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Low Quality source video in Final Cut Pro
Hya everyone here at creative cow,
I mostly edit videos because I enjoy it, using footage taken with whatever I have avaliable. This normally means a mobile phone.
I have been working on footage that dates back 6 years, and understandably some of the footage is tiny, and some of it is a lot bigger (from 176 x 144 right up to HD).
I am not bothered so much about quality, the content is more important, but I’m sure a lot of you will be cringing at the thought of ancient .3gp footage mixed with HD 🙂
The problem is that the low quality clips, understandably, stick out like a sore thumb, in terms of contrast, saturation and the like.
When I use filters to try and enhance the clips it just brings out the noise.
Can anybody reccomend stock FCP filters to subtley give the video a more uniform look (perhaps applied to all of the clips, not just the low quality ones?)
Many thanks,
Al
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3 Replies
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The “make cell phone video look like HD video” does not exist. You can buy filters that help in making SD video cleaner when uprez’ed to HD but there is still a difference.
You should be bringing the HD video down to SD, the cell phone video up to SD and then try to get them to match as best as you can, there is no drop a filter fix for this, you will be spending a lot of time making them match.
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Ok, thanks Michael. It doesn’t really seem worth it going through matching each individual clip when at the end of the day, it’s still going to be low quality 3gp.. Instead I’ll spend some extra time getting the soundtrack perfect 🙂
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I still would work in SD. I would also just float the 3gp stuff in the window. You can send a little time to make it look better but it would be a ton of time trying to get it all to match (and not succeeding)
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