Don't use noise reduction in Lightroom, use THIS instead

I don't co-sign any of the other commenters, as I didn't listen through headphones, and I found your delivery informative, witty, light-hearted, concise, and specific.

As a relatively new photographer, the question I came away with was which software you use first, second, etc. Do you start with Topaz, move to Lightroom, use a third? Fourth? I'm tuning into this category of content in an effort to establish my workflow to develop efficiencies for scheduling, budgeting, etc.

I'll be tuning in for more of your videos.

Interested in where digital noise comes from.

You seem to have gotten a bit defensive about feedback on the audio here. When so many people are saying the same thing, you can't just "oh it's a problem on your end"
A bit disappointing to see.

thankyou bro!

Why cannot we select only the background for light denoising?

It's not very good. They seem to really want people to promote their software tho

mmmmmm my left ear is enjoying this.....

why i hear his voice in my left channel only?

At first, I was only wearing my right headphone when watching your vid. That made me realize that your audio channels are not stereo, as I thought you accidentally published a video without speaking :)

I bought their software on sale and I really like it! I’ve used it many times and I’ve definitely gone my money’s worth!

Hi Chris. Some observations about the video, with the hope that you will take it in a positive light to improve future content:

1. I like that you’re standing at the start of the video. The presentation is great.
2. The video gimmicks initially, I didn’t quite like and it looked over the top.
3. The actual introduction to DeNoise AI sounded very salesman-sy. Very cheesy and I am not generally a fan of that stuff. There are other noise reduction AI tools out there like ON1’s NoNoise AI and Luminar’s Noiseless AI. In certain occasions, NoNoise AI outperforms DXO’s tool. I think you should have mentioned it.
4. I shoot with a Fuji X-T30 and frankly, unless I am at a 4x zoom, I don’t see noise at 800 ISO. So, I think the “noise exists at ISO 200” is partially true. There’s noise which exists even at a camera’s base ISO but it is very easily corrected without AI tools and then there’s noise which may require masking etc., which is what we can achieve with AI tools.

Thanks for the tutorial.

PS: There’s also an online tool, Vance AI, that is extremely affordable at $5 for 100 credits.