Neat Video & Neat Image community

Hi again neat video team...
just wanted to know if you guys will be putting out a neat video standalone
version any time soon. I truly believe that would be a very successful move.
You already have neat image as a plugin and a standalone...it would be so
convenient for users to have a standalone option without venturing into
another hard-to-learn application.
And what would be even further incredible is to provide external monitor
previewing (firewire) within this standalone....(still good to dream)LOL.

Thank you for the suggestion.

However it may be not really efficient to build a whole new application (which is not that easy in this particular case, believe me). Besides, there is a simple solution already: VirtualDub + Neat Video plug-in for VirtualDub. VirtualDub is not as complicated as other editors, it is easy to learn (setting up NV filtration takes 5-10 min for a beginner), it provides all the input/output support necessary to read various video formats and write them back as video files, while Neat Video provides the filtration functionality inside VirtualDub. This combination can be considered a standalone filter.

It would be mostly a dublication of efforts if we started to reproduce those basic input/output fuctionality just to build a standalone version of Neat Video. You would still have to learn how to use such a new application. In such circumstances, it is more efficient to use one of the existing plug-in hosts (the easiest is VirtualDub) and devote the development resources to improvement of the filter itself rather than dublication of existing functionality. You could also benefit from mastering a universal plug-in host like VirtualDub because you could also do other video processing things in it, separately or together with NV filtration.

I hope this explains our current position.

Thank you once again,

Vlad

VirtualDub rocks. It is rumored Steve Jobs moved to Intel CPUs just so he can run Windows and VirtuualDub on his iMac.


Just a rumor mind you. And started by me!