Glow Filter POS and Degraining

Today is my Getting Mad At Filters Day.

So how exactly is the Glow filter worth anything at all without a Threshold control? And why isn't there a proper degraining/denoising tool?

Today is my Getting Mad At Filters Day.

So how exactly is the Glow filter worth anything at all without a Threshold control? And why isn't there a proper degraining/denoising tool?

Does this Threshold setting help?

Today is my Getting Mad At Filters Day.

So how exactly is the Glow filter worth anything at all without a Threshold control? And why isn't there a proper degraining/denoising tool?

Does this Threshold setting help?

Helps a LOT, duh, thanks Now can you show me how to get tangent controls on the Grid Warp?

Today is my Getting Mad At Filters Day.

So how exactly is the Glow filter worth anything at all without a Threshold control? And why isn't there a proper degraining/denoising tool?

Does this Threshold setting help?

Helps a LOT, duh, thanks Now can you show me how to get tangent controls on the Grid Warp?

Never mind - Right Click and Edit Point - found it.

<<Never mind - Right Click and Edit Point - found it.>>

Of course, the moment one touches the spline handles they disappear. A dialog pops up, but entering values in either mode doesn't seem to do anything. The intuitive thing would be that one can directly manipulate the handles, Shift would constrain to X or Y, etc.

And why isn't there a proper degraining/denoising tool?

A question for the ages. Neat Video works well in Fusion if you have the budget for it. I understand there's a decent degrain in Resolve itself, but that would mean preprocessing your plates through there before getting to Fusion.

I've just started trying to understand the Fourier Transform (the basis for a good denoise), so it's possible we'll be able to come up with a community-built degrain fuse in the future. I have no idea how long it's going to take me to figure it out, though.

<<Never mind - Right Click and Edit Point - found it.>>

Of course, the moment one touches the spline handles they disappear. A dialog pops up, but entering values in either mode doesn't seem to do anything. The intuitive thing would be that one can directly manipulate the handles, Shift would constrain to X or Y, etc.

What you describe doesn't sound familiar. Here's a brief screencap:

https://file.io/IHS1a9

If that doesn't look like what you're experiencing, then I suspect a video driver problem. If it does, then you'll need to be clearer in your description.

Bryan, thanks, but I get a 404 on your sample page. Would very much like to see it.

Wow; I knew it was temporary, but I didn't think it was quite that temporary!

I put it on Vimeo instead:

As regards de-noising, I'd go further than Bryan's comment on Neat Video - it is one of the best plugins around, and well worth the dosh if you deal with more than a small amount of footage.

It's fast (uses GPU and has a render optimisation option that works well), the de-noise quality is second to none, the UI is great and they are constantly developing it. And not just for Fusion - many professional users of the "other" comp software use Neat by preference rather than the built in one (which is far more advanced than the Fusion built in de-noise, but still inferior to Neat).

And agreed, the Fusion built in de-noise is pretty useless . . .

As regards de-noising, I'd go further than Bryan's comment on Neat Video - it is one of the best plugins around, and well worth the dosh if you deal with more than a small amount of footage. It's fast (uses GPU and has a render optimisation option that works well), the de-noise quality is second to none, the UI is great and they are constantly developing it. And not just for Fusion - many professional users of the "other" comp software use Neat by preference rather than the built in one (which is far more advanced than the Fusion built in de-noise, but still inferior to Neat). And agreed, the Fusion built in de-noise is pretty useless . . .

Thanks, all. Presumably the edit points are a GPU issue, but so is Neat Video, unfortunately. I'm using an iMac Pro 8-core with Radeon Pro Vega 56 8 GB, which I basically cannot use, because I'm working 16K x 16K for a big video wall, so I'm busted down to CPU. The mask edit points don't work even in proxy mode, and Neat Video is REALLY slow. I may be able to make the edit points work by temporarily reducing the project frame size.

BTW, just rebuilt the project as 2560x2560, and changed to a wheel mouse, but still cannot get the edit points to persist.

BTW, just rebuilt the project as 2560x2560, and changed to a wheel mouse, but still cannot get the edit points to persist.

RTFM!!! Magnet Type must be in Selected...