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Version 5.6.6
Added support for After Effects 2025
Improved installer: updated detection of host applications
Added Copy and Paste commands in the Effect, Profile and Filter menus to enable copy and paste of profiles, presets or both frm one instance of the effect to another
Updated User Guide
Fixed several minor issues


Neat Video 5.6.5 is live
Jun 28, 2024
Neat Video has released the version 5.6.5, introducing support for the newly updated versions of several video editing applications and for the upcoming macOS 15. It also includes several enhancements and fixes across all three OS platforms.

The additionally supported versions of the video editing applications include:

DaVinci Resolve 19
DaVinci Resolve Studio 19

BMD Fusion Studio 19
Autodesk Flame 2025
BorisFX Silhouette 2024

Final Cut Pro 10.8
Motion 5.8

Magix Video Pro X (X16)
Magix Movie Studio 2025
macOS 15 (Sequoia) has been supported and tested ahead of its release to ensure smooth denoising when the new OS is rolled out.

Neat Video 5.6.5 for OFX hosts has updated the default gamma setting to linear in Baselight and Natron to better match the regular workflow in these host applications.

This Neat Video update also improves UI, messaging and fixes minor technical issues.


Neat Video 5.6 is here
Nov 13, 2023
Neat Video is ready to introduce the 5.6 update, taking on board several new versions of NLEs and GPUs. These improvements aim to make the transition to new versions of video editing applications and hardware as easy as possible.

Support for the latest versions of NLEs
The Neat Video plugins have now been updated to ensure compatibility with the latest versions of host applications including:

Premiere Pro 2024
Premiere Elements 2024
After Effects 2024

Foundry Nuke 15
Foundry Nuke Indie 15
HS-ART DustBuster+ 15

Magix Vegas Pro 21
Edius 11
Magix Video Pro X (X15)
Magix Movie Studio 2024
Support for new GPU models
Hardware compatibility has also been extended to the following additional GPUs:

Apple
M2 Ultra
M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max
AMD Radeon (Windows and Linux)
RX 7600 / 7600S / 7600M / 7600M XT
RX 7600M XT / 7600M / 7600S
RX 7700 XT / 7700S
RX 7800 XT
RX 7900 GRE / 7900M
Enhanced user experience
Across these plugins, you'll find consistent improvements that ensure smoother operation, better handling of issues, and improved user interfaces:

Enhanced reporting of gamma mismatch
Improved processing of specific error messages
Minor refinements in the user interface
Fixed various minor issues


Neat Video 5.5.9 is live
May 11, 2023
We're pleased to announce that the Neat Video 5 OFX plug-in optimized for Baselight is now available.

As you know Baselight systems come in different modifications, including ONE, TWO, and X. Previously, the Neat Video 5 OFX plug-in was able to use all available CPU and GPU computing resources of Baselight ONE systems only. However, on Baselight TWO and X, it could only use the host machine's CPU and GPUs, but not the GPUs of the node machine. This limited the overall performance. Working together with the Baselight team, we have been able to better optimize Neat Video for Baselight in general and to let Neat Video use the GPU of the node machine as well.

The result is that Neat Video can now run about 1.3x–1.9x faster on Baselight ONE machines (with Baselight 5.3.17711 or newer). The speed up on Baselight TWO/X is usually even higher as it is mostly determined by the GPU of the node machine. Beta-tests have demonstrated speed increases up to 4.0x as compared with the CPU-only mode used on the node machines by the previous versions of the plug-in.

We would like to thank Neat Video users who volunteered to test the beta version of the optimized plug-in. The updated version of Neat Video 5.5.9 is now ready for use.

Neat Video 5.5.9 is also introducing support for several new versions of other host applications:

Autodesk Flame Family 2024 (MacOS, both Intel and Apple Silicon)
Autodesk Flame Family 2024 (Linux)
HitFilm 2023 (Windows, MacOS)
Media Composer 2023 (Windows, MacOS)
Resolve and Resolve Studio 18.5 (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
Fusion Studio 18.5 (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
BorisFX Silhouette 2023 (Windows, MacOS, Linux)


Neat Video 5.5.8
Feb 14, 2023
Neat Video 5.5.8 has been released with a number of updates for macOS, Windows, and Linux users.

Improved compatibility and refined user experience
The latest version of the video noise reduction software now supports GPU on M2 Pro and M2 Max computers, which means better performance and more stable work with your new computers. The list of host applications that can run Neat Video natively on M2 Pro and M2 Max includes:

Premiere Pro
After Effects
Final Cut
DaVinci Resolve
Some OpenFX host applications (those that natively support Apple Silicon)
Windows and Linux users will appreciate the added support for new AMD GPUs:

Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Radeon RX 7900 XT
The 7900 XTX has been able to deliver a whopping speed of 103 FPS working with FullHD clips (Neat Video alone, the speed observed in renders will be lower due to the overhead of host applications).

In addition, the OpenFX plugin now adds support for the new versions of Foundry Nuke:

Nuke 14
Nuke Indie 14


Neat Video 5.5.5
Oct 21, 2022
New hardware, new versions of host applications, new Neat Video v5.5.5

This update abounds with added support to both newest hardware and versions of host applications.

The biggest speed improvement has been enabled by adding support to the newest NVIDIA’s GPU. RTX 4090 has demonstrated the incredible speed of 120 FPS (working with FullHD frames). Just like that, RTX 4090 has taken the top row in our GPU leaderboard.

The era of M2 has officially began and Neat Video is ready to maximize the potential of your new Apple toys by adding support for both new CPU and GPU. The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with M2 on board are able to deliver 18 FPS working with FullHD clips. Now we are looking forward to seeing new and more powerful computers based on M2.

The new chip is not the only good news for macOS users. Neat Video has also started working with three new AMD GPU cards:

AMD Radeon RX 6600 / RX 6600 XT
AMD Radeon 6900 XTXH
Lots of video editing applications have also come up with new versions of their software and Neat Video team has made sure that you can work with all of them. The version 5.5.5 has added support for the following versions of host applications:

Adobe Premiere Pro 2023
Adobe Premiere Elements 2023
Adobe After Effects 2023

DaVinci Resolve 18
DaVinci Resolve Studio 18
Magix Vegas Pro 20
Media Composer 2022
Magix Video Pro X (X14)
Magix Movie Studio 2023 / 2022
A bunch of new versions of OpenFX hosts has been supported too. This time the list consists of:

Autodesk Flame Family 2023
Fusion Studio 18
BorisFX Silhouette 2022
HitFilm Pro 2022
HS-ART DustBuster+ 14
This release has also fixed several issues and improved overall stability and performance.


More compatible than ever. Neat Video 5.5
Feb 24, 2022

Neat Video 5.5 is here, with one theme behind the entire update: compatibility with the newest hardware and software opening new doors for even bigger, more astonishing projects.

So keep reading to find out what we have in store for you this time!

Support for new software and hardware: With all the new powerful GPUs and CPUs coming to the market, we want to help our users utilize their new powerhouse rigs to the utmost potential.

Here’s a gist of what’s coming:

Mac

GPU-based processing on the new Apple Silicon, including M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max for all the current applications that support Apple Silicon, such as Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Fusion Studio, Final Cut, and After Effects (beta).
Added compatibility and support for macOS 12 Monterey.
Improved support for macOS 11 Big Sur.
Windows

Added compatibility and support for the all-new Windows 11.
Added support for two new AMD Navi 23 GPUs:
RX 6600
RX 6600 XT
Linux

Neat Video now supports the latest and most powerful AMD RDNA 2 GPUs in DaVinci Resolve and OFX-based hosts, including:
Radeon RX 6600 / 6600 XT
Radeon RX 6700 XT
Radeon RX 6800 / 6800 XT
Radeon RX 6900 XT
Improved support for AMD Navi-based GPUs with the recent drivers.
After Effects

The Neat Video plug-in for After Effects can now natively run on Apple Silicon machines in the most recent beta version of After Effects that’s currently out on M1-based Apple computers.
Automatic gamma detection and adjustment, as well as notifying the user in case of gamma mismatch.
A more fluid, personalized user experience

Improved visuals on high-DPI monitors and multi-monitor systems.
More stable and reliable processing of larger frames in GPU mode.
New hints and tips all throughout the user interface.
Added a new keyboard shortcut for “Auto Profile with Current Frame”.
Improved support for color themes (Preferences > General):
Added a new Auto-detect brightness option.
The Normal brightness theme has been re-designed.
Adjustments in the Reduced brightness color theme.


Neat Video updated to version 5.4.5
Jul 12, 2021

It's Christmas in July time. Time for some presents and the Neat Video team has been helping Summer-Santa developing the new update of your denoiser and deflicker to make it faster, add compatibility with new versions of software and just make it a better helper for you.

