Neat Video

To make video cleaner.

WHAT'S NEW IN THE LATEST VERSION

[+] New
[*] Changed
[-] Fixed

Neat Video plug-in (SR) for Premiere (Mac)

Version 5.6.0

+ Added support for Premiere Pro 2024

+ Added support for Premiere Elements 2024

+ Added support for new GPUs:

+ Apple M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max
+ Apple M2 Ultra

* Improved stability in latest versions of Premiere

* Improved processing of certain error messages
* Minor corrections in GUI of Preferences

- Fixed several minor issues

Version 5.5.9

* Optimized performance when the alpha channel is present

- Fixed several minor issues

Version 5.5.8

+ Added support for new Apple GPUs:

+ M2 Pro / M2 Max

* Improved diagnostic messages

- Fixed several minor issues

Version 5.5.5

+ Added support for Premiere Pro 2023

+ Added support for Premiere Elements 2023

+ Added support for MacOS 13 Ventura

+ Added support for new GPUs:

+ AMD Radeon RX 6600 / RX 6600 XT
+ AMD Radeon 6900 XTXH
 + Apple M2 GPUs

* The minimum version of MacOS required for Metal GPU support is now 11.0.

* Several corrections in reactions of controls and indicators

* Adjusted descriptions of controls

- Fixed several minor issues

Version 5.5

+ Compatibility with the new versions of MacOS

+ Added support for MacOS 12 Monterey
* Improved support for MacOS 11 Big Sur

+ Added GPU support for Apple Silicon (M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max)

* Improvements in GUI
* Several corrections in menus
* Added hints in several controls
* Added shortcut for "Auto Profile with Current Frame"

* Improved support for color themes (Preferences > General):

* The "Normal brightness" theme has been re-implemented and improved
+ Enhancements in the "Auto-detect brightness" option
* Adjustments in the "Reduced brightness" color theme

* Enhanced visual appearance on high-DPI monitors

* Improved support for multi-monitor systems with different DPIs

* Improved stability of GPU-based processing of large frames

* Optimized Neat Video benchmark in GPU and GPU+CPU modes

* Improved installer

* End-User License Agreement has been updated

- Fixed several minor issues

Version 5.4.9

+ Added support for Premiere Pro 2022

- Fixed several minor issues

Version 5.4.8

+ Added support for Premiere Elements 2022

- Fixed several minor issues

Version 5.4.7

+ Added support for AMD Radeon Pro W6800X / W6800X Duo / W6900X

- Fixed several minor issues

Version 5.4.5

+ Added support for Premiere Pro 2021

+ Added support for AMD RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, RX 6900 XT

* Optimized performance on Apple Silicon (M1) systems

* Improved information and error messages

* Several improvements in GUI
* Several corrections in documentation

- Fixed several minor issues

Version 5.4.3

+ Universal Binary version of the plug-in, which can work

on both Intel and Apple Silicon (M1) machines.

* Cosmetic changes in user interface

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 5.4

+ Added support and optimizations for new version of host application:

+ Premiere Elements 2021

+ Added support for MacOS Big Sur (11.x)

* The minimum supported version of MacOS is now 10.13.6.

If you need to use the plug-in with an older version of macOS (10.9.5 - 10.12),
you can do that using Neat Video 5.3 (available in your account).

* Optimization of several GUI elements for Big Sur MacOS

+ Added support for new AMD GPUs:

+ Radeon Pro W5700 / W5500 / W5500X

* CUDA is no longer supported

The new versions of macOS starting from 10.14 are no longer compatible
with the NVIDIA CUDA driver required to run CUDA-enabled applications
and plug-ins.
 Previous versions of Neat Video could still use CUDA in macOS 10.13 and
earlier. In order to evolve Neat Video further, we had to switch to newer
macOS development tools, which are no longer compatible with the
NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit.

Unfortunately this means that Neat Video 5.4 plug-ins will be

unable to use CUDA in any version of macOS.

