We need to apply these settings to the rest of the images in our image sequence. To do this click on the icon shown below to copy the current picture profile to clipboard. Now we need to apply these settings to the rest of the images in the image sequence. These are the settings we used but play around with the settings and see what works for your shots. We used luminance value of 85.00. Every shot is going to require a different setting based on how much present in the shot. Switch on the “Noise Reduction” section by clicking the power icon next to the heading.Ĭhange the method to RGB and quality to high. Select the first frame from the image sequence and double click it to enter into editing mode.įrom the right side of the window, head over to the “Details” tab.

Select and double click the folder to load the entire image sequence into the RAWTherapee window. Using the sidebar, browse to the location of your image sequence folder. A quick google search will render some useful results. There are plenty of application and methods to do this so we won’t get into in this post. The way to use RAWTherapee as a video denoising tool is to have your video in a image sequence format. RAWTherapee is mainly a photo editing program. RAWTherapee is an open-source program which means its free for absolutely anything and runs on Windows and Mac OSX. Let’s begin by downloading the program by clicking HERE. We will be using RAWTherapee, to denoise our videos. The method we’ll show you in this post is completely free wether you’re a beginner or a professional filmmaker or just need to denoise some home videos. Now, enough blabbering and onto the tutorial! However, if you pirate for professional projects and get caught doing it you will be liable to pay heavy fines and may lose out on future work. True, you can do that if you’re doing portfolio work. “I can just pirate After Effects and Neat Video and I’m all set, I don’t need go open source!” Denoising software is expensive, with the method in this post you can save on plugins and invest those funds on education to become a better artist!ĭenoising your footage can be quite laborious and time consuming, the best thing to do is make sure you don’t need to denoise at all! However, this is not always possible due to hardware limitations.Clean footage is almost always needed for VFX shots and clean plates.Clean footage is exudes a professional aura to your production, especially when working for clients.

Denoise… what? A lot of filmmakers these days add film grains and noise to their digital footage so you might wonder why we’re writing a tutorial on denoising digital video.

Free video denoiser