Magic Bullet Instant HD Advanced, is this true ?

[Ahmed28]

I just found this program with google

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/categories/enhancement/magic-bullet-instant-hd-adv/

One of the features is

super-resolution algorithm for providing actual resolution enhancement

So basically it allows to make a low resolution video become better ?

[Dark Shikari]

"Super-resolution" generally means one of two things, depending on the marketing department:

1. An upscaling algorithm better than bilinear. There are plenty of free ones in this field, in particular NNEDI, which is pretty much the best.

2. An upscaling algorithm that uses information from neighboring frames to improve detail in the current frame.

Neither of these is ever a magic bullet.

[Ahmed28]

I see, so if I record a scene using my cellular's cam, the result is very blocky, since the resolution is very low in nature, to make it better, I need to upscale it with it or with NNEDI, the freeware one ?

[Dark Shikari]

I see, so if I record a scene using my cellular's cam, the result is very blocky, since the resolution is very low in nature, to make it better, I need to upscale it with it or with NNEDI, the freeware one ?Of course not; blockiness can't be magically fixed by upscaling. If its blocky at a low resolution, it'll look even worse at a high one.

[dat720]

Ahmed28, you can't add detail thats not there in the firstplace, you can sharpen a video and adjust various properties, but chances are it's never going to look much better than it wass originally, especially if it is blocky.

[Ahmed28]

@Dark Shikari, Dat720, thanks for the enlightement, I encounter several sharewares which claims to make a video better, so I realize it just an upscaling methods =)

[Sharktooth]

or filtering to mitigate artifacts (deblocking, deringing, denoising, dehaloing, antialiasing, etc...) or other disturbing aspects of the video.
that doesnt necessarily mean more quality though...

[dat720]

The best way to get a good quality video imo is to start with a quality source.... you can waste so much time gaining little on poor source material.