Hello, I inherited some digitized Super-8 movies 15 years ago, the result was quite crap (Super-8->VHS->mp4, via some Photo-buissness), got some quite good results with iMovies's "steady cam" filter feature or what ever its called to get some smooth panning... The movies is quite grainy and out and of focus etc, is there any good software to fix that? If it's free it would be nice 🙂. Does Final Cut Pro makes any difference?
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Dirty Mac
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I'd say somewhat doubtful. I've tried with various programs, Topaz (expensive), Videoproc, etc. and using a win machine i7-13700k, 32g ram, amd rx6600 (not exactly high end specs) and a 480p video to get best detail possible with these programs could take up many hours even days depending on length and program settings for IMHO marginal results. My m4 mac pro was just as hopeless, even more so in someways due to no dedicated video card. Of course if you have Final Cut, try for the giggles, who knows?
BrianBaughn
macrumors G4
Presently, I don't think there's anything that gives great results for something like that.
Even going from 720p to 1440p seems to me to make a video "cartoony" in Topaz…which is probably the commercial standard of today.
Even going from 720p to 1440p seems to me to make a video "cartoony" in Topaz…which is probably the commercial standard of today.
bogdanw
macrumors G3
The last 90 days free trial of Final Cut Pro is still available for download. You can test if it does what you want.
Final Cut Pro 11.2 (macOS 15.6 or later)
https://secure-appldnld.apple.com/F...3-4103-a03c-c2783d103cbd/FinalCutProTrial.dmg
Dolphins1972
macrumors regular
Topaz is the best image and video restoration software at the moment. Topaz Starlight model is the best in industry currently for video restoration. Running it locally requires some serious machinery. https://docs.topazlabs.com/topaz-photo/system-requirements And those are just the basic requirements. Newer NVIDIA GPUs and M-series Macs are recommended. It takes a lot of trial and error to get the best results. I would get as many tutorials under your belt as possible before trying it out. For old grainy, out of focus videos, you want to recover as much detail as possible before running Starlight. You would probably start off with focus fix and then denoise, etc. It's way too expensive to use Topaz Studio (Cloud) so running it locally is really the only option.