If you need to use CUDA with Neat Video in macOS,

you can do that using Neat Video 5.3 (available in your account).

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 5.3

+ Added support for new AMD GPUs:

+ Radeon Pro 5300 / 5500 XT / 5700 / 5700 XT
+ Radeon Pro 5600M

Note: due to changes in AMD drivers, some older Graphics Core Next 1 GPUs are
no longer supported. Please test directly or contact support to verify.

* Improved stability on certain custom Mac machines

* Better handling of incorrect data in input frames

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 5.2.6

+ Added support for new AMD GPUs:

+ Radeon Pro W5700X
+ Radeon RX 5500 / 5500 XT / 5600 / 5600 XT
+ Radeon Pro WX 5100

* Optimized efficiency of playback in Neat Video preview

* Optimized zoom adjustment on opening of Neat Video window
* Improved positioning of Neat Video window during opening

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 5.2

* Improved receiving frames from Premiere to Neat Video window:

o Increased reliability
o Optimized speed
o Added progress bar

+ Added support for Metal GPU interface in MacOS 10.15

(in addition to OpenCL supported since MacOS 10.9.5)

+ Option to choose between Metal and OpenCL for supported AMD GPUs
(in Preferences > Performance > GPU > Advanced Settings)
 Using Metal instead of OpenCL may increase the speed of Neat Video's
GPU-based processing for up to 40% depending on hardware,
frame size and filter settings. The speedup is especially noticeable
with large frames (like 4K) and high temporal radius.

+ Added support for AMD Radeon Pro Vega II / Vega II Duo

+ Added support for AMD Radeon RX 5700 / 5700 XT
* Restored support for AMD Radeon Pro 555X / 560X / 570X / 575X / 580X

* Additional optimizations in GPU code:

* Better performance with single GPU on 8 and 16-bit clips:
up to 4%-8% depending on hardware and filter settings

* Better performance with two GPUs working simultaneously

* Several changes and improvements in GUI to better reflect

the parameters of CPU and GPU used for processing

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 5.1.5

* Improved compatibility with Premiere Pro 2020

* Improved compatibility with Premiere Elements 2020

+ Added support for AMD Radeon Pro 5300M / 5500M

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 5.1

* Improved compatibility with the most recent update of Premiere Pro 2019
* Added workarounds for the known Premiere bugs related to:
- using a non-standard frame rate
- applying Time Remapping or Speed/Duration
- Fixed crashes in Premiere Elements 2018 for certain scenarios

* Improved frame flicker reduction in certain edge cases

* Improved filtration quality when multiple consecutive copies of a frame are
present
* Better handling of incorrect input data (NaN in pixel values)
* Improved conversion of noise profiles prepared in old versions of Neat Video

* Optimized performance in GPU modes

+ Added support for AMD Radeon VII
+ Added support for AMD Radeon RX 590
- Fixed incorrect filtration with AMD Vega GPUs on certain clips

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 5.0
* Optimized for modern hardware for faster processing

* CPU-based processing:
Up to 1.5x faster

* GPU-based processing:
1 GPU : 1.3x..2.0x faster (1.6x average)
2 GPUs: 1.4x..2.0x faster (1.7x average)

* Better filtration results: cleaner and crispier video

+ Flicker reduction

+ Jitter reduction (jitter of details)

* Improved noise reduction

(helped by flicker and jitter reduction)

* Improved Sharpening with additional controls

* Improved Dust and Scratches filter

(helped by flicker reduction)

* Improved filtration of monochrome videos

* Better out-of-box processing of FullHD, 4K and larger videos

(Very Low Frequency filtration is now enabled by default)

+ New tools to check accuracy and tune noise profiles

* Easier than ever before

+ Automatic multi-frame analysis to build more accurate profiles

* Flexible Generic Profiles

(fully adjustable, with visual assistance)

+ Playback to check preview in motion, directly in Neat Video window

+ Visually assisted tuning for profiles and filters

+ Illustrated help dialogs for many filter settings and tuning modes

* Expanded and updated set of pre-built filter presets

+ Variants now can be used to test different profiles too

* More intuitive and interactive user interface (UI)