Better speed
Neat speed masters have been working on Neat Video's performance on Apple Silicon computers and made the denoiser work 5-10% faster (the speed of Neat Video working alone, see more information here). It's a modest step forward, yet every bit counts and we will continue speeding things up.

Improved compatibility
New versions of different video editing applications were quite plentiful during the last couple of months. Neat Video 5.4.5 has included support for the new Adobe, Magix and OFX hosts:

After Effects 2021
Premiere 2021

Magix Video Pro X (X13)
OFX hosts:

Nuke 13, Nuke Indie 13
Flame Family 2022
HitFilm 2021.1
DIAMANT-Film Restoration & DustBuster+ 13 (Windows)
We have also added support for several new AMD GPU cards on both Windows and macOS:

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (gfx1031, Navi 22), Windows
AMD RX 6800 / 6800 XT / 6900 XT, macOS
The compatibility with the latest AMD GPU drivers for Windows has been improved.

Refined user experience
To give you a better understanding of what is happening in Neat Video, some information and error messages have been clarified in all Neat Video 5 plug-ins. We have also improved messaging in Neat Video Windows installers and fixed several minor issues throughout the plug-ins.


Version 5.4.3
Cosmetic changes in user interface

Several minor bugs have been fixed


Neat Video 5.4. Mac matching has began
Feb 25, 2021

The most important and, perhaps, the most wanted change of this update is the native support for new Apple Silicon Macs added now in two of the Neat Video plug-ins. Also, we have improved support for macOS Big Sur and brought optimizations and compatibility with new versions of several host applications. The list of GPUs that Neat Video can utilize has been extended with several new AMD models.

Support for Apple Silicon M1 Macs (in some plug-ins)

First things first: from now on some of the Neat Video 5.4 plug-ins can work on Apple Silicon M1 Macs natively. The pioneer plug-ins with native support for Apple Silicon M1 Macs are:

Neat Video v5.4 plug-in for Resolve
Neat Video v5.4 plug-in for OFX hosts
Each of these two plug-ins is now available as a Universal Binary that can work on both Intel Macs and Apple Silicon M1 Macs. Their native M1 versions work about 30% faster than the Intel versions running via Rosetta 2 on the same M1 computers.

We continue working to add the same support for Apple Silicon M1 Macs in more of Neat Video 5.4 plug-ins in the coming weeks and months (depending on the availability of the native M1 versions of the corresponding host applications and development tools for those applications).

Currently, we are working on a new version of the plug-in for Final Cut with Intel and M1 support. This plug-in requires more changes than others to support the new Macs. We will make a separate announcement once that plug-in is ready.


Support for macOS Big Sur

All Neat Video 5.4 plug-ins for Mac can work on the new macOS Big Sur. The installers of Neat Video 5.4 plug-ins have been improved to make the installation process smoother in Catalina and Big Sur.

Note: several older versions of macOS (10.9.5–10.12.x) are no longer supported by Neat Video 5.4 for technical reasons. If you need to use Neat Video in one of those macOS versions, you can do that using Neat Video 5.3 (available in your account).


New versions of host applications and GPUs

The newest Resolve 17 hosts are now supported by Neat Video. In addition, the plug-in's code has been optimized to work faster in these new versions of Resolve including:

Resolve 17 (Windows, macOS Intel / M1, Linux)
Resolve Studio 17 (Windows, macOS Intel / M1, Linux)
Neat Video 5.4 adds support for the new versions of three OpenFX applications:

Fusion Studio 17 (Windows, macOS Intel / M1, Linux)
HitFilm Pro 16 (Windows, macOS Intel)
DustBuster+ 13 (macOS Intel)
Neat Video 5.4 also supports the new versions of more hosts:

Media Composer 2021 (Windows, macOS Intel)
Premiere Elements 2021 (Windows, macOS Intel)
Magix Movie Edit Pro 2021 (Windows)
Magix Video Deluxe 2021 (Windows)
Several new AMD GPU models have been added to the list of compatible graphic cards:

Radeon RX 6800 / 6800 XT / 6900 XT (Windows)
Radeon Pro W5700 / W5500 / W5500X (macOS)


Neat Video 5.3 has arrived
Sep 25, 2020

One of the most exciting ingredients of this update for Windows and Linux users is the support for the newest NVIDIA Ampere GPUs. This family has just welcomed three new cards: GeForce RTX 3070, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. All these cards have impressive numbers of CUDA cores and support PCI Express 4.0 — the new generation of the serial bus protocol. In addition, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 are equipped with fast GDDR6X memory capable of transferring up to 760 and 935 GB/s respectively. Thanks to these improvements Neat Video 5.3 will work significantly faster with the new GPUs.

Apple users won’t miss out on this release as we have added support for several new AMD cards as well.

The list of the new GPU models added in this version of Neat Video includes:

NVIDIA
Ampere GPUs including GeForce RTX 3070 / 3080 / 3090 (Windows, Linux)
AMD
Radeon Pro 5600M in new MacBook Pros
Radeon Pro 5300 / 5500 XT / 5700 / 5700 XT in new iMacs
Unfortunately, we had to discontinue support for several old GPU models. This had to be done due to the changes in both NVIDIA ’s and AMD’s drivers and development tools. More details on this can be found in the History of Changes.

Of course, not only hardware is affected by progress. Software is also going forward. In fact, a new video editing software package has been recently crafted by BorisFX team. Neat Video is proud to be among the first plug-ins supporting their new Silhouette 2020.5.5+ available on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

Here is the complete list of the new and updated versions of video editing applications Neat Video 5.3 has added support for:

BorisFX Silhouette 2020.5.5+ (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
Vegas Pro 18 (Windows)
Edius X (Windows)
Magix Video Pro X12 / X11 (Windows)
HitFilm 15 (Windows, MacOS)
Dustbuster+ 12.5 / 11 (MacOS)
Flame 2021 (MacOS, Linux)
In addition, several minor issues have been fixed in Neat Video 5.3.

Neat Video 5.2.6
Jun 4, 2020

Happiness can only occur when the fundamentals are right. Irritation, however, can be caused by very little things. Listening to your feedback, it seems Neat Video 5 has got the main things sorted. Now we are polishing it to make the denoising process as pleasing and satisfying as it can be.

The 5.2.6 update is all about making you excited about removing video noise. So here is what we have got for you this time:

Smoother playback in Neat Video preview
Optimized zoom adjustment on the opening of Neat Video window
Improved initial positioning of Neat Video window
The team of supported GPUs has got some new recruits. This time it’s AMD units:

Radeon Pro W5700X
Radeon RX 5600 / 5600 XT
Radeon RX 5500 / 5500 XT
Radeon RX 5300M / 5500M
Radeon Pro WX 5100
This release has also included support to the newest versions of these video editing applications:

Vegas Movie Studio 17 (Platinum/Suite)
Media Composer 2020
DIAMANT- Film Restoration & DustBuster+ 12


Version 5.2: support for Metal
Feb 19, 2020

Neat Video 5.2 is here and very keen to gobble up some noise! The highlight of this update is embracing Metal support in MacOS plug-ins, which may noticeably improve render times. But that’s not all, we have other improvements up our sleeve, so keep on reading.

Support for Metal in MacOS
Neat Video 5.2 can now use the new Metal technology (in MacOS 10.15 and newer), in addition to OpenCL.

Using Metal instead of OpenCL may increase the speed of Neat Video's GPU-based processing for up to 40% depending on hardware, frame size and filter settings.
The speedup is especially noticeable with large frames (like 4K) and a high temporal radius.

If you run MacOS 10.15, try switching Neat Video from OpenCL to Metal
(Neat Video Preferences > Performance > GPU > Advanced Settings).

Added support for GPU models used in new Mac Pro machines:
AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
Also supported now (MacOS):
AMD Radeon RX 5700 / 5700 XT
AMD Radeon Pro 555X / 560X / 570X / 575X / 580X
Additional optimizations in GPU code:
Better performance with a single GPU on 8 and 16-bit clips:
up to 4%-8% depending on hardware and filter settings
Better performance with two GPUs working simultaneously
Improved receiving frames from Premiere to Neat Video making the process more reliable and visually indicative (in Premiere SR plug-in)

Added support for the new version of HitFilm in OpenFX plug-in:
HitFilm Pro 14 (Windows, MacOS)

Several changes and improvements in GUI


Neat Video 5.1.5 released
Nov 18, 2019

Neat Video v5 plug-ins have been updated to version 5.1.5 with added support for several new versions of video editing applications and new GPUs.

