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Neat Video 6: Supersonic Jumbo Jet
Feb 12, 2025
Intelligent, Efficient, Fast
Can you imagine waiting at the gate for your 19-hour flight from New York to Singapore? The feeling can be daunting, even if you are in business class, let alone economy. Now, how would you like the news that the airline had upgraded their fleet and you would only spend 12 hours in the air? There wouldn’t be many complains, that’s for sure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Intelligent Adaptation
Neat Video 6 also uses a new built-in intelligent system to monitor, analyze and dynamically adjust the performance parameters within an ongoing render process to achieve the best speed in each individual segment of the project timeline. This system can also adapt to changes in editing, such as adding more effects or clips with different resolutions, as well as fluctuations in the overall computer processing speed due to other applications or changes in performance mode. It can also adapt to changes in hardware, such as when you add or replace a CPU or GPU.
Such intelligent adaptation was not available in previous versions. This new feature can automatically and intelligently handle those technical aspects for you, reducing the render time and saving you time for more creative work.

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

Fast Floating Point Processing for Higher Speed
The software now uses a new and more efficient Fast Floating Point Processing mode by default. This allows for faster rendering without sacrificing image quality. The Full Processing mode remains an option available to Pro users who may need it in VFX, CGI and other similar fields.

Optimized CPU + GPU Performance
Both CPU- and GPU-specific bits of code have been additionally optimized to deliver higher computing efficiency at the very heart of the video processing engine. Moreover, Neat Video 6 more intelligently distributes load between the CPU cores and GPUs, leveraging the strengths of each.

Parallel Processing and Idle Time Reduction
Neat Video 6 enhances efficiency further by doing more work in parallel with the host application, reducing idle time and ensuring faster rendering.

GPU Integration with Video Editing Applications
Neat Video 6 continues adding GPU-based integration with capable video editing applications. The GPU integration allows the host application and plug-in to exchange video data using the GPU and its memory, which is significantly faster than the system memory. Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve users are the first to benefit from this technology. We are also looking forward to add this functionality in more plug-ins for other capable host applications.

Newest Hardware Supported
Neat Video 6 adds support for the latest Apple Silicon machines based on M4 series of chips. The new 50-series of NVIDIA GPUs (including such models as RTX 5090 and 5080) are also supported now. RTX 5090 is the fastest ever GPU that can run Neat Video.
Higher Resolution Made Easier
With more projects using UHD, 4K, 5K, 6K, 8K resolutions and beyond, video editors have to keep up with the increasing hardware and especially memory requirements to allow a comfortable working pace without significant slowdowns.

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

Smarter Memory Management
Neat Video 6 is designed to dynamically adjust its use of the GPU memory (VRAM), which is especially important for computers with limited amount of GPU memory. Smarter memory usage reduces the likelihood of system throttling, slowdowns, and excessive use of virtual memory, etc.

Higher Resolution without Memory Overload
Thanks to improved memory management and a more efficient data format, Neat Video 6 requires significantly less RAM and VRAM than Neat Video 5, in some cases up to 2 times less. This helps Neat Video 6 to handle high-resolution projects easier.

Extending Hardware Life
The software’s reduced memory footprint lowers possible use of virtual memory, which in turn reduces use and wear of SSDs. This is particularly important for Apple Silicon machines that aggressively use the virtual memory to compensate shortage of Unified Memory. This can also reduce the need to upgrade or replace the whole computer or its components.
More Accurate with HDR Video
And, of course, the filter itself has been improved, delivering more accurate denoising and de-flickering in situations involving HDR footage or footage that is underexposed or overexposed.

Adjustable Gain for Accurate Noise Reduction
If you work with an underexposed or overexposed video, or with a regular HDR video, then adjusting the input gain before profiling and noise reduction can help Neat Video to do its job more accurately. Neat Video 6 now has a new control to allow you to apply a gain adjustment in order to prepare the input video for optimal processing. This gain adjustment is temporary, only used internally by the software to process the video and then it is undone once processing is complete. This new feature offers a recommended value to make it easier for you to choose the right adjustment. In the Pro version, you can also manually adjust this value.
Special Treats for Premiere Pro Users
If you're a Premiere Pro user, Neat Video 6 offers some important improvements tailored just for you. The added GPU integration allows to avoid several known issues of Premiere Pro, speed up rendering and enhance your overall editing experience in Premiere Pro.

GPU Integration
Neat Video 6’s newly added GPU-based integration of the plug-in with Premiere Pro enables shorter rendering times because Neat Video and Premiere Pro can exchange video data faster. Additionally, the use of the GPU-based integration allows to avoid many Premiere-specific issues that sometimes show up when using the traditional CPU-based integration. This leads to more visually accurate and predictable results when previewing and rendering in Premiere Pro.

Lumetri Case
Neat Video 6 implements a set of measures to avoid one of the most significant slowdowns in Premiere Pro: its render performance is reduced a lot (we observed a x5 and even x10 slowdown in some cases) whenever Lumetri is processed before a temporal effect. Neat Video 6 users can now avoid this slowdown without having to keep Lumetri after the denoiser.
Maintaining Top of the Line Filters
One of the challenges of this release has been maintaining the excellent filtering capabilities of Neat Video across multiple optimizations applied to achieve higher performance. Thanks to the experience and dedication of the team all the filtering power and accuracy have been preserved and Neat Video 6 is going super-strong when filtering various types of video noise, grain, flicker, dust, scratches and other imperfections.

