What's new in Neat Video for Final Cut 3.6.0

Sep 16, 2014
  • Improved support for new Mac OS X 10.10
  • Added support for some new AMD GPUs based on Pitcairn, Tahiti and Hawaii chip series, for example, R9 270, R9 280, R9 290 etc.
  • Improved compatibility with Final Cut Express
  • Several cosmetic improvements in GUI of the plug-in
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed

New in Neat Video for Final Cut 3.5.0 (Nov 22, 2013)

  • Added support for new Mac OS X 10.9
  • The recommended version of FCP X is now 10.0.9
  • Added support for new AMD GPUs: FirePro D300/D500/D700
  • Improved support for AMD GPUs conforming to the Graphics Core Next Architecture
  • Improved plug-in installer:
  • Checking CUDA driver during installation
  • Checking for running copies of host applications
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed

New in Neat Video for Final Cut 3.4.0 (Jun 24, 2013)

  • The recommended version of FCP X is now 10.0.8
  • Added support for new Mac-compatible GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac
  • Performance optimizations for AMD/ATI GPUs speedups in filter modes with larger temporal radiuses: up to 10% in CPU+GPU mode and up to 30% in GPU-only mode
  • Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA Compute Capability 3.5 (such as GeForce GTX Titan and Tesla K20)
  • Performance optimizations for NVIDIA GPUs speedups in filter modes with larger temporal radiuses and higher bitdepths: up to 15% in CPU+GPU mode and up to 20% in GPU-only mode
  • New Navigator panel to quickly locate areas for profiling and preview using a thumbnail display
  • Plug-in could crash when using multiple OpenCL GPUs on MacPro, fixed
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed

New in Neat Video for Final Cut 3.3.0 (Apr 17, 2013)

  • Added support for AMD/ATI GPUs through OpenCL (GPU acceleration is now possible with both NVidia and AMD/ATI cards)
  • The following AMD/ATI GPUs are supported:
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770/5870;
  • AMD Radeon HD 6750M/6770M/6970M;
  • Some other models of AMD/ATI cards (please directly try the plug-in or contact support to verify)
  • More accurate GPU speed measurements (in Optimize and Benchmark)
  • Improved support for OS X 10.8
  • Several cosmetic improvements in GUI
  • Minor corrections in the reduced brightness color theme
  • Product registration was not always preserved reliably, fixed
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed

New in Neat Video for Final Cut 3.2.0 (Jun 7, 2012)

  • Support for FCP X 10.0.4
  • Updated to CUDA 4.2
  • GTX 680 and newer GPUs are supported; improved performance of GPU render
  • Additional optimizations of filters for multi-core CPUs and GPUs
  • Color themes: normal and reduced brightness options, in Preferences
  • Several bugs have been fixed

New in Neat Video for Final Cut 3.1.0 (Jan 27, 2012)

  • Added support for HS-ART Dustbuster 4.5 (OpenFX plug-in; Windows and Mac OSX)
  • Added support for Assimilate Scratch 6.1 (OpenFX plug-in; Windows and Mac OSX)
  • Improved support for Motion 5.0.1 (plug-in for Final Cut, Mac OSX)
  • Added support for Adobe Premiere Elements 10 (plug-in for Premiere; Windows and Mac OSX)
  • Added support for Sony Vegas Pro 11 and Vegas Movie Studio 11 (plug-in for Vegas; Windows)
  • Improved accuracy of color channel processing in temporal filter; colors in fast-changing scenes are now preserved better
  • Updated to new CUDA 4 (improving compatibility with several NVidia GPUs)
  • Improved support for new GPUs (Compute Capability 2.x)
  • Optimized use of memory in GPU processing, making rendering more stable and in some cases faster
  • Improved stability of GPU processing for large frames (such as 8k)
  • Several compatibility issues and bugs have been fixed

New in Neat Video for Final Cut 3.0 (Oct 30, 2011)

  • Improved quality of noise reduction:

  • Improved quality of temporal noise filter
Improved algorithms better detect and preserve details in filtered video data and thus improve the overall visual quality.

  • Improved accuracy of Adaptive Filtration
Adjusting to the changing noise done by Adaptive Filtration option is more precise now, which leads to more accurate noise reduction.


  • Higher performance: x2 faster due to CUDA-acceleration:

  • Faster noise reduction using modern CUDA-compatible GPUs
For example, enabling NVidia GTX 470 or GTX 285 on an i7-based computer makes Neat Video around x2 faster.
The speedup may be higher with i5 or Core2 Duo machines or with faster CUDA GPUs.

  • CPUs and GPUs working together
Neat Video can use both CPUs and GPUs at the same time for faster processing

  • Multiple GPU support
Neat Video works even faster with two or more CUDA GPUs

  • Optimization of performance settings for multi-core, multi-CPU and multi-GPU systems
  • Built-in Optimizer in Neat Video Preferences
  • Built-in Benchmark to measure processing speed with specific hardware and performance settings


  • Higher performance (more): x2 faster due to improved filter algorithms:

  • Additional performance optimizations in filter algorithms to achieve higher rendering speed
Rendering is around x2 faster than in the version 2 (using CPU alone, even without CUDA)

  • CUDA-based acceleration and filter optimizations combined together enable up to x4 faster rendering as compared with Neat Video v2.

  • OpenFX for Linux is now supported too:

  • In addition to the OpenFX plug-ins for Windows and Mac OSX hosts (Nuke, Fusion), Neat Video is now also available as an OpenFX plug-in for Linux host applications (Nuke for Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit).

New in Neat Video for Final Cut 2.7 (Jul 14, 2011)

  • Support for new 64-bit Motion 5
  • Neat Video v2.7 is the first 32-bit/64-bit build of the plug-in for Final Cut. Currently, it can run in one 64-bit host application: Motion 5.
  • (the plug-in continues to support the older 32-bit hosts too: FCP 7, 6; Motion 4, 3; FCE 4)
  • The new 64-bit version of Final Cut Pro itself - FCP X - is not yet supported due to several bugs and missing features in the initial release of FCP X.
  • We hope that Apple will fix the discovered bugs and will add the missing features in one of the nearest updates of FCP X and then it will become possible to use Neat Video plug-in directly in FCP X. Until then, it is possible to run Neat Video in Motion 5 and then use the results in FCP X.
  • Additional control to adjust the number of CPU cores used for rendering
  • (to optimize performance on multi-core computers)
  • Several compatibility issues and bugs have been fixed

New in Neat Video for Final Cut 2.6 (Aug 24, 2010)

  • New viewer modes added to facilitate noise analysis and preview in individual components of video data
  • Several general improvements in GUI
  • Additional performance optimizations
  • Several minor bugs and cosmetic issues corrected

New in Neat Video for Final Cut 2.55 (Aug 13, 2009)

  • Added compatibility with new Final Cut Studio 3 (Final Cut Pro 7 and Motion 4).
  • Improved memory management leading to much more stable rendering in complex projects.
  • Optimized frame processing that reduces load on Final Cut and enables faster rendering in many cases.
  • Several improvements in GUI and diagnostic messages.
  • Several minor bugs and cosmetic issues corrected.