Treating lo-res footage ..?

[dmiraie]

Hi, video editing noob here..

Can anyone give me any advice on how to treat this less-than-optimal 1080 footage to hopefully improve it a bit?

FYI I've already tried sharpening, desaturation, and boosting the black output, and I'm wondering if there's anything else that can be done (ie magic plugins, etc).

Thnx!

[Ann Bens]

Please post a clip analyzed in Mediainfo in treeview here on the forum

Better yet can you upload a short clip to test.

MediaInfo windows

MediaInfo Mac

[Jim_Simon]

What's wrong with it?

[chrisw44157881]

unsharp everything but the shadows using a luma matte. and if resizing, use bicubic filtering. that's about all you can do unless you have an intelligent resizer using motion adaptive interpolation. maybe a dash of neatvideo and color correction. you can only do so much.

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[Ann Bens]

To be honest this does not look like 1080 footage which is always widescreen.

This looks more like SD 4:3.

[dmiraie]

My bad, yes it's technically upscaled 4:3 DVD footage

[Ann Bens]

Is this the same footage as in the other thread?

[dmiraie]

Yes, this is the upscaled DVD footage..  I'll try using Red Giant on the vob file and report back