Added support for new AMD GPUs (Windows, Linux):
AMD Radeon RX 5700
AMD Radeon RRX 5700X
Added support for new AMD GPUs (MacOS):
AMD Radeon RX 5300M
AMD Radeon RRX 5500M
Added support for new versions of OpenFX video editing applications:
Nuke 12
HitFilm Pro 13 (Windows, MacOS)
Added support for new versions of Adobe video editing applications:
After Effects 2020
Premiere Pro 2020
Premiere Elements 2020
Added support for new version of Magix video editing applications:
Magix Movie Edit Pro 2020
Magix Video Deluxe 2020
Fixed several minor bugs


Neat Video 5.1 update
Aug 6, 2019

Neat Video plug-ins have been updated to version 5.1 with added support for several new versions of host applications and new GPU models. The update also includes stability and performance improvements. The most important changes include:

Optimized performance in GPU modes

Added support for new AMD GPUs:
AMD Radeon VII (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
AMD Radeon RX 590 (MacOS)
Some older AMD GPUs are no longer supported on Linux: refer to the history of changes below.

Improved compatibility with the most recent update of Adobe video editing applications:
Premiere Pro 2019
After Effects 2019
Added support for new versions of Resolve:
Resolve 16 Beta
Resolve Studio 16
Optimized performance with Resolve 16 and Resolve Studio 16.

Added support for new versions of several OpenFX host applications:
Fusion Studio 16 Beta (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
Mistika Boutique 8.8+ (Windows, MacOS)
Mistika Ultima 8.8+ (Linux)
Autodesk Flame Family 2020 (MacOS, Linux)
DIAMANT-Film Restoration & DustBuster+ 11 (Windows)
Added support for Vegas Pro 17

Added support for Media Composer 2019.
The 32-bit full float color pipeline in Media Composer 2019 is supported as well.

Improved Neat Video performance in several special situations
Improved frame flicker reduction in certain edge cases
Improved filtration quality when multiple consecutive copies of a frame are present
Improved conversion of noise profiles prepared in old versions of Neat Video
Better handling of incorrect input data (NaN in pixel values)
Added workarounds for the known Premiere bugs related to:
using a non-standard frame rate
applying Time Remapping or Speed/Duration
Fixed several minor bugs


Closer to Perfection — Neat Video 5 is here!
May 7, 2019

If you shoot video, like us, you shoot for perfection and the quest is never-ending! Every new version of Neat Video brings us closer to the ideal of noise-free video. Which is why we’re excited to announce the launch of Neat Video 5 — the fastest, most powerful and most user-friendly version of Neat Video yet.

Let’s take a quick look at the new features, tools and improvements.

What's New in Neat Video 5?
Neat Video has been given an overhaul to improve its performance while adding new visual feedback features and adjustable generic profiles helping to achieve great results easier and faster.

Significant Speed Improvements
The Neat Video 5's noise reduction engine is more efficient and makes better use of the available processing power. As a result, Neat Video processes video frames faster across the board, with up to 3.5 times speed improvement on certain systems. Actual speedup depends on CPU, GPU and OS used:

CPU-based processing
Up to 1.5x faster
GPU-based processing

Windows and Linux

1 GPU: Up to 3.5x faster (2.2x average)
2 GPUs: Up to 2x faster (1.6x average)
MacOS

1 GPU: Up to 2x faster (1.6x average)
2 GPUs: Up to 2x faster (1.7x average)
As measured in Neat Video 5 running with the filter settings matching those of Neat Video 4.

For more benchmarks and more hardware-specific details, check out history of changes.

You can quickly check the speed achievable by Neat Video 5 on your computer by downloading and running NeatBench 5.

Cleaner, Crisper Video
Neat Video 5 has improved the way frames are analysed and processed, which has resulted in a general improvement of noise reduction quality. Neat Video 5 also adds some powerful new features to deal with common imperfections in video.

Flicker reduction
Flicker is a distracting repeated change of brightness. Neat Video 5 includes new advanced flicker filters that can detect and reduce this problem for a more consistent look.

Jitter reduction (jitter of details)
Jitter of details is the distracting trembling of the objects in the scene seemingly distorted by heat haze. This problem is usually caused by video compression. Neat Video 5’s jitter filter detects and combats this effect to create smoother, more natural video.

Improved noise reduction
Reducing digital noise and film grain can be significantly complicated by presence of other imperfections such as flicker and jitter of details. Neat Video 5 uses its new flicker- and jitter-related tools to take into account and where possible reduce those imperfections to make the reduction of regular random noise and grain more accurate. All that together helps to eliminate more noise and retain more details than ever before.

Improved sharpening
Neat Video 5 adds new controls and makes improvements to the already sophisticated sharpening tool. It has been further refined to help users give their clips more definition and bring out the details without the features becoming unnatural or over-processed.

Improved Dust and Scratches filter
Dust and scratches are unwanted contaminations often found on archive film. Detection of those contaminations may be complicated by other imperfections such as flicker also often found in film-based video. The new flicker reduction tools of Neat Video 5 work together with the Dust and Scratches filter. Their synergy allows to identify and eliminate dust and scratches even more proficiently.
More User-Friendly than Ever
The Neat Video team has spent a great deal of time and effort to help users achieve better results easier and faster. As a result, Neat Video 5 has introduced several new features that make the plug-in more user-friendly and efficient.

Easier profiling
Neat Video 5 automatically obtains a better noise sample by using a larger number of frames for analysis — leading to more accurate noise profiles.

Adjustable generic profiles
Creating an accurate noise profile is the first step in quality noise reduction. Where possible, it’s best to build a noise profile using the very clip that needs to be denoised. Since this is not always possible, Neat Video 5 has introduced adjustable generic profiles to help you create a noise profile when the actual clip contains no suitable areas for analysis. This feature offers a good starting point and allows to easily tune the profile to more closely match the actual noise in the clip you’re working with.

New visual feedback tools
Neat Video 5 includes new visual feedback tools helping to adjust filter settings and achieve the best visual results. Specialized visual representations help to tune the amount of filtration applied. New masks help to find the areas that do not receive sufficient treatment.

New playback features
Want to see how the noise reduction results will look like in action? You can! With a new playback feature, Neat Video 5 gives you a live view of the final result directly in plug-in window. Allowing you to experiment and make changes before applying your final settings.


Neat Video 4.8.5 update
Dec 7, 2018
Neat Video v4 plug-ins have been updated to version 4.8.5 with added support for several new versions of host applications and new GPUs.

Added support for new NVIDIA and AMD GPUs
Windows, Linux:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 / 2080 / 2080 Ti
NVIDIA Titan RTX
NVIDIA Titan V
Mac OS X:
AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 / 20
AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 / 2080 / 2080 Ti
NVIDIA Titan RTX
NVIDIA Titan V
Important: due to changes in NVIDIA and AMD drivers, some older GPUs are no longer supported. Refer to the history of changes below for more details.

Added support for new versions of OFX host applications:
FXHOME HitFilm Pro 10 / 11 (Windows, Mac)
HS-ART DustBuster+ 10.6+ (Mac)
Added support for new versions of Adobe video editing host applications:
After Effects CC 2019
Premiere Pro CC 2019
Premiere Elements 2019
Added support for new version of Pinnacle Studio:
Pinnacle Studio 22.1


Neat Video 4.8 released
Sep 10, 2018

Neat Video v4 plug-ins have been updated to version 4.8 with added support for several new versions of host applications and new GPUs.

Added support for new versions of host applications:
After Effects CC 2018 (the most recent update)
Premiere Pro CC 2018 (the most recent update)
Avid Media Composer 2018
VirtualDub2
Sony Catalyst Edit 2018
Added support for new versions of OpenFX host applications:
DaVinci Resolve 15
Scratch 9 (on Windows and Mac)
HitFilm Pro 9 / 8 / 7 (on Windows and Mac)
Added support for new versions of Magix applications:
Magix Video Pro X (X10 / X9)
Magix Movie Edit Pro 2019
Magix Video Deluxe 2019
Added support for new versions of Vegas applications:
Vegas Pro 16
Vegas Movie Studio (Platinum/Suite) 15
Preliminary support for Pinnacle Studio 22 (custom build available on request only)

Improved compatibility with AMD GPUs:
Added support for Radeon RX 540 / 540X / 550 / 550X (Windows and Linux)
Added support for Radeon Pro WX 2100 / 3100 (Windows and Linux)
Improved support for AMD R9 290 (Windows and Linux)
Added support for Radeon Pro WX 9100 (Mac)
Improved support for AMD Vega Frontier Edition (Mac)


Neat Video 4.7 update
Dec 30, 2017

Neat Video 4 products have been updated to version 4.7 with added support for AMD Vega GPUs and new versions of host applications. The update also includes cosmetic changes in the user interface as well as other improvements:

Added support for new versions of OFX host applications:
DustBuster 10 (Windows)
HitFilm Pro 6 (Windows, Mac)
Added support for new versions of Magix applications:
Magix Video Deluxe 2018
Magix Movie Edit Pro 2018
Added support for Edius 9

Added support for new AMD GPUs.
AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 / 64, Vega Frontier Edition (Windows and Linux)
AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 / 64 (Mac)


Neat Video updated to version 4.6
Sep 7, 2017

Neat Video plug-ins have been updated to version 4.6. Among the changes are generic noise profiles, second revision of the Premiere plug-in, support for new versions of video editing applications and GPU models, as well as other improvements:

Added a set of generic noise profiles.

