I am hobbyist, not planning to shed the price of a camera on expiring software licenses. Just realized that the denoise feature in resolve is only available in the $300 studio version. Found the Neatvideo plugin, praised in several tests saying it's even BETTER than the resolve studio's built in noise reduction. Okay, looking at NV's website it says they got a limited demo plugin that might work for me if I do <15min clips. Fantastic. One caveat though, it says:

"All editions of Neat Video can be applied to footage with any frame size, but actual filtration in the Demo and Home editions is applied to a part of each frame when the frame is larger than the specified limit."

What does it mean in practice? Anyone working with this plugin? Does that mean if I shoot 4k, not to mention 5.3k (gopro) I need to do several runs with carefully selected windows to denoise the entire frame, even in the paid Home edition?

Ive tried Neat video 6, in my gopro clips and their own clips.

And the Demo Noise reduction is only applied to small square on the clip.

Before you going to the Neat video 6 Route, i would test gopro labs Noise Reduction control from 1- 99 ( 1 is the noisest )

If you decide go full Neat Video disable noise reduction completly with gopro labs using NR01

The DIVE=1 removes the distortion underwater

Also with noise reduction you would need to get more bitrate video its stable up to 190Mbps

White balance lock 1 seconds after recording is also mandatory hack.

The best upgrade ive made lately was to purchase the GT-Plugin from xtremestuff along with WIDE=1 mode + Flat color

its all here

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by Nando Diver

2 hours ago, Nando Diver said:

Before you going to the Neat video 6 Route, i would test gopro labs Noise Reduction control from 1- 99 ( 1 is the noisest )

I'll definitely look into that. Also if it does Temporal or just Spatial NR.