VirtualDub, Sony Vegas, Pinnacle Studio. Neat Video plug-ins work as regular video filters in After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut, VirtualDub, Sony Vegas and Pinnacle Studio. Neat Video plug-ins can apply noise reduction and sharpening exactly where is required: in a chosen layer of an After Effects composition, in a chosen clip of a Premiere sequence, in a chosen track in Sony Vegas.
   • Any video file format supported by After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut, VirtualDub, Sony Vegas or Pinnacle Studio
   • can be processed with the Neat Video plug-in. For example, you can open an AVI, MPEG, MOV, WMV, etc., video file in the host application and then directly process it using Neat Video.
   • Frame sizes supported:
3. Device Noise Profiles
   
   • Device noise profiles to make noise reduction device-specific
   • Neat Video uses device noise profiles - reusable analysis of noise properties of particular video capturing device (digital video camera, analog video digitizer, etc.) working in a certain mode. That makes Neat Video noise reduction custom-tailored to devices described by noise profiles and provides the highest accuracy of noise reduction.
   • Auto Profile to automatically build profiles for your video capturing device
   • Neat Video can automatically make necessary noise analysis of the input video sequence to build a custom noise profile specifically for this sequence. You can use the automatics or override it and use the semi-automatic or fully-manual noise analyzers.
   • Profile Viewer and profile quality indicators to help you build accurate profiles and control profile quality
   • Profile Viewer provides detailed information about a noise profile: analyzed noise sample and measured noise levels. The profile indicators show whether a profile was accurately built and fine-tuned. Using quality profiles is the most important step to quality noise reduction.
4. Visual feedback
   
   • Embedded intra-frame preview for any selected area of the frame
   • When adjusting the filter settings, you can immediately see the preview results in a selected area. You can select any area and move selection across the frame to get better feeling of how the filtered frame will look like as compared with the original.
   • Preview of filtration results separately for each channel and frequency component (Win versions)
   • Using Component Viewer, you can see the preview details on a per channel and per frequency basis. This capability greatly helps to tune the filter settings exactly where needed — in a specific channel or frequency component.
   • Variant Selector for easier optimization of filters settings (Win versions)
   • Variant Selector enables convenient comparison of applying several filter setting variants. You can consecutively adjust the filter settings and then quickly select the best variant by visually comparing the corresponding filtration results.

Enhancements:

• Improves Auto Profiling
• Auto Fine-Tuning
• Memory and resource management
• And stability of rendering with Adaptive Filtration enabled.

Requirements:

1. Windows versions:
   
   • Any Windows version
   • Pentium II or better
   • 256MB RAM
   • True color display
2. Mac OSX versions:
   
   • OSX 10.4+
   • Intel or PowerPC
   • 1GB RAM
   • True color display