Fcpx free plugin denoise pro#

Now that we’ve got the technical details out of the way, it’s time to see how well a plug-in that costs just shy of 24 Euros will stack up against a plug-in for After Effects that costs about 77 Euros.

Fcpx free plugin denoise pro#

Final Cut Pro X includes its own sharpening filter, so you can use that downstream of Photon Pro.

For my comparisons below, I did not sharpen the clip after having applied Photon Pro. In a real-world workflow, you should sharpen afterwards to ‘bring back the punch’ in the edges. Photon Pro, unlike other plugins, doesn’t implement its own sharpening filter. Disabling this parameter will result in blurrier results or a ghosting effect. The Spatial Mask setting affects the edge sharpness of the results. Setting the former at a high value will result in a more blurry effect, while setting the latter at a low value may introduce flicker. Spatial Radius will determine the size of the window around each pixel used for noise reduction, while Temporal Radius will determine how many frames before and after the current one are used for noise reduction. Except for the noise reduction sliders, the two radius sliders serve to increase the area Photon Pro will take as its pixel base for determining how noise reduction should be applied. That’s a lot less to play with than Red Giant Software’s Denoiser II in After Effects. It has no more than five parameters: Luma NR, Chroma NR, Temporal Radius, Spatial radius and Spatial Mask. Photon Pro presents itself to the Final Cut Pro X user as a single item in the Effects tab under the “” category. That’s a pretty hefty statement, so I decided to compare Photon Pro to the Red Giant Software Denoiser II plug-in for After Effects. I received Photon Pro, a very inexpensive and simple to use Final Cut Pro X plug-in that claims it removes noise from your footage achieving the same quality as much more expensive “professional” denoising products. Even a bit of noise can ruin your footage. Image noise is detrimental to photographs, but it’s even worse when it occurs in video.