A new set of generic noise profiles is intended to help preparing a noise profile in a situation when video contains no frames and areas suitable for analysis by Auto Profile

Added new Second Revision plug-in for Premiere.

New Second Revision plug-in for Premiere uses the newer API of Premiere to overcome bugs of old API of Premiere that caused the following problems:
problems with cut/trimmed clips (incorrect input frames supplied by Premiere)
problems with adjustment layers (incorrect input frames supplied by Premiere)
Notes:
The newer API (and therefore new plug-in) has some limitations of its own: it is necessary to manually prepare sample frames (by clicking a new button) before opening the plug-in window.
Second Revision plug-in is installed separately from the regular plug-in and will not automatically replace it in existing projects.
Second Revision plug-in for Premiere may supersede the regular plug-in in the future.
Added support for new versions of OFX host applications:
Foundry Nuke 11 (Windows, Mac, Linux)
BMD DaVinci Resolve / Resolve Studio 14 beta (Windows, Mac, Linux)
BMD Fusion Studio 9 (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Added support for new version of Magix Vegas Pro:
Magix Vegas Pro 15
Added support for new version of Pinnacle Studio:
Pinnacle Studio 21
Added support for new AMD GPUs.

Windows/Linux:
AMD Radeon RX 560 / 570 / 580
AMD Radeon Pro 555 / 560 / 570 / 575 / 580
Mac OS X:
AMD Radeon RX 460 / 470 / 480 / 560 / 570 / 580


Neat Video v4.5
Feb 8, 2017

Neat Video 4.5 makes noise profiling more accurate and helps users to obtain optimum filtration results. This free update (for Neat Video 4 license-holders) offers new and improved noise profiling tools and functionality, as well as enhanced, simplified filter-tuning. It also provides more hardware compatibility for AMD GPUs and adds support for new video-editing applications.

More accurate profiling, with enhanced tools

Version 4.5 offers new tools and functions that help you to create more accurate noise profiles.

A new Profile Assist viewer mode offers a visually enhanced view of the noise within the frame, which helps to quickly identify the area with the strongest noise and the least amount of details.

Version 4.5 allows you to select larger areas for profiling, when available.
Using larger areas makes the profiling of lower frequency noise more accurate. This is particularly useful for large frame formats such as 4K.

Furthermore, the update improves the processing of Very Low and Ultra Low frequencies when using small areas for profiling — increasing accuracy in these ranges.
New features for quick pinpointing of the best filter settings

Neat Video 4.5 has also simplified the process of tuning the noise filters and provided enhanced visual preview tools to achieve the optimum results.

A new Preview Assist viewer mode.
This mode presents a specially enhanced preview emphasizing weak details. Helping you fine-tune the filter settings in such a way as to preserve such details while still reducing the noise.

A new Noise Level Tuning Assist tool.
This tool allows to tweak the Temporal Noise Level using a visually enhanced preview to achieve better results.

A new Slow Shutter Tuning Assist tool.
For clips with repeated frames (or repeated noise), this new assist tool helps you to find the right settings of the Slow Shutter mode using a specially enhanced preview.

A new Spatial Filter Tuning Assist tool.
Neat Video 4.5 also includes the Spatial Filter Tuning Assist tool that helps to adjust the Spatial Filter settings using a visually enhanced preview.

It is now possible to separately assign the Quality Mode for the temporal filter and spatial filter.
This may reduce processing time with minimal effect on quality in some circumstances.

In cases when no frame is initially selected, the plug-in will now automatically select a suitable frame from the beginning of the clip. This helps avoid accidental inaccurate noise profile analysis and gives you one less thing to think about.
Improved compatibility and hardware support

Neat Video 4.5 offers improved hardware support for AMD GPUs.
Please refer to the the full history of changes (links below) for more information.

For OpenFX users, this update adds support for:
FXHOME HitFilm 2017 / 4 (Windows and Mac)
Quantel Rio 4 (Windows)
DustBuster+ 9 (Windows)
Neat Video plug-in for Magix adds support for:
Magix Movie Edit Pro 2017
Magix Video Deluxe 2017
Version 4.5 now supports VirtualDub FilterMod.
Other improvements

Lastly, this release:
includes multiple improvements in the GUI,
improves support for Unicode symbols,
fixes several minor bugs.


Neat Video v4.2

All Neat Video plug-ins for all supported host applications
+ Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs: GeForce GTX 1060/1070/1080

Note: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 1.3 and below are no longer supported.
Only GPUs with Compute Capability 2.0 and higher can be utilized by Neat Video 4.2.

Windows versions of Neat Video plug-ins

+ Added support for new AMD GPUs: Radeon RX 460/470/480

Note: due to changes in AMD drivers, some older non-GCN GPUs are no longer supported. In particular, Neat Video no longer supports
Radeon HD 5xxx/6xxx cards and other devices based on the following chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman

The full list of GPU series supported by Neat Video 4.2 on Windows is: Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti, Bonaire, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, Ellesmere, Baffin

Neat Video for Final Cut

* Note about GPU acceleration: due to changes in NVIDIA Toolkit and OS X OpenCL framework Neat Video GPU acceleration is now only supported in 64-bit applications. This means that Neat Video 4.2 will only be able to utilize NVIDIA or AMD GPU in FCPX, but not in Final Cut Pro 7/6.

Neat Video OFX plug-ins
+ Added support for the following OFX-compatible hosts:

Foundry Nuke 10 (Windows, Mac, Linux)
BMD DaVinci Resolve 12.5 and DaVinci Resolve Studio 12.5 (Windows, Mac, Linux)
BMD Fusion Studio 8 (Windows and Mac)

Neat Video plug-ins for After Effects
+ Added support for Adobe After Effects CC 2015.3

Neat Video plug-ins for Premiere
+ Added support for Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015.3

Neat Video plug-in for Magix
+ Added support for Magix Video Pro X (X8)

- Several minor bugs have been fixed in all plug-ins



Neat Video v4.1

All Neat Video plug-ins for supported host applications
* "Auto Profile" function has been improved to find better areas for analysis. Using more suitable areas leads to more accurate noise reduction.

+ Several new controls have been added in filter settings:

"Temporal Filter": "Amount" has been added to control its strength
"Dust and Scratches": "Half reduction" and "Full reduction" modes have been replaced with "Amount" allowing for more flexible adjustments
"Normal" and "Agressive" modes of the filter have been added

* Improved performance of "Dust and Scratches" in presence of repeated frames, on scene changes and in the beginning and end of a clip
* Several improvements in GUI

* Improved compatibility with new versions of operating systems:

Improved support for Mac OS X 10.11
Improved installers for Mac OS X
Added support for Retina displays of modern Mac machines

Added support for Windows 10

* Added support for several new AMD GPUs:

Window and Linux

AMD Radeon R9 Fury / Nano / Fury X / Fury X2
AMD Radeon R9 380 / 390 / 390X
AMD Radeon R9 255 / 250X
AMD Radeon R7 360 / 370
AMD Radeon R7 265

Newer AMD Catalyst 15.7.1+ drivers are now supported
Mac OS X:

AMD Radeon R9 R9 M290 / M290X / M295X / M370X / M380 / M390 / M395 / M395X

Neat Video for Final Cut

* Improved compatibility with the latest versions of FCP X, Motion 5 and Compressor

Neat Video OFX plug-ins
+ Added support for the following OFX-compatible hosts:

Quantel Pablo Rio 2.1.4+
Natron 2
IDT Vision Motion Studio 2.12+
DaVinci Resolve 12 (Windows, Mac, Linux)
DustBuster+ 8 / 7 (Windows, Mac)

+ New option to use a specific scan type by default

Neat Video plug-ins for After Effects
* Improved compatibility with Adobe Media Encoder CC 2015
Neat Video plug-ins for Premiere
+ Added support for Premiere Elements 14
* Improved compatibility with Adobe Media Encoder CC 2015

* Added a workaround for the known Premiere bug related to using Trim/Razor

Neat Video plug-in for Pinnacle Studio
+ Added support for Pinnacle Studio 19
+ New option to use a specific scan type by default

Neat Video plug-in for Vegas
+ Added support for stereo/3D video processing in Vegas

- Copy&pasting an instance of "Reduce Noise v4" effect from one clip to another in a Vegas project did not work correctly, fixed

Neat Video plug-in for Magix
+ Added support for Magix Video Deluxe 2016
+ New option to use a specific scan type by default

Neat Video plug-in for VirtualDub
+ New option to use a specific scan type by default

- Several minor bugs have been fixed in all plug-ins


Neat Video v4

Higher quality of noise reduction

More accurate processing in scenes with changing luminance or chrominance: fade in/out, camera auto gain control, etc.