* Several name changes in UI, including:

* Main tabs are now called "Prepare Noise Profile" and "Adjust and Preview"
* "Auto Profile" / "Build Profile" button (changes depending on selection)
* "Profile Check", "Assist Image", "Filter Settings Check", etc.
* "Repeated Frames" instead of former "Slow Shutter"
* Several other items renamed or moved
 * Adjusted meaning of the selection color in Prepare Noise Profile tab:
the blue color of the selection box now indicates
that 'profile has been built using this area'
(not 'area was chosen automatically' that was in older versions)

+ Undo/Redo operations and history of changes for noise profiles

+ Select/drag modes in viewer (useful for computers with touchpads)

+ Alt+Mouse wheel in viewer zooms to point even when selection is present

* Improved retina support in MacOS (viewer now uses full resolution)

+ Ability to toggle Alpha Channel in viewer (when present)

* Preview performance has been optimized

* Preview cache size adjustment to optimize for different resolutions

(in Preferences > Preview)

+ Additional visual guidance to adjust the GPU memory allowed to Neat Video
(in Preferences > Performance)

* Other improvements

+ Added support for AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 GPU installed in some new iMacs

+ Customized names of profiles and presets are now saved in projects

+ An option to erase Neat Video settings and license during uninstallation

* Improved diagnostic data and error reporting

* Changes in products and licensing

* End-User License Agreement has been updated

* Home plug-in supports up to 1 GPU if available

Version 4.8.5

+ Added support for new versions of host applications:

+ Premiere Pro CC 2019
+ Premiere Elements 2019

+ Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs:

+ GeForce RTX 2070 / 2080 / 2080 Ti
+ Titan V
+ Titan RTX

Note 1: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit,

GPUs with Compute Capabilities 2.x and below are no longer supported.
Only GPUs with Compute Capability 3.0 and higher can be utilized
by Neat Video 4.8.5.
 Note 2: Apple's recently released MacOS 10.14 (Mojave) does not support CUDA.
NVIDIA is working with Apple to get Mojave to support CUDA.
Meanwhile Neat Video will only be able to utilize NVIDIA GPUs on
MacOS 10.13.x and below.

+ Added support for new AMD GPUs:

+ Radeon Pro Vega 16 / 20
+ Radeon Pro WX 7100

Note: due to changes in AMD drivers, some older non-GCN GPUs are no longer
supported. In particular, Neat Video no longer supports
Radeon HD 5xxx / 6xxx cards and other devices based on the following
chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman

Newer AMD GPUs remain supported on MacOS 10.9.5 and above

(including version 10.14)

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 4.8

+ Added support for new versions of host application:

+ Premiere Pro CC 2018.x

+ Added support for AMD Radeon Pro WX 9100

* Improved support for AMD Vega Frontier Edition

* Cosmetic improvements in GUI

* Cosmetic improvements in installer

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 4.7

+ Added support for Premiere Pro CC 2018 and Premiere Elements 2018

+ Added support for AMD Radeon Vega GPUs installed in new iMac Pro computers:
AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 64

* Cosmetic improvements in GUI

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 4.6

+ New Second Revision plug-in for Premiere uses the newer API of Premiere
to overcome bugs of old API of Premiere that caused the following problems:

- problems with cut/trimmed clips (incorrect input frames supplied by Premiere)

- problems with adjustment layers (incorrect input frames supplied by Premiere)

Notes:
 o The newer API (and therefore new plug-in) has some limitations of its own:

- it is necessary to manually prepare sample frames (by clicking a new button)

before opening the plug-in window;

- Premiere Pro CS6, CC, and Premiere Elements 12 have a memory leak
that takes place when an instance of the effect is copy & pasted.

o Second Revision plug-in is installed separately from the regular plug-in

and will not automatically replace it in existing projects.

o Second Revision plug-in for Premiere may supersede the regular

plug-in for Premiere in the future.