Premium Noise Reduction and Sharpening

The Best Noise-Reduction Algorithms in the Industry
Neat Video’s noise reduction algorithms surpass the quality of all classic noise reduction methods — even relatively new wavelet-based methods. Neat Video’s more advanced, more efficient approach allows it to draw a clearer distinction between random noise and details in video data, enabling it to reduce more noise and better preserve true details.

Advanced Temporal Noise Filter
Neat Video’s advanced temporal noise filter analyzes and compares a range of consecutive frames in order to gain as much information as possible. This allows the filter to more accurately distinguish between noise and detail in order to reduce noise and artifacts.

Sophisticated Spatial Noise Filter
The spatial noise filter reduces noise elements even further on a frame-by-frame basis across a range of frequencies and color channels.

Specialized Dust and Scratches Filter
In addition, Neat Video features a filter that targets specific imperfections such as film scratches, film dust, impulse interference and similar defects. This filter can also treat corrupted scan lines, spots, dots, and other video maladies.

Slow Shutter Mode
This mode reduces noise in clips containing repeated frames such as those shot in “slow shutter” or “night mode”. It also improves clips that have had their frame rates artificially increased.

Artifact Removal Filter
Digital artifacts such as impulse noise created by video compression are treated by this filter. In addition, it also addresses dots and small lines that may be not fully removed by Neat Video’s regular noise filters.

Adaptive Filtration
This feature automatically adjusts the noise filter in situations where noise properties are changing in different parts of a video clip — ensuring more accurate noise-reduction.

Smart Sharpening
The intelligent sharpening filter takes advantage of Neat Video’s noise profiling techniques to sharpen the picture without amplifying noise. Neat Video sharpening has a halo-free mode.

Customizable Noise Filter Settings
Neat Video's filter is highly adjustable. While its default settings deliver good results, it also offers near complete control over each noise filtration setting. This allows you to fine-tune the noise reduction parameters to your exact requirements.
Intuitive Noise Profiling

Device Noise Profiles
Neat Video generates and utilizes device-specific noise profiles. These are reusable analyses of the noise characteristics of different devices in different recording modes. Thanks to these noise profiles, Neat Video knows exactly what type of noise it is encountering in a particular clip regardless of the source or mode of capture. Armed with this information the program is able to distinguish noise from details and achieve more accurate noise-reduction results.

Auto Profile Feature
Neat Video’s Auto Profile tool automatically examines the content of a clip and builds a custom noise profile specifically for it. This is extremely accurate, however it is possible to override it and use semi-automatic or manual noise analysis methods if preferred.

Profile Viewer and Profile Quality Indicators
Building and using good profiles is the most important step to ensure quality noise reduction. The Profile Viewer provides detailed information about the noise sample and the measured noise levels. The profile indicators help determine if a profile was accurately built and fine-tuned.
Instant Visual Feedback

Immediate Preview
Neat Video offers a built-in preview that allows you to view results and adjust the filter settings to optimize performance.

Multiple Preview Modes
You can manually select an area of interest for preview as well as evaluate filtration results separately for each channel and frequency component.
Comprehensive Host Integration

High-Bitdepth Rendering
Neat Video takes advantage of the full power of modern video processing applications, offering high-bitdepth rendering in programs that support it. These applications include After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut, Motion, Vegas Pro, AVX hosts and OpenFX hosts.

Supported by Most Video Editing Platforms
Neat Video works with most of the current video editing applications in use by both professional and consumer video editors.

Neat Video plug-ins work as regular video filters. They can apply noise reduction and sharpening exactly where it is required: in a chosen layer of an After Effects composition, in a chosen clip of a Premiere sequence, in a chosen track in Vegas, etc.

Click here to explore the full list of compatible software and system requirements.

Supports All Frame Sizes
Neat Video Pro Edition supports any frame size without limit including Full HD, 4K, 8K, etc.
The Home Edition supports up to 1920x1080 pixels (DVD, HDV 720p, Full HD).
The Demo Edition supports up to 1280x720 pixels (VCD, SD, DVD, HDV 720p) with a watermark added.
Excellent Hardware Optimization

GPU Acceleration
Got a powerful graphics card? Neat Video enables GPU acceleration to speed up processing and cut down on render times. Neat Video supports most CUDA-capable NVIDIA GPUs and a large number of OpenCL-capable AMD video cards.

Multi-Core, Multi-CPU and Multi-GPU Hardware Functionality
Neat Video is engineered to make the best use of the available hardware present in your system. It is optimized for use on multi-core, multi-CPU and multi-GPU systems. In addition, Neat Video supports the use of multiple graphics cards and multiple CPU cores simultaneously to deliver the best filtration speed possible.

Works with All Video File Formats
Neat Video is able to process any video format that is supported by your editing application including AVI, MPEG, MOV, WMV and many more. In other words, if your editing platform is able to open a video file, Neat Video will be able to apply noise reduction to that clip.