"Very Low" and "Ultra Low" frequency ranges added to the set of frequency components that can be separately targeted by the spatial noise filter

"Dust and Scratches" filter to remove film scratches, film dust, impulse interference. Read more

"Slow Shutter" mode for video containing repeated frames
(clips shot in "slow shutter" or "night" mode, artificially increased frame rate, etc.). Read more

Improved sharpening quality: less halos, sharper edges

"High Quality" mode for better detail preservation and sharper image
(at the cost of reduced processing speed: 1.5-4 times slower)

"Artifact Removal" filter to remove digital artifacts — impulse noise typically introduced by video compression
(dots and small lines that are not fully removed by regular noise filters of Neat Video)

Enhanced "Edge Smoothing" function

"Mix with Original" setting to enable mixing of the processed and original frames
(useful when some of the original noise must be preserved in the video)

Optimized workflow

Several source frames accessible directly in plug-in window provide a choice of frame for initial profiling and fine-tuning

Overall noise levels of the current selection and of the whole current profile are displayed in "Device Noise Profile" panel (in Advanced Mode)
(quick evaluation of the noise level helps to find the most suitable area for analysis)

Better grouping of filter settings
Filter modules can be enabled/disabled individually to evaluate effect of each module on the overall result

Improved preview takes all temporal and spatial filters into account
This allows to adjust filters individually and in combination as well as to avoid roundtrips to host application for checking the final results

"Variants" of filtration to visually compare results achieved with different filter settings

Multi-step Undo/Redo for filter settings

New collection of filter presets with a detailed description of each preset including specification of key settings, purpose, applicability, recommendations for use and possible side effects

Estimation of processing speed and optimization of performance settings can now be done directly from "Filter Settings" panel.
This facilitates optimizing for a specific clip and filtration parameters

Options to set up the default noise profile and filter preset (in Neat Video Preferences)

Option for independent open/save folders for profiles and presets (in Neat Video Preferences)

Faster processing and more responsive GUI

Preview is optimized to update faster when filter settings are adjusted

"Skip Neat Video Processing" option to temporarily disable all instances of Neat Video filters to speed up editing in the host application.
Noise reduction is then not applied and the host application works significantly faster, which is especially useful in FCPX.
Neat Video processing can be globally re-enabled when necessary, for example right before the final render. It is also automatically re-enabled by a restart of the host application.

Multiple optimizations have allowed to preserve the speed of processing despite its greater complexity
(as compared with the older Neat Video 3)

Better support for systems with a large number of CPU cores (32 and above)

Mac OS X: Optimized for dual GPU systems (such as new MacPro's)
Significantly more efficient use of dual GPUs for large frame sizes (4k, 5k, 6k, 8k, etc.)

CUDA Compute Capability 5.0 is now supported on Mac OS too allowing Neat Video to take advantage of the latest NVIDIA GPUs
Notes:
1. Due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 1.0 and 1.1 are no longer supported
2. Mac OS X: NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA Capability 5.0 are only supported in 64-bit applications due to a limitation of the CUDA driver (please refer to known issues)

Other improvements

Support for HiDPI-modes in Windows and Linux (when the host application supports that)

Option to automatically check for for availability of software updates (in Neat Video Preferences)

Improved progress indicator (easier to see, smoother movement, more accurate)

Numerous minor GUI improvements throughout the plug-in

Several bugs have been fixed

After Effects

Added support for After Effects CC 2015 (Windows, Mac)
Support for 32-bit versions of After Effects has been discontinued

In After Effects CC 2014 and newer, Neat Video will work correcly even when placed after other effects applied to the same clip

Added support for linear input data for 32-bit per channel (float) color depth
(user can manually specify the input data type in Neat Video window)

Premiere

Added support for Premiere CC 2015 (Windows, Mac)
Support for 32-bit versions of Premiere has been discontinued

OFX Hosts

Added support for Nuke 9 (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Support for 32-bit versions of OFX hosts has been discontinued

Magix

New version of Neat Video designed specifically for Magix host applications:
· Magix Video Pro X7 / X6 / X5 / X4 / X3
· Magix Movie Edit Pro 2015 / 2014 / / 2013 / MX
· Magix Video Deluxe 2015 / 2014 / 2013 / MX

Pinnacle Studio

The new Pinnacle Studio 18.5.1 (and newer) has been supported by Neat Video v4 plug-in for Pinnacle Studio
Support for older versions of Pinnacle Studio has been discontinued for several technical reasons



Neat Video v3.6

All Neat Video plug-ins for supported host applications
* Window and Linux versions:

Updated to CUDA 6: added support for new NVIDIA GPUs with Compute Capability 5.0 (such as GeForce GTX 750 Ti and more)
Improved error reporting of GPU-specific issues

* Mac versions:

Improved support for the coming Mac OS X 10.10
Added support for some new AMD GPUs based on Pitcairn, Tahiti and Hawaii chip series, for example, R9 270, R9 280, R9 290 etc.
- Several minor bugs have been fixed



Neat Video for Final Cut

The recommended version of FCP X is now 10.1.3 or newer
Several cosmetic improvements in GUI of the plug-in
Improved compatibility with Final Cut Express


Neat Video OFX plug-ins
+ Added support for the following OFX-compatible hosts:

DaVinci Resolve 11 / 10 (Windows, Mac, Linux)
SGO Mistika 8.2+ / Mamba 2 (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Nuke 8 (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Scratch 8 (Windows, Mac)
DustBuster+ 6 (Windows, Mac)



Neat Video plug-ins for After Effects
+ Added support for After Effects CC 2014



Neat Video plug-ins for Premiere
+ Added support for Premiere CC 2014


Neat Video v3.5

All Neat Video plug-ins for supported host applications
Windows and Linux:

Added support for new AMD GPUs:
AMD Radeon HD 7790;
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: Bonaire, Hainan, Hawaii

The following AMD/ATI GPUs remain supported as well:
ATI Radeon HD 57xx/58xx/59xx;
AMD Radeon HD 67xx/68xx/69xx;
AMD Radeon HD 77xx/78xx/79xx;
Another AMD/ATI GPU based on one of the following chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman, Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti

Several minor bugs have been fixed

Mac OSX:

Added support for new Mac OS X 10.9

Added support for new AMD GPUs: FirePro D300/D500/D700
Improved support for AMD GPUs conforming to the Graphics Core Next Architecture

Improved plug-in installer:
Checking CUDA driver during installation
Checking for running copies of host applications

Several minor bugs have been fixed




Neat Video for Final Cut

Several adjustments for FCP X 10.0.9
The recommended version of FCP X is now 10.0.9 or newer


Neat Video for Premiere (Windows, Mac)

Added support for Premiere Elements 12


Neat Video AVX

Added support for Avid DS 11 / 10.5


Neat Video OFX

Added experimental support for DaVinci Resolve 10 (Windows, Mac)
Added initial support for upcoming Nuke 8


Neat Video for Edius

Optimized rendering in Edius: overall project render time becomes 15-45% shorter (depending on project and filter settings)


Neat Video v3.4

All Neat Video plug-ins for supported host applications
* Performance optimizations for AMD/ATI GPUs, speedups in filter modes with larger temporal radiuses:

in CPU+GPU mode: up to 25% (Windows), 15% (Linux) and 10% (Mac OSX)
in GPU-only mode: up to 65% (Windows), 45% (Linux) and 30% (Mac OSX)
* Performance optimizations for NVIDIA GPUs, speedups in filter modes with larger temporal radiuses and higher bitdepths:

in CPU+GPU mode: up to 15%
in GPU-only mode: up to 20%
+ Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA Compute Capability 3.5 (such as GeForce GTX Titan and Tesla K20)

+ Mac versions: Added support for new Mac-compatible GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac

* Window versions: improved reliability on systems with multiple OpenCL platforms (AMD/ATI and Intel)

+ New Navigator panel to quickly locate areas for profiling and preview using a thumbnail display

- Mac versions: plug-ins could crash when using multiple OpenCL GPUs on MacPro, fixed

- Several minor bugs have been fixed


Neat Video AVX plug-ins
+ The first versions of Neat Video for AVX-compatible hosts:

