Filmulator "Nightly" Builds: Now for Windows and Linux

[CarVac]

Thanks for the feedback, this is exactly what I was hoping for.

@Michael_Berg

Just wanted to ask about the LMMSE demosaicing, are you aware of any issues with this with x-trans CFA’s?

I should clarify the wording in the tooltips, LMMSE is only used on Bayer raws.

@Michael_Berg

preview noise reduction settings on a selected rectangle in stead of the full image

Previewing on a small region is going to be… challenging to implement, but I agree it’s probably necessary. I’ll probably need to make some sort of bypass to the Filmulation algorithm, which won’t work reasonably on small crops.

@Michael_Berg

The sliders are also not quite so intuitive to use and the max value of the first slider leaves the image in a pretty unusuable smeared state. Why the need to pull it so far beyond realistically usable levels?

Because high values may be useful for extremely high ISO images like this one: Hockey game under lights: 20k ISO on m4/3

@Michael_Berg

Also the sliders could use some tooltips, and some reasonable default values based on the ISO of the image being edited.

Everything has tooltips, it’s on the name of the tool so that the tooltips don’t bother you while you’re manipulating the slider. Try pressing the Help button in the top right to make tooltips appear instantly.

Instead of guessing at reasonable defaults, I might actually make Filmulator keep a moving average of your NR settings for each ISO for each camera… does that sound good?

@Michael_Berg

In the discussion leading up to this build I kept reading that you didn’t want to use any kind of luminance noise reduction, only chroma. Yet the first slider is both luma+chroma. Did you change your mind?

I didn’t use RawTherapee’s luma noise reduction that was built into the same code as their chroma NR. The luma+chroma noise reduction currently in Filmulator is an independently developed nonlocal means implementation.

I was originally going to use nonlocal means for just luminance NR, but it proved better for very high ISO images to use both luminance and color from nonlocal means, then feed that output into the chroma NR from RawTherapee.