+ Added a set of generic noise profiles to help preparing a noise profile

in a situation when video contains no frames and areas suitable
for analysis by Auto Profile

* Improved hardware compatibility with AMD GPUs

+ Added support for AMD Radeon Pro 555 / 560 / 570 / 575 / 580
+ Added support for AMD Radeon RX 460 / 470 / 480 / 560 / 570 /580

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 4.5

* Improved profiling tools

+ A new "Profile Assist" viewer mode helps to choose areas without details
for profiling

* Larger areas can be used for profiling, when available

* More accurate analysis of "Very Low" and "Ultra Low" frequency components
when using small areas

* Filter tuning made easier

+ "Preview Assist" viewer mode provides a more detailed look into results
of noise reduction, which helps to adjust the filter settings faster and
more precisely

+ A new "Noise Level Tuning Assist" tool helps to adjust "Temporal Noise Level"
(former "Temporal Threshold") using a visually enhanced preview

+ Added "Slow Shutter Tuning Assist" tool that helps to adjust "Slow Shutter"
settings using a visually enhanced preview

+ Added "Spatial Filter Tuning Assist" tool that helps to adjust

"Spatial Filter" settings using a visually enhanced preview

+ "Quality Mode" can now be adjusted separately for temporal and spatial filter
 * If a frame is not selected in the clip before opening Neat Video window,
then the frame from the beginning of the clip is used automatically

* Improved hardware compatibility for AMD GPUs

+ added support for new MacBook Pro GPUs: Radeon Pro 450 / 455 / 460
+ added support for Radeon RX 460 / 470 / 480 and similar GPUs

* Multiple GUI improvements throughout the plug-in

* Improved support for Unicode symbols in folder and file names

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 4.2

+ Added support for Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015.3

+ Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs: GeForce GTX 1060 / 1070 / 1080

Note: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit,

GPUs with Compute Capabilities 1.3 and below are no longer supported.
Only GPUs with Compute Capability 2.0 and higher can be utilized
by Neat Video 4.2.

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 4.1

* "Auto Profile" function has been improved to find better areas for analysis.
Using more suitable areas leads to more accurate noise reduction.

+ Several new controls have been added in filter settings:

+ Temporal Filter: "Amount" has been added to control its strength
+ Dust and Scratches: "Half reduction" and "Full reduction" modes have
been replaced with "Amount" allowing for more flexible adjustments
+ "Normal" and "Aggressive" modes of the filter have been added

* Improved performance of "Dust and Scratches" in presence of repeated frames,

on scene changes and in the beginning and end of a clip

+ Added support for Premiere Elements 14

* Improved compatibility with Adobe Media Encoder CC 2015

* Added a workaround for the known Premiere bug related to using Trim/Razor

+ Added support for Retina displays of modern Mac machines

* Improved support for new MacOS 10.11

* Improved installer

* Several improvements in GUI

 + Added support for several new AMD GPUs:
Radeon R9 M290 / M290X / M295X / M370X / M380 / M390 / M395 / M395X

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 4.0

* Higher quality of noise reduction

+ More accurate processing in scenes with changing luminance or chrominance:

fade in/out, camera auto gain control, etc.

+ "Very Low" and "Ultra Low" frequency ranges added to the set of frequency
components that can be separately targeted by the spatial noise filter

+ "Dust and Scratches" filter to remove film scratches, film dust and
impulse interference

+ "Slow Shutter" mode for video containing repeated frames

(clips shot in "slow shutter" or "night" mode, clips with artificially
increased frame rate, etc.).

