7D ISO 5600 noise reduction test with "Neat Video"

Watch in 1080p with HD enabled.

There is lots of artifacting due to being compressed for vimeo, but this is about as good as we're gunna get.

I shot this footage on the 4th of July this year. In order to get any kind of exposure I bumped the ISO up to 5600 at f2.8. The footage is completely unusable due to the extreme noise and degradation of the image.

Last night I bought Neat Video's amazing HD noise reduction plug-in for Final Cut Pro and tested it out on this footage. It reduced the noise by an incredible amount and made the footage much better! Of course a lot of detail and sharpness is lost, but the image is usable!

Note: this is video is an example of extreme digital noise, if used on clips with banding or small amounts of noise in the blacks due to under-exposure or color correction I'm positive Neat Video's plug-in will make the clips a billion times better! Well worth the $99

http://www.neatvideo.com/