Disable NR on Playback Setting

Is there a setting in Resolve where it ignores Noise Reduction while I playback, but enables I stop on a frame and on renders? I often need to go back and forth between editing and color when working on certain projects. And sometimes I need to into color and selectively disable a bunch of nodes with NR on them, only to go through and turn them back on after I'm done and ready to render again. On some projects, like music videos I shoot in dark environments, I need NR on most clips and it just gets to be a pain to go through and make changes to the edits.

I have ways to work around it, but just having a setting I can toggle on that disables NR while I'm editing or on playback would be massively helpful. Does anything like that exist? I've tried searching to no avail.

Not that I am aware of.
But this can be a good feature request.


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I often need to go back and forth between editing and color

My choice would be to find a way to change that. Outside of client corrections, don't do any Color work until the Edit is done.

And sometimes I need to into color and selectively disable a bunch of nodes with NR on them

If all clips are using the same noise reduction settings, you can use a shared node.

If all clips are using the same noise reduction settings, you can use a shared node.

Brilliant! Inspired by your suggestion, I think you also could put everything that needs NR into a Color Group and put the NR pre or post. Can you add NR in an Adjustment Clip and also enable or disable it?

I'm just discovering these features and it's amazing the tools Resolve gives you.

Can you add NR in an Adjustment Clip and also enable or disable it?

Only spartial NR works with adjustment clips. Temporal NR is not working because it needs access to the Next/Previous frames of the clip and this is not currently possible with adjustment clips.

Tiny "Bypass NR" switch could be really useful.
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Is there a setting in Resolve where it ignores Noise Reduction while I playback, but enables I stop on a frame and on renders? I often need to go back and forth between editing and color when working on certain projects. And sometimes I need to into color and selectively disable a bunch of nodes with NR on them, only to go through and turn them back on after I'm done and ready to render again. On some projects, like music videos I shoot in dark environments, I need NR on most clips and it just gets to be a pain to go through and make changes to the edits.

Three workarounds:

1) put the NR in one node in a fixed node structure, then create two timelines -- one where NR is on, and the other where NR is off (or values are set to 0). That will give you what you want.

2) get much faster hardware where it won't matter if NR is on or off.

3) in cases where the project is overwhelmed with noise, I'll temporarily drop an SNR node as a Timeline grade, and then turn it off prior to render and do a TNR/SNR node and apply that as a global to the normal color grade. There's also the idea of rendering out the entire project, then doing a second NR pass, which we do on occasion with Neat Video.

Another operational suggestion: just color without NR, and once you lock the edit and lock color, then go in and apply NR on a shot-by-shot basis, and then render it. So to me this is more a "best practices" thing, and not a feature suggestion per se.

I appreciate the suggestions. I do have some workarounds I do at the moment, including timeline grades and the like, but they all seem very inconvenient. I get by and it's not the end of the world for me, but this is just a feature I've always wanted to have, and thought I might inquire in case they added it and I didn't realize. Also, I submitted a request for it.

I definitely want to upgrade my GPU to where it won't be an issue, but I don't have the money right away (plus the RTX 3080 cards are sold out everywhere), and I know many others don't either, and this could be helpful even with a better setup. The biggest issue for me is when I work with clients or artists for music videos and I send them cuts, they have a harder time seeing unpolished clips. So once I'm happy with the edit, I color and do NR before sending it to them. Then when I need to go back and do changes to the edits I need to go through and disable it throughout the video to edit. I don't know, like I said, I have ways that I've managed and been okay, but this feature just seems so basic and simple and like it should be a part of the program.