faster software noise reduction solution

[syeager]

Who has a favorite video noise reduction software filter? I am currently using TMPGEnc's noise reduction filter, which is wonderful for quality, but pretty dog slow. On my AMD 2GHz processor, a 2 hour movie is taking over 35 hours. That is encoding time too, but encoding usually never takes more than 2-8 hours with my normal settings. I have looked at the default VirtualDub filters, but cannot get any of them to produce as good results as TMPGEnc's filter. Have heard about some AVISYNTH filters, but need to open source mpeg2 files and want to preserve audio.

Please help. I am anxious to try something new.

[jimmalenko]

I like Convolution3D using AVISynth. There's a guide for AVI here - maybe you could tweak that to suit your situation.

[Soopafresh]

I second Jim's suggestion. AviSynth is the way to go.

[disturbed1]

I like deen for avisynth. Convolution3D is good also, but too many varibles for me to play with.

A simple deen() is what I find works best with my footage.