How to use Neat Video in a multicam-clip?

Hi all,

here's one more question:

I have just edited a 15min interview out of a 60min multicam-clip shot with 3 cameras. The light was pretty low during the shoot so I have to denoise the footage. I normally use Neat Video Noise Reducer for that (yes, I know about the glitch thing and try to deal with that).

What would be the best way to do this? Do I apply the effect to the original in the multiclip-timeline? Or do I apply it to the edited portions in my edited project?

Maybe you should know that I used three different camera models for the shoot so the noise patterns differ.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Sebastian

Apply it either to the original, or in the Multiclip Edior, before getting to the timeline.

You could do it in the timeline after you edit the clip. Just correct one, the copy and Paste Attributes to the others from the same angle.

There's no right or wrong way about it, just which ever method works best for you.

Thanks, Ben.

Someone told me that Neat does always analyze an correct the whole original clip, even if it's used for just an edited part of it. Similar to Optical Flow. Is that correct? That's were my question came from - I was wondering about the fastest way to reduce noise. Don't know if it's just me but apart from the color glitch bug Neat also seems to be incredibly slow in 10.0.7. Rendering the 15min clip (with neat applied to all three cams in the multicam clip) on my 2011 MBP took roughly 5 hours.

CPU and GPU speed make all the difference in the world.

Yes, they surely do. Anyway it felt faster in legacy versions of FCP and I think it also works a little faster in motion.

Anyway - if it's true that Neat always analyzes and fixes the whole source clip and not only the used parts of it, it might make sense to break the source into smaller pieces before applying Neat.

Do you know if that's the case or not?

Thanks,
Seb

I don't use Neat, so someone else should answer that specific question.

In general, in our studio, actually timing things, we found FCP X to do most all tasks faster than FCP 7. But your specific hardware and stuff can give various results.