DE:Noise 1.0: plugin for noise, artifact rem

DE:Noise is a new Final Cut Pro/Adobe After Effects plug-in that handles spurious frame-to-frame defects ranging from fine digital and electronic noise to blotchy spots (e.g. dirt on the film). The tool uses proprietary motion estimation (optical flow) techniques and feature-sensitive, edge-preserving spatial filtering methods to reduce the visual impact of various problems such as: noisy video (that can happen with low-light capture), excessive film grain, CG renders affected by ray-tracing sampling artifacts, fingerprints and dust captured during film scan/transfer and printing, snow, drop-outs and many other defects.

There are 8 different temporal filtering methods that use motion estimation (via optical flow) to correlate images over time in order to reduce noise and other artifacts. There is also post-processing to help punch up the result or to undo the preprocessing contrast enhancement. DE:Noise offers 8 bits per channel (bpc) support within Premiere Pro, up to 16bpc support in Autodesk Combustion and Eyeon Fusion, and unclamped floating point support in After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro and Apple Motion.

The tool is available as an After Effects-compatible plugin for Adobe After Effects 5 and up, Adobe Premiere Pro 2 and up, Autodesk Combustion 3 and up and eyeon Digital Fusion/DFX+ 4.04e and eyeon Fusion/Vision 5 and up. It's also available as an FxPlug plugin for Final Cut Pro 6 and up, or Motion 3 and up. The full version is priced at $100 through the end of September, while render-only licenses (for use with After Effects', combustion's and Fusion's render-only programs) are priced at $30.

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