We were impressed that, with the 5D Mark IV, there wasnât significant smoothing from Denoiser III, even at ISO 3200. One thing to consider with any denoiser tool is that the more noise you remove, the less sharp the picture becomes.

With Denoiser, we were able to crank up the ISO to 12800. With the a7R III, a much better low-light camera, we were able to push it up to ISO 6400 with minimal noise without Denoiser. The 5D Mark IV is not a good low-light camera, but with Denoiser III, instead of having a maximum ISO of 1600 before noise became an issue, we were able remove noise all the way up to ISO 6400. When applying Denoiser III to Sony a7RIII and Canon 5D Mark IV footage, they both benefited.

That was when I decided to never ever anymore buy a plugin from them.As we stated before, with Denoiser III, you can gain up to three more stops without having to worry about noise. But when I then tried to claim any of those offered licenses - I just got silence. It was a very depressing thing to see how they just squeezed money out of them with almost zero effort into development.Īfter I complained to support several times about issues I had, they promised me to give me two licenses of my choice for free.

Then came MB 3 with a completely new interface.Īnd all the other plugins they bought together over the years - most of them never got any improvements in a decade a longer. But still had random red screen errors during final rendering. And they did not ever care to do something about this. Then they brought GPU acceleration via OpenGL - but when I changed to a much better graphics card speed did not improve a bit. Also came with a lot of errors like clipping super whites, render bugs. Then came MB II with a completely new interface - and zero backward compatibility so you had to redo everything in an old project. Got an expensive license back then in 2005 for their first Magic Bullet plugin for AFX which was really nice. Just wanna add that my experience with Red Giant hasn't been great either over the years.

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