I was made a Freeman of Lichfield through The Worshipful Company of Smiths (established 1601). Under the name Idustrial Revolution, I have written and sold plugins for Final Cut Pro for 13 years.
I have also worked as a broadcast and corporate editor for over 30 years, starting on one inch tape, working through many formats, right up to today's NLEs. I am the Editor-in-Chief of FCP.co and have run the website since its inception ten years ago. Try watching this on fullscreen as some of the differences are subtle. Wouldn't it be good if somebody compared the Photon Pro plugin to the Neat Video version? Lucky for us that's exactly what Florian Fahrenberger has done on YouTube. Here is an example from the Photo Pro site: (Click for larger image) A recent and fast OpenCL 1.2 compatible graphic card is highly recommended to achieve the best performance." Photon Pro will take full advantage of the new Mac Pro (late 2013) dual GPU architecture.
Photon Pro has been designed to preserve edge sharpness while removing noise. The Sharpening filter included in Final Cut can be used downstream of Photon Pro to make the edges look even punchier.
Both spatial and temporal denoising are supported, as well as mixed-mode spatial and temporal. The plug in enables you to set different level of correction for the luminance and the chrominance channels. "Inspired by the leading photographic editing applications, Photon Pro allows you to do interactive editing with ease and speed. Secondly we are pleased that a plugin has made it into the Apple Mac Store, we thought that installing a plugin in the system was one of the reasons you couldn't be listed. We haven't used it ourselves, but the claims and example on our forum look good. First of all the low price point means it's a bit of a no-brainer for anybody who has to make video shot in low light look acceptable. The new kid on the noise reduction block is Photon Pro, a $29.99 FCPX plugin that is marketed with the tagline " Photon Pro uses a sophisticated algorithm to remove sensor readout noise and photon shot noise from digital movie recordings" Yes we had to go and look up photon shot noise too, standby for some maths on that link.Ī few thoughts here. Neat Video was the preferred choice and comes in a few flavours from a $49 home version up to a Pro version that sells for $199.90. A few cheap plugins that say they reduce noise but just do a fancy blur and at the other end of the market, the specifically designed noise reducer Neat Video. Noise reduction in video, up until now there have only been a few options. We saw the plugin pop up on Twitter last week, but didn't really take any notice until an FCP.co forum member posted an example online and we checked out out the price.
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