Media Composer 7 / 6.5 / 6 (Windows, Mac)
Symphony 7 / 6.5 / 6 (Windows, Mac)
News Cutter 11 / 10.5 / 10 (Windows)
+ All basic and advanced functionality of Neat Video is now available directly in AVX hosts:

Advanced Noise Reduction to reduce noise and grain in video clips
Both intra-frame (spatial) and temporal filtration
Automatic noise analyzer to adapt the plug-in to any video sources
Smart sharpening filter to make video look sharper without amplification of noise
CUDA and OpenCL acceleration to speed up processing using computation-capable GPUs
Support for high-bitdepth rendering (supported by the host applications)




Neat Video plug-ins for After Effects
+ Added support for After Effects CC



Neat Video plug-ins for Premiere
+ Added support for Premiere CC



Neat Video plug-ins for Edius

+ Added support for Edius Pro 7 (64-bit)
+ Added support for Edius Neo 3.5+

* Improved accuracy of color space transformations for frame data received from Edius

- Edius GUI could freeze after opening Neat Video as a sub-plug-in of Chrominance, fixed
- Plug-in's window could be hidden behind when other setup dialogs were opened in Edius, fixed


Neat Video OpenFX plug-ins

+ Added support for Nuke 7, Scratch 7, DustBuster+ 5


Neat Video v3.3

Neat Video plug-in for Edius
+ The first version of Neat Video for Edius
+ Neat Video noise reduction is now directly available in Edius 6.5
+ All features available in other versions of Neat Video are also included in Edius plug-in


Neat Video v3.3

Neat Video plug-ins for OpenFX hosts (Windows), (Linux); for Sony Vegas, for VirtualDub, for Pinnacle Studio
+ Added support for AMD/ATI GPUs
(GPU acceleration is now possible with both NVIDIA and AMD/ATI cards)

The following AMD/ATI GPUs are supported:
- ATI Radeon HD 57xx/58xx/59xx;
- AMD Radeon HD 67xx/68xx/69xx;
- AMD Radeon HD 77xx/78xx/79xx;
- Other AMD/ATI GPUs based on one of the following chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman, Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti

* Several cosmetic improvements in GUI
* Minor corrections in the reduced brightness color theme

- Product registration was not always preserved reliably, fixed
- Several minor bugs have been fixed



Neat Video plug-ins for OpenFX hosts (Mac)
+ Added support for AMD/ATI GPUs
(GPU acceleration is now possible with both NVIDIA and AMD/ATI cards)

The following AMD/ATI GPUs are supported:
- ATI Radeon HD 5770/5870;
- AMD Radeon HD 6750M/6770M/6970M;
- Some other models of AMD/ATI cards (please directly try the plug-in or contact support to verify)

* Improved support for OS X 10.8

* More accurate GPU speed measurements (in Optimize and Benchmark)
* Several cosmetic improvements in GUI
* Minor corrections in the reduced brightness color theme

- Product registration was not always preserved reliably, fixed
- Several minor bugs have been fixed




Neat Video v3.3

Neat Video plug-ins for After Effects (Mac) and for Premiere (Mac)
+ Added support for AMD/ATI GPUs
(GPU acceleration is now possible with both NVIDIA and AMD/ATI cards)

The following AMD/ATI GPUs are supported:
- ATI Radeon HD 5770/5870;
- AMD Radeon HD 6750M/6770M/6970M;
- Some other models of AMD/ATI cards (please directly try the plug-in or contact support to verify)

+ Added support for Premiere Elements 11 (in plug-in for Premiere)

* Improved support for OS X 10.8

* More accurate GPU speed measurements (in Optimize and Benchmark)
* Several cosmetic improvements in GUI
* Minor corrections in the reduced brightness color theme

- Product registration was not always preserved reliably, fixed
- Several minor bugs have been fixed


Neat Video plug-ins for After Effects (Windows) and for Premiere (Windows)
+ Added support for AMD/ATI GPUs
(GPU acceleration is now possible with both NVIDIA and AMD/ATI cards)

The following AMD/ATI GPUs are supported:
- ATI Radeon HD 57xx/58xx/59xx;
- AMD Radeon HD 67xx/68xx/69xx;
- AMD Radeon HD 77xx/78xx/79xx;
- Other AMD/ATI GPUs based on one of the following chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman, Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti

+ Added support for Premiere Elements 11 (in plug-in for Premiere)

* Several cosmetic improvements in GUI
* Minor corrections in the reduced brightness color theme

- Product registration was not always preserved reliably, fixed
- Several minor bugs have been fixed





Neat Video v3.2

All Neat Video plug-ins
* Updated to CUDA 4.2: GTX 680 and newer GPUs are supported; improved performance of GPU render

* Additional optimizations of filters for multi-core CPUs and GPUs

+ Color themes: normal and reduced brightness options, in Preferences

- Several bugs have been fixed


Neat Video plug-in for Final Cut
+ Added support for FCP X 10.0.4, 10.0.5; FCP 7 and 6 remain supported as well


Neat Video plug-in for After Effects (Win, Mac)
+ Added support for Adobe After Effects CS6

* Optimized rendering in After Effects: overall project render time becomes about 10-15% shorter


Neat Video plug-in for Premiere (Win, Mac)

+ Added support for Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

* Optimized rendering in Premiere Pro: overall project render time becomes about 10-15% shorter



Neat Video v3.1

All Neat Video plug-ins
* Updated to new CUDA 4 (improving compatibility with several NVIDIA GPUs)
* Improved support for new GPUs (Compute Capability 2.x)
* Optimized use of memory in GPU processing, making rendering more stable and in some cases faster
* Improved stability of GPU processing for large frames (such as 8k)

* Improved accuracy of color channel processing in temporal filter; colors in fast-changing scenes are now preserved better

* Improved behavior of Neat Video viewer when using Apple Magic Mouse (in Mac OSX)

- In some rare cases, using CPU and GPU simultanteously could produce artifacts, fixed
- Several bugs in GPU-based processing have been fixed

- Number of CPU cores could be determined incorrecly in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, fixed


Neat Video plug-in for Final Cut (Mac)

* Improved support for Motion 5.0.1

- In some cases, registration was not preserved after restart, fixed
- Rendering a project with mixed frame sizes could be unstable, fixed
- Rendering using Compressor could disable noise reduction in the output, fixed


Neat Video OpenFX plug-in (Windows, Mac, Linux)

+ Added support for HS-ART Dustbuster (Windows, Mac OSX); the minumum required version is Dustbuster 4.5
+ Added support for Assimilate Scratch (Windows, Mac OSX); the minumum required version is Scratch 6.1


Neat Video plug-in for Premiere (Win, Mac)

+ Added support for Adobe Premiere Elements 10
+ In Premiere Elements, Neat Video thumbnail added to the gallery of effects

* Improved stability in complex projects in Premiere CS5.5 and Premiere Elements
* Optimized use of memory resources when running multiple instances of the filter



Neat Video v3.0

Improved quality of noise reduction

Improved quality of temporal noise filter
Improved algorithms better detect and preserve details in filtered video data and thus improve the overall visual quality.

Improved accuracy of Adaptive Filtration
Adjusting to the changing noise done by Adaptive Filtration option is more precise now, which leads to more accurate noise reduction.


Higher performance: x2 faster due to CUDA-acceleration

Faster noise reduction using modern CUDA-compatible GPUs
For example, enabling NVIDIA GTX 470 or GTX 285 on an i7-based computer makes Neat Video around x2 faster.
The speedup may be higher with i5 or Core2 Duo machines or with faster CUDA GPUs.

CPUs and GPUs working together
Neat Video can use both CPUs and GPUs at the same time for faster processing

Multiple GPU support
Neat Video works even faster with two or more CUDA GPUs

Optimization of performance settings for multi-core, multi-CPU and multi-GPU systems
Built-in Optimizer in Neat Video Preferences
Built-in Benchmark to measure processing speed with specific hardware and performance settings


Higher performance (more): x2 faster due to improved filter algorithms

Additional performance optimizations in filter algorithms to achieve higher rendering speed
Rendering is around x2 faster than in the version 2 (using CPU alone, even without CUDA)

CUDA-based acceleration and filter optimizations combined together enable up to x4 faster rendering as compared with Neat Video v2.


OpenFX for Linux is now supported too

In addition to the OpenFX plug-ins for Windows and Mac OSX hosts (Nuke, Fusion), Neat Video is now also available as an OpenFX plug-in for Linux host applications (Nuke for Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit).


