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Great! How about a video of how to reduce noise but in audio? You know, the annoying hiss that is always there... Is there any way?

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Totally agree. You often get people who haven't worked out what they were gonna say before hand so there's loads of pauses and half sentences. This was a bit more like watching the BBC {other than the accent, obviously.} Their motto is inform, educate and entertain and this video certainly did the first two.

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Ditto. First time I ever hit like. How does subscribe work? If it only means you get notifications in the bell icon, I'll do it. But everyone's video ends with them asking you to like and subscribe. Can someone explain to me that this helps the video creators in simple English, please?

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There are two types of noise, luminance noise, and color noise. What you're seeing is color noise, and a denoiser should typically take care of both types for you.

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Absolutely. It will work with darker skin tones but it will depend entirely on what else is in the scene and how else everything is exposed. In which case, you may find better success using a Color Key, or a combination of the Color Key and Luma Key together to select the areas that work best for you.

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Honestly, you're getting such diminishing returns at this point I would strongly recommend against it. That's a LOT of extra processing power and rendering time you're going to be adding for what is going to be a negligible difference.

@@ConnorGilks well, here's whats happening: in bright daylight scenes, there's almost 0% noise processing. In darker scenes (dungeons, interiors, outside at night) there's like 70% of the scene processed for noise. Also, women w/ blonde hair = virtually no noise processing, men w/ darker brown hair = almost 100% noise processing. In all due respect brother., does that seem like a good workable solution? When I capture from VHS and laserdisc, there's noise in every frame, irrespective of light/dark (though its probably strongest in the darkest spots of the frame, and lightest in the brightest). Hence, I'd like to do the least amount of NR on the brightest parts, and the most on the darkest.. hence your luma trick. But as it stands, its configured to only affect the darkest spots. What am I missing? :)

That's strange. It could be a number of things, so without more info I can't say for sure. Check the opacity mode on both of them and make sure the blending mode isn't set to something other than "Normal". If it's set to something like Screen it will make things brighter.

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Interesting, there shouldn't be any difference. The render time goes up purely because it has more to process on export, similar to when you add sharpening for example. Although noise reduction should generally be done before color correction anyways, from what I understand. Are you saying that the order of effects changes render time for you?

@@ConnorGilks At least that was my impression when rendering the clip in Premiere's timeline and also when I exported it with Media Encoder, but I only started using Neat Video today. I'll test this more thoroughly tomorrow and get back to you.

I tested it again and can confirm that at least on a Mac Studio and in combination with Premiere (latest versions), Neat Video slows everything down almost to a stop when it is applied after Lumetri. Rendering a 22 second clip (h264 140mbit/s 10 Bit source material, Sony) took almost 23 minutes! For rendering, only about 20% CPU was used and about 60% GPU. Worse, this effect combination also made working with the clip in Premiere impossible. Preparing and building to get the clip into Neat Video took 1-2 minutes and whenever I selected it to display the effect configuration or cut it, the 'thinking' circle appeared and it took 2-3 minutes until Premiere was responsive again and I could do anything. This was repeatable. Applying Neat Video first and then Lumetri was completely different. In Premiere, there is a short processing pause when selecting the clip and building and preparing it went as expected (seconds). I can also edit it as usual. Rendering in Media Encoder took about 1.5 minutes and about 40% CPU and 85% GPU were used. Leftover noise in the resulting video files ist almost identical. I'll send this report to Neat Video and ask their opinion on this. Edit: While searching for their contact info, I found that this is a known issue in Premiere: www.neatvideo.com/support/known-issues/premiere-sr

Thanks for doing the research on this! Very interesting. I always denoise first in my chain so perhaps that's why I never encountered this particular issue. Thanks for sharing your findings!

Bottom layer has VR Denoise, top layer has Luma Key

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It doesn't not increase the size of the final output file. It will, however, take longer to render the exported file.

Hi! Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with GoldWave so I can't help you with that. Best of luck though!

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Same exact process. Just used Neat Video on the bottom clip.

@@ConnorGilks but with shows its mutiple scenes im using DaVinci do you know how to do it there

Sorry, I don’t know DaVInci very well.

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I haven’t tried that, but I’d recommend doing it on a per-clip basis. Your noise pattern/levels will be different depending on the settings used among other variables, so it’s best to treat each clip individually.

@@ConnorGilks Thanks! I tried it on a nested sequence and I just cut the parts that I wanted to use it on. In the future, I will add it to the whole clip of the footage that needs it before nesting. Thanks for the tip!

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Select the two clips, right-click them, and then click on "Nest". If you need to edit them separately again later, just double-click on the Nested sequence again.

Hey Vinx. I personally recommend the plugin Neat Video. It has a demo but I'm not sure what the restrictions are on the demo like a watermark or a limit on the length or resolution of the clip you're denoising, if there are any. Either way, that's my plugin of choice. Alternatively, you can use one built into premiere called VR Denoise if you prefer. KZfaq will be more likely to recommend my channel/videos to others if it sees that users are enjoying the content enough to engage with it through likes, comments, and subscribing, so I really appreciate you doing all three! Thanks so much.

