

This may also keep it from working as fast as it potentially could if there is a less than ideal data path between the two.

It has been complained about for a long time that Neat only works in 8bit colour in Edius, due to the Edius SDK not having something that Vlad at Neat video needs access to if I recall correctly. I will concede though that Neat Video may not be working to it's full potential in Edius. In that light, I guess the question is, what is more important to you, quality or speed? For us at work, it is the quality that wins every time. I work for a film and video post production facility that has produced both broadcast tv and theatrical releases using products that are "higher end" than DaVinci and those products actually recommend using neat video because of it's quality. Upgrade from this free to the paid version of DaVinci Resolve 17 Studio and you also get automatic facial recognition for face refinement tools, temporal and spatial noise reduction, photorealistic optical quality motion effects, lens flare, lens blur, aperture diffraction, Revival restoration tools, film damage or film grain Resolve FX. I believe New Blue has a noise reduction plugin that will work in Edius, and there are also things like the Boris Contuum Complete Image Restoration plugins, but I'm not sure if they are working in the OFX bridge or not. If you have a good GPU in your system, Neat Video can be configured to use the GPU for accelerated processing. I agree Neat Video is slow, but it is slow because is is one of the best noise reduction plugins available in terms of what it can anaylze for and fix. Edius does not have a built in noise reduction plugin.
