Video quality question
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I'm a little confused by your post. It sounds like you have a bad quality video to begin with, which you're then trying to watch on a larger screen, is that right? Poor quality or low resolution will of course always be more obvious on a larger screen.
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Magic Bullet makes a product called Instan HD, which is designed for up-res-ing footage and improving the quality. Its more designed for increasing the resolution of good quality footage without losing the quality though, rather than improving the quality of bad footage.
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Thanks for the people that take time to answer this question. I know there are a lot of video programs out there, but this is a little problem I ran into. I got a video, I cant even tell you the quality, but if I blow it up on a 20 inch monitor the edges of objects that should be smooth are now kind of block looking. I was wondering if there is a program to make the quality better so when I use a bigger monitor it will look like it should. I'm sure the quality was very low and compressed, it looks like a bad video on youtube if that helps. Thanks for any info.
Yes, Simon the quality is very low. When I watch the video on a larger screen the objects that should be smooth edges are blocky looking. It is the Star Trek Borg game bacck from 96, I want to make a interactive DVD for myself since it does not work with windows 7 tow well. I want to take the bad quality video, run it through a program and make it look nice on a larger screen. Thanks for you help!
Thanks Axel, I will give that a look and see if it can help. I did not know if Hitflim 1 or 2 could do that or even Vision lab. -
If it's FMV from the mid-90s, chances are it's tiny res (640x480 or below) and horrifically compressed.
You can't add data back into a low quality video to improve the quality. -
If it's FMV from the mid-90s, chances are it's tiny res (640x480 or below) and horrifically compressed.
You can't add data back into a low quality video to improve the quality.
That is so true, Simon. Last weekend a group came to me with some footage they had shot. They are going to be running the Artemis Simulator (multi-computer starship bridge simulator) at a local convention in a couple of weeks and had shot an introduction video for each scenario. I think they shot it in a kitchen with an older smart phone. It was low res, very grainy, and had a ton of echo. In short, it was unusable.
I ended up having to re-shoot the whole thing for them. I set up a green screen and my lighting kit along with a lav mic. It was role-playing games at our house that night anyway (d6 Star Wars), so while they rolled dice, I modeled a very simple Starfleet background and composited it with the footage I shot. They left happy with eight 30–90 second introduction videos.
So yeah, there are tricks to smooth the video a bit and clean up the audio (echo is a beast, though!). But you can't put back what was never there in the first place. -
But they do it all the time on crime shows. Freeze, and enhance!
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But they do it all the time on crime shows. Freeze, and enhance!
Yep. You have to love all those 4k security cameras!
