waltervolpatto wrote:Guys, I’m not asking for a different software solution: we have literally close to a hundreads of machines, i cannot ask to install “this magical plugin that solve the problem until it kill teh realtime to a crawl and the client leave in pain”. Resolve has a noise reducer tool, just add a functionality to it to DO NOT look at tails when a cut is there.
I think the issue is that Blackmagic Design is very busy fixing bugs and adding new features, so my guess is they rarely have the time to go back and fix a legacy feature like Noise Reduction. I can think of a long list of feature suggestions and improvements that have yet to be taken care of going back many years (at least to Resolve 12). As it is, it's amazing to me how much gets accomplished in each release.
Warner Bros. MPI is actually using Neat Video with their latest film restoration projects (including the acclaimed
Godfather 4K Dolby Vision release this year), and they have some interesting ways of using the tool. Part of their secret is to mix one layer of a noise-reduced render with an original-clip video layer -- sometime as a composite, sometimes as a wipe, sometimes as a blend. It's great when you have the time to to it that way, allowing you to noise-reduce only shadows, only highlights, Y-only, or chroma-only, or just specific colors.
Uli Plank wrote:But isn't it always like this? You can either ask the manufacturer with a 'pretty please' and wait for it or find an alternative if you need it now? And then, for so many machines it should be possible to strike a good deal with Vlad or get floating licenses.
I think Walter's point is that if you work for a large facility (as he does), it's tough to convince them to run out and pay for X seats of additional software to do a specific function. What used to happen to us at Technicolor is we'd have one room with certain options and another room with other options, but you could never get both of them at simultaneously for a scheduled session. I think there are ways to juggle problems like this logistically -- for example, have a render workstation in the machine room that has all the plug-in(s) -- but every facility is different. I don't know if Neat offers site licenses or not.
In the audio mixing business, you could have something like an iLock and keep all the authorizations for a Pro Tools system on that, and then plug-in this device on any other system you needed temporarily just to open up those functions. Not so simple with video.