Noise can be the bane of any image, but when you rely on a fairly clean image as a base for visual effects, it becomes crucial that the less noise there is the better. Here, Dawnrunner’s Geoff Peck shows how to use Dark Engery’s Anti-Matter plugin in After Effects to De-Noise shots easily.
Dark Energy is your next-gen weapon against noise, and your ally for better-looking images
There are plenty of De-Noising solutions for After Effects, some as part of the standard AE bundle, and other such as Neat Video’s DeNoise provide some great tools. The Dark Energy plugin for After Effects is composed of two modules, one for making noise and grain features, and the other for removing them, in Matter and Anti-Matter respectively. One of the main differences distinguishing Dark Energy is that the plugins is geared specifically for 4k.
The Dark Energy plugins are only for Windows, after a failed KickStarter attempt to bring Dark Energy to the macintosh back in September, falling drastically short of its goal to port the plugin to other software packages such as Avid, Resolve, NUKE, and SCRATCH – with a stretch goal for providing the plugins for OSX.
