Video Enhancing

If you mean to improve the resolution of videos, and looking for solution for low res videos, I recommend you to try HitPaw Video Enhancer. It can increase video resolution up to 8K. But it has a slight disadvantage, it requires a little waiting time.

Why do you want to upscale to 1080p?

It won't improve the quality of the video but it will make your files over five times bigger!

There are several apps on the market that claim to upscale and give better quality and there are video reviews where the reviewers show clips and says you can see the difference.

Suffice it to say that I have never seen any significant improvement and I have concluded that the reviewers have been indulging in a bit of wishful thinking.

Maybe you can try AVClabs Video Enhancer AI. I have tried the free trial version of it, I think it can meet the basic need of upscaling video (maybe?). But to be honest, I am not sure about the effect compared to other tools cause I have not tried them.

Hi Rich,

I used HitPaw Video Enhancer to fix my blurry videos several times. Compared with the source video, I think the output video quality is pretty good, it becomes clearer and that's what I want. Therefore I bought one month subscription -- $39.99. But as I mentioned before, the fly in the ointmentit is that it requires a certain waiting time. Hopefully HitPaw will continue to optimize performance.

Hi, Ian,

Comparing the before and after screen shots that you posted, I do see, as you did, some improvement with the enhanced video, particularly in the background details. I don't know if the difference is significant enough to wait 2 minutes to enhance 2 seconds of video.

I took an old .avi clip and ran it through Handbrake using its sharpen and noise filters, and noticed some improvement in Handbrake's version versus the original. I wonder if you could run your original clip through Handbrake, using my Handbrake settings (below) and compare Handbrake's rendered version with HitPaw's.

-- Rich

I believe in being fair so I tried another file . . . a 10MB .mp4 with a very poor copy of a VHS recording.

My iMac is fairly powerful but it took around 2 minutes to enhance 2 seconds of VHS quality video.

Superficially the video gives the impression of being improved . . . it has much more bite and is very clean . . . however, that bite is not resolution as can be seen from the number plate of the car.

In the original it can be just about read but in the enhanced version it is completely illegible.

Thanks, JorshuaCool,

Looks like HitPaw would be a good tool when enhancement is needed. $39.99 sounds a little expensive for just a one month subscription, but then the app likely wouldn't be needed that frequently.

-- Rich

JorshuaCool --

HitPaw looks very promising based on its website. I figured that AI eventually would evolve to address video enhancement at the consumer level. According to the website, one must be running at least the Catalina operating system.

Have you tried HitPaw yourself? If so, were you happy with the results? How much $ did it cost, or did you use the free version?

-- Rich

I decided to put my prejudice and common sense to one side and see what magic HitPaw could perform.

So I downloaded it onto my Monterey 27" iMac, launched it and dropped a small 45MB .mov file onto it.

After watching the spinning beachball for a minute or so I had to ForceQuit . . . four times.

So unfortunately I cannot comment on its efficacy.

I tried Handbrake using the recommended settings but cannot detect even the slightest difference.

The one on the right is the Handbrake version.

Hi, Ian,

I don't see any difference, either, with the Handbrake version.

Thanks for taking the time.

--Rich