Video editing / enhancement

Nathan

Nathan

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High Desert- Calif.
In recent times I've been trying various video enhancement software and online services to try to clarify some of the streaming videos that we've produced.
Results have been less than stellar, the AI driven video editing is just still in it's infancy, not delivering as hoped and hyped. We shot our fitness videos with a good quality camera, a Canon EOS M50. Our mistake was streaming(not my decision), streaming to Facebook and Youtube using OBS Studio, and other services. The videos came out at a lower resolution, blurry. FB and YT apparently cut down the bitstream, due to bandwidth concerns. I'm trying to 'rehab' these videos, but really haven't achieved much improvement beyond doing an ffmpeg upscaling in Linux.
I'm willing to spend $$ for a software suite to do the job, IF it would do the job.

Does anyone have a video enhancement app to recommend?
 

Depends on how much you want it done automatically vs how much of a learning curve you will endure. DaVinci Resolve is a free, top notch professional video editing, color correction, audio editing and post processing system. There are tons of tutorial videos on YouTube. I have just scratched the surface myself, but it has already upped my video game tremendously. The free version has all the professional quality tools and effects that you need.
 
I use in simple ways Adobe Premiere Elements 2021 that is about $80. Most of my few dozen uploaded Youtube videos are GoPro 8 snow skiing. Whatever video editor, placing video files on free sites as Youtube will necessarily result in severe compression because video files require a huge amount of data. But yeah if one pays Google and also has a full bandwidth T3 fiber Internet line with a powerful workstation computer, one can actually watch 1080p level videos online. Otherwise Youtube free level is minimally passable with much digital noise and artifacts.
 

I use Adobe Premiere Pro - and have a qualification from Adobe in it's use. It's not cheap though. I've played with the free "Davinci Resolve" and it's pretty good for zero outlay!
 
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