Can iMovie Sharpen a Video? Or any way to fix blurry videos with it?

[claybo89]

I found solutions online that they are all about fix grainy videos by adding filters? I'm wondering whether there are methods to fix blur in iMovie?

TIA

 

[AZhappyjack]

I found solutions online that they are all about fix grainy videos by adding filters? I'm wondering whether there are methods to fix blur in iMovie?

TIA

In a word, no. You may be able to apply filters to mask or improve certain aspects like color correction, and exposure issues (to some extent). It's been my experience that blurry/out of focus is pretty much something that you can't fix after the fact.

 

[lostless]

Its the whole garbage in, garbage out motif. Or something about polishing a ....... Doesn't matter, I digress. If there is no detail to work with, there is not much you can do.

 

[Moonjumper]

If you have a larger input resolution than you intend to output (for example, if you are using 4K iPhone footage to create an HD movie), you might get some benefits there. I haven't used iMovie in a while as I now use DaVinci Resolve (which is free), so don't know what options there are. In the DaVinci Resolve settings for Image Scaling, the Resize Filter can be set to Sharper.

 

[BrianBaughn]

For $200, Topaz Labs "Video Enhance AI" looks pretty impressive.

 

[hwojtek]

In a word, no. You may be able to apply filters to mask or improve certain aspects like color correction, and exposure issues (to some extent). It's been my experience that blurry/out of focus is pretty much something that you can't fix after the fact.

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Doesn't work for videos, though (yet).

 

[AZhappyjack]

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Doesn't work for videos, though (yet).

My reply stands. The answer to the OP's question is "no". Period.

 

[hwojtek]

My reply stands. The answer to the OP's question is "no". Period.

Export the video to a series of images, Smart Deblur & batch process. https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur/blob/master/dist/SmartDeblur-1.27-mac-v2.dmg

Reassemble the video from images.

Job done.

Period.

 

[960design]

If the RAW video is poor, then you are stuck with it ( except for some high end digital wizardry per frame and/or machine learning algorithms that can 'soften' the blur ). There is no way to 'add' information that is not there.

 

[AZhappyjack]

Export the video to a series of images, Smart Deblur & batch process. https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur/blob/master/dist/SmartDeblur-1.27-mac-v2.dmg

Reassemble the video from images.

Job done.

Period.

It will still be less than sharp... and that's a lot of work for no noticeable improvement.