Neat Video v2.7

Neat Video plug-in for Final Cut (Mac)
+ Added support for new 64-bit version of Motion: Motion 5
(FCP X itself is not yet supported due to bugs and missing features in the initial release of FCP X; to be changed later)

+ Control in Preferences to adjust the number of CPU cores used for rendering

* Improved compatibility with non-RGB rendering modes in FCP

- Adaptive Filtration option did not always work correctly, fixed
- Frames rendered by Neat Video in Motion sometimes froze on one frame, fixed
- Several minor bug fixes



Neat Video v2.7

Neat Video plug-in for After Effects (Win, Mac)
+ Added support for After Effects CS5.5

+ Control in Preferences to adjust the number of CPU cores used for rendering

- Black frame or crash when stacked with certain other filters, fixed
- Several minor bug fixes

Neat Video plug-in for Premiere (Win, Mac)

+ Added support for Premiere CS5.5

+ Control in Preferences to adjust the number of CPU cores used for rendering

- Semi-transparent transitions were not treated correctly, fixed
- Stacking two instances of the filter caused a crash, fixed
- Several minor bug fixes


Neat Video v2.6

Neat Video plug-in for VirtualDub
+ Re-designed user interface of Neat Video plug-in window

+ Improved image viewer
+ several alternative viewer modes are now available
+ adjustable viewer brightness to make noise in very dark or very bright areas more visible
+ improved preview

+ New noise profile equalizer in Advanced mode

+ The first 64-bit version of Neat Video for VirtualDub 64-bit


Neat Video v2.6

Neat Video plug-in for Pinnacle Studio
+ Re-designed user interface of Neat Video plug-in window

+ Improved image viewer
+ several alternative viewer modes are now available
+ adjustable viewer brightness to make noise in very dark or very bright areas more visible
+ improved preview

+ New noise profile equalizer in Advanced mode

* Improved compatibility with Pinnacle Studio 14



Neat Video v2.6

Neat Video OpenFX plug-in (Mac)
+ Support for 64-bit version of Nuke (6.1v2) is added; both 64-bit and 32-bit Nuke for Mac OSX is now supported


Neat Video v2.6

Neat Video plug-in for Sony Vegas
+ "No Lag Mode" option in temporal filter settings: a workaround (compensating for Vegas functional limitation) to avoid lag in rendered video stream and delay in the start of clip

+ changes in 32-bit version:

* Re-designed user interface of Neat Video plug-in window
* Re-designed noise profile equalizer in Advanced mode
* Improved image viewer with several modes and automated preview

+ changes in 64-bit version:

* New viewer modes are added
* Several improvements in GUI
* Additional performance optimizations
- Several minor bugs are fixed

+ looks and features of 32-bit and 64-bit versions are now fully synchronized
+ 64-bit version is now available in all three editions: Demo, Home, Pro



Neat Video v2.6

Neat Video plug-in for Final Cut (Mac)
* New viewer modes are added
* Several improvements in GUI

* Additional performance optimizations
- Several minor bugs are fixed


Neat Video v2.6

Neat Video OpenFX plug-in (Mac)
+ The version of Neat Video OpenFX for Mac OSX:
+ Neat Video noise reduction is now directly available in Nuke 6 / 5 for Mac
+ All features available in other versions of Neat Video are also included in OpenFX plug-in


Neat Video v2.6

Neat Video OpenFX plug-in (Win)
+ The first version of Neat Video as an OpenFX plug-in for OpenFX-compatible hosts:
+ Neat Video noise reduction is now directly available in such applications as Nuke, Fusion
+ Neat Video OpenFX plug-in may also work in other OpenFX-compatible hosts
+ Both 32-bit and 64-bit hosts are supported
+ All features available in other versions of Neat Video are also included in OpenFX plug-in


Neat Video v2.6

Neat Video plug-in for After Effects (Win)
+ The first 64-bit version of Neat Video for 64-bit After Effects CS5;
now both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of After Effects are supported

+ Re-designed user interface of Neat Video plug-in window
+ Improved image viewer:

+ several alternative viewer modes are now available
+ adjustable viewer brightness to make noise in very dark or very bright areas more visible
+ preview is automatically prepared and updated, either in the whole visible frame area or in manually-selected area
+ new noise profile equalizer in Advanced mode

* Performance optimizations
* Improved compatibility with Windows 7

Neat Video plug-in for After Effects (Mac)
+ The first 64-bit version of Neat Video for 64-bit After Effects CS5;
now both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of After Effects are supported

* New image viewer modes are added
* Many improvements in GUI
* Performance optimizations

* Improved compatibility with OSX 10.6

Neat Video plug-in for Premiere (Win)

+ The first 64-bit version of Neat Video for 64-bit Premiere Pro CS5;
now both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Premiere are supported

+ Re-designed user interface of Neat Video plug-in window
+ Improved image viewer:
+ several alternative viewer modes are now available
+ adjustable viewer brightness to make noise in very dark or very bright areas more visible
+ preview is automatically prepared and updated, either in the whole visible frame area or in manually-selected area
+ new noise profile equalizer in Advanced mode

* Performance optimizations
* Improved compatibility with Windows 7

Neat Video plug-in for Premiere (Mac)

+ The first 64-bit version of Neat Video for 64-bit Premiere Pro CS5;
now both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Premiere are supported

* New image viewer modes are added
* Many improvements in GUI
* Performance optimizations

* Improved compatibility with OSX 10.6



Neat Video v2.55

Neat Video plug-in for Final Cut (Mac)

+ Compatibility with new Final Cut Studio 3 (Final Cut Pro 7 and Motion 4)

* Improved memory management leading to much more stable rendering in complex projects
* Optimized frame processing, reduced load on Final Cut, faster rendering

* Several improvements in GUI and diagnostic messages
- Several minor bugs and cosmetic issues corrected


Neat Video v2.55

Neat Video plug-in for After Effects (Mac)

+ Graphical noise profile equalizer is now available in Advanced mode
+ Manual fine-tuning of noise profile is now also available

+ Improved viewer
+ several alternative viewer modes are now available
+ adjustable viewer brightness to make noise in very dark or very bright areas more visible

* Optimizations and efficiency improvements in the rendering engine
- Several minor bugs and incompatibilities fixed


Neat Video v2.5

The first version of Neat Video Pro plug-in for Sony Vegas Pro 64-bit

+ Noise reduction features originally introduced in the Neat Video plug-in for the classic 32-bit versions of Sony Vegas Pro are now directly available in the 64-bit versions of Sony Vegas Pro: 9 and 8.1 64-bit
(64-bit plug-in is a part of Neat Video Pro for Vegas)


Neat Video v2.5

The first release of Neat Video plug-in for Premiere (Mac)

+ Advanced noise reduction features available in other versions of Neat Video are now directly available in Premiere (Mac)


Neat Video v2.5

The first release of Neat Video plug-in for Final Cut (Mac)

+ Neat Video noise reduction features originally introduced in Windows versions of Neat Video are now also available on Mac in Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Motion


Neat Video v2.5

The first release of Neat Video plug-in for After Effects (Mac)

+ Neat Video noise reduction features originally introduced in Windows versions of Neat Video are now directly available for Mac users who run After Effects CS4 / CS3 (Mac)


Neat Video v2.22

Neat Video plug-in for After Effects

+ Added support for Adobe After Effects CS4

- Several corrections and bug fixes


Neat Video plug-in for Premiere

+ Added support for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

- Several corrections and bug fixes


Neat Video plug-in for Pinnacle

* Improved support for Pinnacle Studio 11.1

- Several corrections and bug fixes


Neat Video v2.21

Neat Video plug-in for Premiere
+ Added support for Premiere Elements 7.0

* Several corrections in GUI and documentation

- A minor bug that potentially could reduce rendering quality in some cases, fixed

- Plug-in could crash on specific combinations of sequences, fixed



Neat Video plug-in for After Effects
+ Added compatibility with Eyeon Fusion 5.3 (available only in Pro plug-in)

* Several corrections in GUI and documentation

- A minor bug that potentially could reduce rendering quality in some cases, fixed

- After Effect project using Neat Video could crash when purging all data, fixed



Neat Video plug-in for Pinnacle Studio
+ Added support for the latest version of Studio: Pinnacle Studio 12

* Several corrections in GUI and documentation




Neat Video v2.2

Neat Video plug-in for After Effects

+ Added compatibility with Eyeon Fusion 5.1, 5.2
(available only in Pro plug-in, since working in Fusion requires plug-in to support 16 bits per channel bitdepth)

* Improved compatibility with 32 bits per channel bitdepth projects (in Pro plug-in only);
(previous versions could not work in such projects; this version works in 32-bit projects in compatibility mode)

* Improved Auto Profiling and Auto Fine-Tuning

* Improved memory and resource management in plug-in
* Improved stability of rendering with Adaptive Filtration enabled