+ Improved sharpening quality: less halos, sharper edges

+ "High Quality" mode for better detail preservation and sharper image
(at the cost of reduced processing speed: 1.5-4 times slower)

+ "Artifact Removal" filter to remove digital artifacts - impulse noise

typically introduced by video compression (dots and small lines that
are not fully removed by regular noise filters of Neat Video)

* Enhanced "Edge Smoothing" function

+ "Mix with Original" setting to mix processed and original frames

(useful when some of the original noise must be preserved in the video)

* Optimized workflow

+ Several source frames accessible directly in plug-in window provide

a choice of frame for initial profiling and fine-tuning

+ Overall noise levels of the current selection and of the whole current
profile are displayed in "Device Noise Profile" panel (in Advanced Mode)
(quick evaluation of the noise level helps to find the most suitable
area for analysis)

+ Better grouping of filter settings

Filter modules can be enabled/disabled individually to evaluate effect
of each module on the overall result

+ Improved preview takes all temporal and spatial filters into account
This allows to adjust filters individually and in combination as well as
to avoid roundtrips to host application for checking the final results

+ "Variants" of filtration to visually compare results achieved with

different filter settings
 + Multi-step Undo/Redo for filter settings

+ New collection of filter presets with a detailed description of each

preset including: specification of key settings, purpose, applicability,
recommendations for use and possible side effects

+ Estimation of processing speed and optimization of performance settings

can now be done directly from "Filter Settings" panel. This facilitates
optimizing for a specific clip and filtration parameters

+ Options to set up the default noise profile and filter preset

(in Neat Video Preferences)

+ Option for independent open/save folders for profiles and presets

(in Neat Video Preferences)

* Faster processing and more responsive GUI

* Preview is optimized to update faster when filter settings are adjusted

+ "Skip Neat Video Processing" option to temporarily disable all instances

of Neat Video filters to speed up editing in the host application.
Noise reduction is then not applied and the host application works
significantly faster. Neat Video processing can be globally re-enabled
when necessary, for example right before the final render.
It is also automatically re-enabled by a restart of the host application.

* Multiple optimizations have allowed to preserve the speed of processing

despite its greater complexity (as compared with the older Neat Video 3)

* Better support for systems with a large number of CPU cores (32 and above)

* Optimized for dual GPU systems (such as new MacPro's)

Significantly more efficient use of dual GPUs for large frame sizes
such as 4k, 5k, 6k, 8k, etc.

* CUDA Compute Capability 5.0 is now supported in MacOS allowing Neat Video
to take advantage of the latest NVIDIA GPUs
Notes:
1. Due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute
Capabilities 1.0 and 1.1 are no longer supported
2. NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA Capability 5.0 are only supported in 64-bit apps
due to a limitation of the CUDA driver (please refer to known issues)

* Other improvements

+ Option to automatically check for availability of software updates

(in Neat Video Preferences)

* Improved progress indicator (easier to see, smoother, more accurate)

* Numerous minor GUI improvements throughout the plug-in

+ Added support for Premiere Pro CC 2015

- Several bugs have been fixed

Version 3.6

+ Added support for Premiere Pro CC 2014

* Improved support for new MacOS 10.10

+ Added support for some new AMD GPUs based on Pitcairn, Tahiti and Hawaii
chip series, for example, R9 270, R9 280, R9 290 etc.

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 3.5

+ Added support for new MacOS 10.9

+ Added support for Premiere Elements 12

+ Added support for new AMD GPUs: FirePro D300 / D500 / D700
* Improved support for AMD GPUs conforming to the Graphics Core Next Architecture

* Improved plug-in installer

+ Checking CUDA driver during installation
+ Checking for running copies of host applications

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 3.4

+ Added support for Premiere Pro CC

+ Added support for new Mac-compatible GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac

* Performance optimizations for AMD/ATI GPUs

speedups in filter modes with larger temporal radiuses:
up to 10% in CPU+GPU mode and up to 30% in GPU-only mode

+ Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA Compute Capability 3.5
(such as GeForce GTX Titan and Tesla K20)

* Performance optimizations for NVIDIA GPUs

speedups in filter modes with larger temporal radiuses and higher bitdepths:
up to 15% in CPU+GPU mode and up to 20% in GPU-only mode

+ New Navigator panel to quickly locate areas for profiling and preview
using a thumbnail display

