is neat video my best option

[hdfills]

hello all, im in the process of cleaning some vhs captures, i have alot of grain/noise on some of them .... i have purchased neat video plugin for vegas 14 would this be a good option for cleaning the video ...

[johnmeyer]

Lots of people use Neat for exactly that purpose. Try it!

[jagabo]

Just don't overdo it. A common mistake with beginners is they concentrate on removing all the noise -- and don't notice that also lost all the image detail. Fuzzy sweaters look like silk jackets, subtle wood grain disappears, people look like mannequins, etc.

[johnmeyer]

+1 Jagabo.

I've posted that same thing 100+ times in the past ten years. The famous mantra "less is more" most definitely applies.

People are so happy to see the noise disappear that they often don't realize how many other things are disappearing as well.

[Brainiac]

+1 Jagabo

Very true. I do a compare multiple times just to make sure there is a minimal loss of detail.
And be prepared for long render times, too.

[johnmeyer]

And be prepared for long render times, too.

I do most of my denoising in AVISynth not only because I like the results better, but because Neat is extremely slow.

[lordsmurf]

NeatVideo is like taking a meat clever to a surgery.
Avisynth is far more precise.

If you insist on using it, know that the defaults are far too strong. Scale it way back.

[hdfills]

thank you all for your feedback - ive used neat video and happy with the results but i will be more than happy to try and learn avisynth's way for doing it if better results - has anyone got any links to any tutorials on avisynth's please

[hdfills]

NeatVideo is like taking a meat clever to a surgery.
Avisynth is far more precise.

If you insist on using it, know that the defaults are far too strong. Scale it way back.

if you could post me in the right direction that would be great as i have read enough to know you 100% know what your doing

[themaster1]

you can use neat in avisynth and should give you better results than vdub+neat imo (as far respect to the interlacing and chroma subsampling precision at least). the thing is you have to use vdub first to make the noise profile.
example (read neat's doc for more infos)

ConvertToRGB32(matrix="Rec601",interlaced=true)
LoadVirtualDubPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\VirtualDub\plugins\NeatVideo.vdf", "NeatVideo", 2) # Neatvideo version 3(gpu)
NeatVideo("C:\Program Files (x86)\Neat Video for VirtualDub\PROFILES\myprofile.dnp", "C:\Program Files (x86)\Neat Video for VirtualDub\PRESETS\my profile.nfp", "1.0", "2", "1", "1" )
convertyoyv12(interlaced=true)