- A minor bug in the Preview function inside the plug-in, fixed


Neat Video plug-in for Premiere

* Improved stability of plug-in in Premiere Pro CS3

* Added support for Premiere Elements 4.0

* Improved Auto Profiling and Auto Fine-Tuning

* Improved memory and resource management in plug-in
* Improved stability of rendering with Adaptive Filtration enabled

- A minor bug in the Preview function inside the plug-in, fixed


Neat Video plug-in for VirtualDub

* Improved Auto Profiling and Auto Fine-Tuning

* Improved memory and resource management in plug-in
* Improved stability of rendering with Adaptive Filtration enabled

- A minor bug in the Preview function inside the plug-in, fixed


Neat Video plug-in for Sony Vegas

* Improved Auto Profiling and Auto Fine-Tuning

* Improved memory and resource management in plug-in
* Improved stability of rendering with Adaptive Filtration enabled

* Neat Video user guide is now also accessible via Vegas's "?" button

- A minor bug in the Preview function inside the plug-in, fixed


Neat Video plug-in for Pinnacle Studio

* Improved Auto Profiling and Auto Fine-Tuning

* Improved memory and resource management in plug-in
* Improved stability of rendering with Adaptive Filtration enabled

* Neat Video will now recommend to enable full-resolution preview when that option is disabled in Pinnacle setup; using half-resolution preview may reduce Neat Video's profiling and filtration quality so using full-resolution is recommended

* Neat Video user guide is now also accessible via Pinnacle Studio's "?" ("Help for this effect") button

* Incorrect frames were shown in Neat Video plug-in on clips with fractional frame rates and on splitted clips (caused by Pinnacle Studio); a partial workaround implemented; if you receive an incorrect frame in the Neat Video plug-in window please use the following method:
close the Neat Video plug-in window;
click "OK" in the Neat Video Configuration window;
click the "Edit Neat Video Noise Reduction settings" button to re-open Neat Video.

- On splitted clips, incorrect frames were rendered by the filter, fixed


Neat Video v2.1 for Pinnacle Studio

The first release of Neat Video plug-in for Pinnacle Studio
+ All features available in versions of Neat Video for other plug-in hosts are now directly available for Pinnacle Studio users



Neat Video v2.1

Neat Video plug-in for After Effects

- Incorrect processing of several pixels in the bottom of each frame in case of certain non-standard frame sizes, fixed
- A minor bug in the plug-in viewer, fixed


Neat Video plug-in for Premiere

* Improved support for interlaced video clips: higher accuracy of noise reduction

* Improved support for Maximum Bit Depth rendering (when that option is enabled in Premiere project settings); (in Pro plug-in);

* Improved memory utilization in the plug-in

- Incorrect processing of several pixels in the bottom of each frame in case of certain non-standard frame sizes, fixed
- A minor bug in the plug-in viewer, fixed


Neat Video plug-in for VirtualDub

- Incorrect processing of several pixels in the bottom of each frame in case of certain non-standard frame sizes, fixed
- A minor bug in the plug-in viewer, fixed


Neat Video plug-in for Sony Vegas

* Improved support for projects that include interlaced clips with mixed aspect ratios

- Incorrect processing of several pixels in the bottom of each frame in case of certain non-standard frame sizes, fixed
- A minor bug in the plug-in viewer, fixed


Neat Video v2.0

Neat Video plug-in for After Effects

+ Added support for Adobe After Effects 8.0 CS3

* Improved profiling:
Auto Profile now selects better areas for noise analysis producing higher-quality profiles leading to better filtration

Neat Video now can build noise profiles using smaller frame areas;
this is useful when the video clip has small frame size and contains only small featureless areas suitable for profiling

* Increased speed of temporal and intra-frame filtration
* Improved memory utilization in the plug-in
* Improvements in the internal image viewer

- A minor bug in the progress bar made GUI freeze in some rare cases, fixed
- Preview in certain frame areas with specific filter settings caused a crash, fixed


Neat Video plug-in for Premiere

* Added support for Adobe Premiere Pro 3.0 CS3
* Added support for Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0

* Improved profiling:
Auto Profile now selects better areas for noise analysis producing higher-quality profiles leading to better filtration

Neat Video now can build noise profiles using smaller frame areas;
this is useful when the video clip has small frame size and contains only small featureless areas suitable for profiling

* Automatic detection of video scan type - progressive or interlaced - to select the best processing method depending on type of footage and workflow; internal viewer in the plug-in will display either one field or full frame from the video clip depending on the scan type

* Increased speed of temporal and intra-frame filtration
* Improved memory utilization in the plug-in
* Improvements in the internal image viewer

- A minor bug in the progress bar made GUI freeze in some rare cases, fixed
- Preview in certain frame areas with specific filter settings caused a crash, fixed
- Rare crashes in cases when low quality preview mode was used in Premiere, fixed


Neat Video plug-in for VirtualDub

* Improved profiling:
Auto Profile now selects better areas for noise analysis producing higher-quality profiles leading to better filtration

Neat Video now can build noise profiles using smaller frame areas;
this is useful when the video clip has small frame size and contains only small featureless areas suitable for profiling

* Explicit selection of video scan type - progressive or interlaced - to select the best processing method depending on type of footage and workflow

* Increased speed of temporal and intra-frame filtration
* Added support for Adaptive Filtration to AviSynth interface

* Improved memory utilization in the plug-in
* Improvements in the internal image viewer

- A minor bug in the progress bar made GUI freeze in some rare cases, fixed
- Preview in certain frame areas with specific filter settings caused a crash, fixed


Neat Video plug-in for Sony Vegas

* Improved profiling:
Auto Profile now selects better areas for noise analysis producing higher-quality profiles leading to better filtration

Neat Video now can build noise profiles using smaller frame areas;
this is useful when the video clip has small frame size and contains only small featureless areas suitable for profiling

* Explicit selection of video scan type - progressive or interlaced - to select the best processing method depending on type of footage and workflow

* Increased speed of temporal and intra-frame filtration
* Improved memory utilization in the plug-in

- Incorrect rendering of overlapped fading clips, fixed


Neat Video v1.5 for Sony Vegas

The first release of Neat Video plug-in for Sony Vegas
+ All features available in versions of Neat Video for other plug-in hosts are now directly available for Sony Vegas users


Neat Video v1.5

Neat Video plug-in for After Effects
+ Adaptive filtration: Neat Video can automatically adjust its filters to the changing noise in different parts of a video sequence; this enables more accurate noise reduction
+ Significantly improved temporal filter preserving more details and reducing more noise elements; this provides higher overall quality of filtered video data

* Increased speed of temporal filtration
* Improved memory utilization in the plug-in

- The plug-in crashed when its maximized window was closed, fixed

Neat Video plug-in for Premiere
+ Adaptive filtration: Neat Video can automatically adjust its filters to the changing noise in different parts of a video sequence; this enables more accurate noise reduction
+ Significantly improved temporal filter preserving more details and reducing more noise elements; this provides higher overall quality of filtered video data

* Increased speed of temporal filtration
* Improved memory utilization in the plug-in

- Several web links were not functional in the plug-in, fixed

Neat Video plug-in for VirtualDub
+ Adaptive filtration: Neat Video can automatically adjust its filters to the changing noise in different parts of a video sequence; this enables more accurate noise reduction
+ Significantly improved temporal filter preserving more details and reducing more noise elements; this provides higher overall quality of filtered video data

* Increased speed of temporal filtration
* Improved memory utilization in the plug-in



Neat Video v1.1

Neat Video plug-in for After Effects
+ Added support for After Effects 7.0

* Increased speed of temporal filtration

- Component viewer did not always show correct channel names with RGB working color space, fixed

Neat Video plug-in for Premiere
+ Added support for Premiere Pro 2.0
+ 16-bit support (available with Premiere Pro / Elements 2.0)

* Increased speed of temporal filtration
* Improved support for interlaced video data

- Component viewer did not always show correct channel names with RGB working color space, fixed
- Adjusting the intra-frame filter settings did not immediately affect preview in Premiere, fixed
(noise profiles built within Premiere projects with earlier versions of Neat Video plug-in for Premiere will have to be re-built)

Neat Video plug-in for VirtualDub
* Increased speed of temporal filtration
- Component viewer did not always show correct channel names with RGB working color space, fixed



Neat Video v1.01

Neat Video plug-in for After Effects
* Several minor improvements in the installer

Neat Video plug-in for Premiere
+ Added support for Premiere Elements 2.0
- Incorrect rendering in overlapping clip areas on multiprocessor systems, fixed

Neat Video plug-in for VirtualDub
+ Neat Video plug-in can now be used from AviSynth scripts
+ A section about using Neat Video in AviSynth scripts has been added to the user guide


Neat Video v1.0

The first release of Neat Video