When Tony Hernandez of Cinemartin contacted me and asked if I would like to do a hands on review of their latest Standalone Denoiser, I didn’t hesitate to jump in.
Cinemartin was the first to bring ProRes encoding to windows.
I have been working on a beta release which still has a few bugs but already the software is showing great promise. The software has three levels of denoising, soft, medium or high plus a custom setting that allows you to tweak your Denoising to match your particular video. It even has an additional second denoiser filter to additionally fine-tune your denoising even further. Adjust gamma, brightness, contrast and saturation before deciding on your output. The software also features a standalone monitor and the ability to zoom in to check the noise for critical adjustment.
As for outputs, Cinemartin Denoiser offers, of course, ProRes in every setting from Proxy to 444, DNxHD, H.264, RAW Video and several variations of H.265 HEVC.
One of the most impressive things besides the variety of high end formats was the speed at which it transcode your video after “Denoising”. The typical workflow of “Denoising” after ingest footage and before editing makes speed an essential tool.
Cinemartin delivers on all counts. The final version is slated for release in September so you don’t have long to wait. You will definitely want this software as part of your workflow. – 3DGuy
Press Release below:
Standalone, with outputs to Prores and HEVC H265
Cinemartin announce has just released a new and standalone professional video denoiser software for Windows, Cinemartin Denoiser.
For video noise reduction purposes, it is just as simple as load a clip, adjust the denoiser settings or select a preset and click on Denoise button. Get your videos without noise, converted to professional formats. No need for plugin, no need for any other application / software, just Cinemartin Denoiser for de-noise or grain removal purposes.
Superb results and outputs in prores, DNxHD, H.265 and uncompressed format.
– Support almost any input video
– Resolutions up to 4K
– Framerates up to 240fps
– FullScreen denoise monitor
– Play Preview function
– Select start position
– Output to Prores up to 4444
– Output to uncompressed
– Output to DNxHD, H265
Cinemartin Denoiser have two different denoise mechanism to provide better results.
Cinemartin Denoiser works as a Standalone app, so don’t need to have a NLEditor like Adobe Premiere or Avid Media Composer, Sony Vegas, etc ..
Cinemartin Denoiser is not a plugin, don’t need any filter or additional software, Cinemartin Denoiser its just a Windows Application (Software) to denoise videos.
Output to latest codecs: Prores, Uncompressed, H265, ..
Users can output the videos to Prores among other professional formats, this means that the denoised output can be produced to a Apple Prores codec, DNxHD, H.264, uncompressed avi and even H265.
Remove the noise from the clips of your HDSLR or Camcorder and have your clips ready in Prores, for best, easier and fastest way to edit in NLE, or just export to H.264 or HEVC H.265 to better send / upload and share anywere.
Well, the thing is that Cinemartin’s Denoiser is a horribly written piece of software. Because it’s written in a .NET language, it can be decompiled by anyone, exposing it as the rip-off that it really is. ALL the software does is wrap a GUI around the FREE and OPEN-SOURCE tool “ffmpeg” which already packs multiple denoising engines, which are the same ones you see in the software interface. Each “tier” of the Denoiser software actually just unlocks some random command line parameter for ffmpeg. You can do EVERYTHING Cinemartin’s Denoiser does (and more!) for FREE by just using ffmpeg itself. I really wish that more filmmakers would realize what a beautiful tool hundreds of dedicated mathematicians and developers have created with ffmpeg. Noise reduction? Deblocking? Converting and plexing audio and video (with ProRes support)? No problem, just spend a few minutes to learn how to use ffmpeg. It’s open-source and free.