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And there are a wide range of plugins provided by excellent third-party developers which can provide new ways of new using Premiere and enhancing your work. Denoiser cleans up artefacts in seconds Denoiser II, which is from the same Color suite as Look and Colorista 2 from Red Giant, is a personal favourite. It takes the noise out of footage, which I find particularly useful for ironing out any glitches in 3D renders. Denoiser cleans up artefacts in seconds rather than the hours that troubleshooting and re-rendering would take.