- Plug-in could crash when using multiple OpenCL GPUs on MacPro, fixed

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 3.3

+ Added support for AMD/ATI GPUs through OpenCL

(GPU acceleration is now possible with both NVIDIA and AMD/ATI cards)

The following AMD/ATI GPUs are supported:

+ ATI Radeon HD 5770 / 5870;
+ AMD Radeon HD 6750M / 6770M / 6970M;
+ Some other models of AMD/ATI cards
(please directly try the plug-in or contact support to verify)

+ Added support for Premiere Elements 11

* More accurate GPU speed measurements (in Optimize and Benchmark)

* Improved support for MacOS 10.8

* Several cosmetic improvements in GUI

* Minor corrections in the reduced brightness color theme

- Product registration was not always preserved reliably, fixed

- Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 3.2

+ Added support for Premiere Pro CS6

* Optimized rendering in Premiere:

overall project render time becomes about 10-15% shorter

* Updated to CUDA 4.2

GTX 680 and newer GPUs are supported; improved performance of GPU render

* Additional optimizations of filters for multi-core CPUs and GPUs

+ Color themes: normal and reduced brightness options, in Preferences

- Several bugs have been fixed

Version 3.1

* Improved accuracy of color channel processing in temporal filter;

colors in fast-changing scenes are now preserved better

* Updated to new CUDA 4 (improving compatibility with several NVIDIA GPUs)

* Improved support for new GPUs (Compute Capability 2.x)

* Optimized use of memory in GPU processing, making rendering more

stable and in some cases faster

* Improved stability of GPU processing for large frames (such as 8k)

 * Improved behavior of Neat Video viewer when using Apple Magic Mouse

* Improved stability in complex projects in Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Premiere

Elements

* Optimized use of memory resources when running multiple instances of the filter

+ Added support for Adobe Premiere Elements 10

+ In Premiere Elements, Neat Video thumbnail added to the gallery of effects

- In some rare cases, using CPU and GPU simultaneously could produce artifacts,
fixed

- Several bugs in GPU-based processing have been fixed

Version 3.0

Improved quality of noise reduction

+ Improved quality of temporal noise reduction

The temporal filter better preserves actual details.

+ Improved accuracy of Adaptive Filtration

Automatic adjustments to the changes in noise properties
along the timeline are more precise now, leading to more
accurate noise reduction.

Higher performance

+ The first GPU-accelerated version of Neat Video plug-in for Premiere

+ CUDA support
+ Faster noise reduction using CUDA-compatible GPUs
For example, using NVIDIA GTX 285 on a computer based on Intel i7
makes Neat Video around x2 faster.

+ CPUs and GPUs working together

Neat Video can use CPUs and GPUs at the same time for faster processing.

+ Multiple GPU support

Neat Video works even faster with two or more CUDA GPUs.

+ Automated optimization of performance settings for multi-core, multi-CPU and

multi-GPU systems
+ Built-in Optimizer in Neat Video Preferences
+ Built-in Benchmark to measure processing speed on specific hardware

+ Additional performance optimizations

* Faster processing: around x2 faster than in previous version
(using CPU alone, even without involving GPU)

Version 2.7
 + Added support for Premiere Pro CS5.5

+ Control in Preferences to adjust the number of CPU cores used for rendering

- Semi-transparent transitions were not treated correctly, fixed

- Stacking two instances of the filter caused a crash, fixed
- Several minor bug fixes

Version 2.6

+ The first 64-bit version of Neat Video for Premiere is added,

supports Premiere Pro CS5 64-bit;
now both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Premiere are supported

* Improved compatibility with MacOS 10.6

* New image viewer modes are added

* Many improvements in GUI
* Additional performance optimizations

- Several minor bugs are fixed

Version 2.5

+ The first version of Neat Video plug-in for Premiere (Mac)

All noise reduction features originally introduced in the Windows

versions of Neat Video are now directly available for Mac users
who use Premiere (Mac).

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