I've been loving it. I also use it to speed up my ray-traced CGI work... if I set the ray tracer to 50% accuracy, the render is much faster, but the end result looks like a camera set to WAY high ISO, super grainy, so I use neat video to go behind and clean that up. Cuts hours to days off of my renders. Works wonders on timelapse as well.

Just a humorous flashback to days gone by in World of Video Processing....

Many years back, I posted on the Neat Video boards that the developer

should look seriously into GPU for performance gains.

There were no other posts on that site concerning GPU, and this was a fairly new idea at the time.

This was back in the days when only nVidia had their own obscure, little known video conversion program that utilized some GPU, but clearly showed the potential if incorporated in other video processing software.

Neat Video was then and still is a great product, but the speed was (understandably years ago with older single core/slower x32 code and CPUs) brutally/painfully slow.

The developer personally, and many board members responded as if there was no potential for performance gains via GPU and the whole idea was basically nonsense ("you don't understand how this works" "GPU will never make any speed difference" etc), and at best would be given very low development priority.

Nice to see all these years later that someone finally "saw the light".

I just wish they had listened sooner and saved many of us 100s of lost hours waiting for footage to process ;)

Ok, now I am feeling a bit old..... but I was correct, and that's all that matters ;)

It could be that the GPU tech at the time wasn't up to par for it, it probably took this long for it to reach a point where it had gains over using a CPU. Libraries had to be developed, we didn't have OpenCL and CUDA and all that back then.

@BruceUSA - Yup, we were all over NV4.7 in May this year. You might find the thread educative? Vlad and the boyos have been busy busy . . . 😎

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/vegas-pro-15-neatvideo-4-7-as-media-fx-event-fx-no-frames--110662/#ca685371

Yup. I must missed it. I just accidently saw an ad saying neat video support high end card that prompted me to down load v4.7. Thanks for the link.

yikes... got excited for a minute there that there's a new version making it even faster now... well, quick check and realized that i'm on 4.7 for a long time :(

In the last week I was advised to install the latest drivers for my ancient nVidia GTX Ti. I was loathe to fiddle around with my stable setup, but hey, I can always Roll-Back, can’t I 😉 ? Well, Chalk and Cheese....Day and Night.... Then I remembered the NV Testing toolset and was pleasantly surprised at the improvement in Preview FPS. And now I feel a wee bit stoopid that I hadn’t done this before. But hey, there again, maybe the nVidia Hobbits hadn’t got this last Driver set up before now. NV is happily using a Combo of CPU+GPU+the Latest CUDA update from M$ .

@BruceUSA Thanks for Posting this thread, ‘cos in a roundabout way, it’s allowed me to feedback my experience of my latest Driver install.

It’s all good ✌️!

Just curious... approx. what proportion of clips you work with need to be cleaned up with NV?

Just curious... approx. what proportion of clips you work with need to be cleaned up with NV?

@Kinvermark: None! I’m totally excellent in everything I do, say and wryte.

Bruce, have you tested it running 14 cores vs. 6-8 cores?

Assumptions aside, both Vegas and Handbrake reportedly perform no better above eight cores

Bruce, have you tested it running 14 cores vs. 6-8 cores?

Assumptions aside, both Vegas and Handbrake reportedly perform no better above eight cores

Musicvid. I am not exactly sure what you means by 14 vs 6-8 cores. I own 2 systems, mentioned above. The 16 cores system that I experienced in Vegas, HB, Resolve and all other apps that I used is so good in performance. I post up two charts because I own 2 different systems just for reference. I noticed that the previous NV version used CPU/GPU combo and the 4.7 version used 2X GPU, 290X only and it is much faster in denoise.

@Grazie

Me perfict two!

Levity aside, I was wondering if you NV guys like to use it on "normal" clips too, or just problem footage shot in the dark. Frosty mentioned one creative use to do with something about ray guns. :)

If I’ve ever wanted to squeeze more onto a DVD, I’ve used it.

In the last week I was advised to install the latest drivers for my ancient nVidia GTX Ti. I was loathe to fiddle around with my stable setup, but hey, I can always Roll-Back, can’t I 😉 ? Well, Chalk and Cheese....Day and Night.... Then I remembered the NV Testing toolset and was pleasantly surprised at the improvement in Preview FPS. And now I feel a wee bit stoopid that I hadn’t done this before. But hey, there again, maybe the nVidia Hobbits hadn’t got this last Driver set up before now. NV is happily using a Combo of CPU+GPU+the Latest CUDA update from M$ .

@BruceUSA Thanks for Posting this thread, ‘cos in a roundabout way, it’s allowed me to feedback my experience of my latest Driver install.

It’s all good ✌️!

You welcome. :)

If I’ve ever wanted to squeeze more onto a DVD, I’ve used it.

You just nailed. :)

@Grazie

Me perfict two!

Levity aside, I was wondering if you NV guys like to use it on "normal" clips too, or just problem footage shot in the dark. Frosty mentioned one creative use to do with something about ray guns. :)

I mostly use it for low light shots. I also noticed a "cleaner" 4K or HD master looks a lot better on DVD and even BluRay; maybe less with for the encoder?