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Well, not really. No matter what your scene is, noise is most noticeable in the darkest areas. Scenes that are more high key with the same amount of noise will generally be “less noticeable.” The other component is that you can still denoise that top layer if you need to (although obviously we shouldn’t be creating this issue in the first place and should be capturing our footage properly in camera), you could denoise both layers but less so on the top layer to preserve detail while still using a heavier effect on the darkest areas.

@@ConnorGilks Ahhhh thats where i beg to differ. Ive seen noise in daylight on certain colors alone. Like magenta plain walls. Brown walls and Rust yellow plain walls. I dont know if u get what i mean. But still the method you mention is useful and worth using in many cases. With my godox lights and shooting in a medical lab ive seen noise on plain walls. Maybe im pixel peeping. LOL.

It's not really a matter of opinion, it's just the science of color and vision. There absolutely can be noise elsewhere in the image, I havne't said otherwise. In fact, the same amount will be present across the entire frame, but it's most NOTICEABLE in shadow areas because it has nothing to mask it, shadows don't contain the same amount of detail and color information that would otherwise obscure the effects of that noise like your midtones do. Noise overlayed on a flat black area is going to be more noticeable and visible compared to the ame amount of noise in your midtones where there is texture, color, etc. to break up the image more. The same can even be said for different types of content in your midtones: a more complex area in your midtones like a textured plaid shirt or a pile of gravel will hide noise better than a flat red wall, for example. You can even see in the video how noise is less noticeable in the subject's hair than in the pitch black area behind him, for this exact reason. In short: more detail and variance in color/brightness = less prominent noise. Not less noise, simply less noticeable. That being said, if you have noise that's that bad in your midtones like you've explained, then no denoising strategy will help you much. You can't fix an image that was simply captured improperly, what you need is to shoot with more light so that you don't have to raise your ISO so high, which results in the noise you're dealing with. Using more lighting on set is the ideal solution, with a faster lens being another option as well.

Yes, as I mentioned it will take longer to export because it's a very CPU intensive process you're asking for. Same thing occurs with other effects too like Unsharp Mask, Rolling Shutter Repair, Warp Stabilize, etc. That's why I say this is best done at the end of your editing so it doesn't also slow down your playback and therefore your editing process too. There's no way around that, sadly.

Where did you get stuck in the process? I’ll do my best to help!

@@ConnorGilks I think I will buy Neat Video. That would be easier .

@@ConnorGilks I have watched your video for the 10th time . I think tint tool has nothing to do in the de-noise process, it is just for our eyes to see the difference. Am I right ???

That’s correct! Otherwise it’s very hard to tell which parts of your scene are the denoised layer and which aren’t.

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That’s likely because your computer can’t handle processing all of that in real time. That’s why I recommend saving denouncing for the very end of your editing process, or playback will be slow unless you have an extremely fast computer.

Of course, because we're focused on the shadows and you're using a Luma Key. Luma = luminance. If you want to isolate a color - which I generally don't recommend - you can do this same process, but use a Color Key instead of the Luma Key.

This same approach will work in any scene, it just depends how you adjust your settings. However, keep in mind that noise is most evident in the shadows so that’s why we’re focused on that. If you’re image is so noisy that you have prominent noise in your mid tones, then you should really be looking at reshooting if at all possible.

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Try viewing on a larger display, make sure you're watching at full resolution. His skin (especially the forehead) without this technique is noticeably smoother, as if someone applied a "smooth skin" filter onto it. Another good spot to notice it is the hair on the side of his head, where it connects to his beard. On the left it's just all blended together, whereas on the right you can see more detail and more of the individual hairs.

I'm guessing you skipped 0:20 - 0:32, and the first link in the description. ;)

Sounds like you didn't watch my other video on how to denoise your footage. Or listen to what I said at 0:25. Or the link in the title card. Or in the description. Regardless, the two components are separate - you can use Neat Video like I did on the clip in this video, or you can use the built-in Adobe tool like I show in my other tutorial preceeding this one, you can even just crush your shadows into oblivion if you like and not denoise at all, it doesn't matter. All of these are completely compatible with the technique I show in this video at reducing noise in your image. If you want to learn how to denoise, you can watch my other video where I covered it already, which is what I said within the first 30 seconds of this video.

@@ConnorGilks However much I cherish your valuable and thoughtful reply, it does sound like you didn't actually read my comment lol. I understand completely that you have already in another video shown how to denoise video. And I am going to watch it! Obviously you have some mad skills and there are loads of people you help immensely, including me after I have watched that other video. But THIS video does not show how to denoise. So the title shouldn't start with "De-Noise Your Footage WITHOUT...". At least I find it misleading and since I - and I am sure I am likely not the only one - have no idea how to denoise and I found this video through a search, I came here thinking that's exactly what I will learn, and was waiting for lol. But no, it does not show at all how to denoise. What title would I use? I have no idea. I am not a video editing guru lol, and I didn't obviously finish watching this video. Because I am still at step 1! Trying to denoise lol. BUT, since you refer to a "part 1" in the description, putting a "part 2" in the title of this one may be a good indication that one should watch the other video first. Again thank you so much for your reply. Really good to see enthusiastic community-engaged people like yourself =)

I'm guessing you skipped 0:25 - 0:32, and the first link in the description. ;)