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jriker1
27th August 2023, 23:42
Wasn't sure where to put this in the forum so just stuck with the final output format. I have a Fast & Furious Tokyo Ddrive Blueray that is garbage. 4k and the transfer or upscale was done super poorly. I want to clean and sharpen this video hopefully better than the studio did. Is there any good suggestions on how to do this? Note I do this all the time with footage but most of the time it's more around noise reduction than sharpening a super smoothed out video. Use NeatVideo in Premiere Pro when doing this but in general NeatVideo sharpening is minimal in a good way, although I do leave the oversharp protection turned on in the plugin. Any suggestions in this case how to improve video clarity so it's sharper and cleaner?
RanmaCanada
28th August 2023, 01:14
This would be more for an editing section, would it not? I don't know if you can improve it. It might be easier to just go back to the source, be it the bluray or dvd, and use AI upscalers yourself?
jriker1
29th August 2023, 00:10
This would be more for an editing section, would it not? I don't know if you can improve it. It might be easier to just go back to the source, be it the bluray or dvd, and use AI upscalers yourself?


Thanks. Source is 4k with horrible upscaling by the studio on the BlueRay. Unfortunately it is the source in my case.
RanmaCanada
29th August 2023, 01:22
Then I would just buy the original bluray it was upscaled from if possible, and then upscale it myself.
jriker1
29th August 2023, 01:46
I did NeatVideo to denoise and also a slight sharpening of the denoising thru NeatVideo. Then added in unsharp mask and tweaked that a bit. Running it thru encoding in Premiere now so will see how it comes out. Seemed promising.
RanmaCanada
10th October 2023, 02:19
Sorry for necroing this but I was wondering if you had a chance to play around with any AI upscalers to resolve this? ChaiNNer (https://github.com/Sirosky/Upscale-Hub/wiki/%F0%9F%93%BA-How-to-Upscale-a-Video-Using-chaiNNer-(Step-by-Step)) is one that recently came to light for myself and I've used it on some anime with great results. The hardest part might be getting the right models for your project.