Frequency of video noise

Discover the fascinating world of video noise frequency in our comprehensive article. Gain insights into its significance, exploring its effects on your footage and how it influences your editing process. Arm yourself with valuable knowledge to elevate your video editing skills and achieve professional-quality results.

Editing Aurora photos. Part 2

Embark on the final phase of our Aurora shot editing journey in Photoshop! This time we dive into intricate details, guiding you through tools and techniques to seamlessly merge the Aurora and landscape.

Choosing GPU for video editing in 2024

With the new players in the GPU field, it's very hard to choose the one. Each graphic card model is sold as an "ultimate choice". This article will outline the main things you should keep in mind when choosing a GPU for video editing. Read on

M3. How does it perform?

We see new Apple M computers every year. Let's see how much goodness have they packed into their fruits this time.

Editing Aurora photos. Part 1

Taking pictures of Aurora in the field is the first step toward brewing the perfect picture. Extracting the magical feeling from your photos is the second one that can't be left out. Let's talk about selecting the right components for the final image, essential adjustments and mixing the landscape with Aurora. Elevate your editing skills and bring your Aurora photos to life!

Howtos of collaborative filmmaking

Filmmaking is quite an intricate dance, where disciplines like design, photography, writing, and music mix to create a unified vision. Uncover the benefits and challenges of fostering a collaborative filmmaking environment, delving into the crucial role of technology, project management, teamwork, and effective communication.

Photographing Aurora Borealis In The Field

Capturing the beauty of the Aurora is not just exciting; it's relatively easy with the right gear. We know gear isn't everything, but when shooting at night, it's essential. Let's explore what you need to pack, from lenses to accessories and camera settings. Plus, discover some pro tips on exposing and composing your Aurora shots. Start your journey of taking pictures of stunning Aurora!

Editing Workflow in a Full-Scale Film Production

Ready to elevate your video editing game? Dive in and discover the secrets behind a pro's editing process! From importing raw footage to exporting the polished masterpiece, we've got your comprehensive guide right here.

From filming to editing Aurora Borealis

Immerse yourself in the captivating world of editing the mesmerizing Aurora Borealis in this enlightening article. Uncover the secrets behind creating stunning visual masterpieces.

Get animations rendered faster

Discover an unexpected solution that can revolutionize your CGI workflow. Introducing Neat Video, originally designed to remove video noise, but it also effectively suppresses noise in CGI renders. By utilizing Neat Video in post-processing, you can dramatically reduce the number of required render samples, while still achieving the desired visual quality.

Learn how to disable built-in denoising features, generate changing noise patterns with the Seed value, and apply lens distortion after denoising to avoid distorted noise grids.

Final Cut disables older plug-in interfaces

Final Cut Pro 10.6.6 and Motion 5.6.4 no longer support FxPlug2 and FxPlug3. That means some older plug-ins will stop working. Check your plug-ins before updating.

DPReview, we will miss you

We mourn with all of you and will miss the resource immensely. Thank you guys for 25 years of hard work!

Filming Aurora Borealis in the field

Predicting and chasing Aurora is one thing, but capturing it is a different animal altogether. Let's explore some tips and tricks for capturing the perfect shot of this awe-inspiring natural phenomenon.

Let's compare Apples to Apples

With Apple almost completing upgrade from M1 to M2 let’s have a look at what you will be getting in terms of video editing power.

Chasing Aurora. All you need to know

Ever wanted to go far North (or South) to experience and maybe even capture Aurora dancing lights? It's not as easy as buying a ticket to Norway and going for a walk, but it's absolutely achievable if you know when, where, and how. Time to get ready!

RTX 4090. New and powerful?

Has NVIDIA created something outstanding? When looking at the specs we were not convinced and anticipated only a marginal speed improvement. Let's check what our tests have uncovered.

Drone tricks: sunrise above the clouds

Drones have changed filmmakers' perspectives and removed so many boundaries. Now you just need to find a way to use opportunities and reach your... and your little copter's true potential!

Reduce digital noise and grain in Premiere Pro

Have you been shooting all night and now have to deal with digital noise? Or maybe you are working with archived footage? There are different reasons video noise can get onto your footage, the good news is you can always fix it.

Interlaced video. Nuances of denoising

At times you may ask yourself and us 'What's going on?!' Why have your frames become squashed or doubled? Usually, those visual effects are just a sign that you are working with an interlaced video. Do you need to do anything special to denoise such clips?

How to remove dust and scratches but keep the grain?

Do you want to remove dust and scratches from an old video, but keep the grainy character of the clip? Neat Video is a very flexible filter that can allow you to achieve precisely that. Read this article to learn what settings are important for this task.

M1 Mac Studio. Is it really that good?

M1 computers are built differently and the new Mac Studio isn't an exception. The question is have Mac engineers managed to scale M1 Max performance and make M1 Ultra that efficient as it was promised?

How to reduce only flicker

Neat Video can do more than denoising. It has deflicker, jitter reduction and other tools to improve the quality of your video. What do you do if you only want to remove flicker?

Learn how to handle banding

Banding in video is a problem that has been around for a long time and is difficult to deal with. However we've decided to challenge ourselves and do some tests to see what works and what doesn't. Each stage of the video editing process has its own ways of eliminating / preventing / masking the problem and many video editing apps can assist you with making it less noticeable as well.

M1 Max vs Dell XPS 17 and HP zBook Fury G8

Wondering whether M1 Max is really worth all that hype? Are there any other mobile workstations that are able to run well with Neat Video and other heavy software? And what about desktops? What do they offer? Lots of questions to be answered.

Optimize Edit page performance in DaVinci Resolve

Choppy playback, errors, and even crashes can all be part of everyday life of any DaVinci Resolve user. Learn how to make Resolve more responsive and stable on the Edit page when working on big projects and using heavy effects.

Battling dust, scratches and flicker in animated films of long ago

Restoring old films is a process that requires time, dedication and skill. If you got the fist two, third one will come as well. Let's start with learning how to remove ugly dust, scratches and flicker from archived video.

Noise profiling: featureless area hunt

Noise reduction depends on the quality of noise profiles, but what does it take to build a perfect noise profile? The main thing is the featureless area that is selected for analysis. The rule sounds simple, but the reality may serve you with a lot of tricky cases. We have put together a number of examples of good and bad areas for profiling.

Resolve, Final Cut and Premiere: M1 vs Intel

New hardware and new performance. Find out how well Resolve, Premiere Pro and Final Cut went through this transition.

Neat Video in Resolve, part 2: strategic caching for performance

Strategic use of the caching tools built into Resolve is one of the best ways to optimize playback performance during color grading. Nail it and save some valuable time for perfecting the colors.

Neat Video for Final Cut. Second revision

The long-awaited day has come and Neat Video for Final Cut has added native support for Apple Silicon Macs. It has come out as a completely new plug-in based on the FxPlug4 development toolkit. This new plug-in is called Second Revision (or SR) plug-in and, at this stage, has a status of a beta version.