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How to enhance image detail?
Unfortunately I had the detail turned down on one of my cameras in my multicam shoot so it looks noticeably softer. While I can and probably will indeed soften the rest a bit more, there has to be something I can do other than use the sharpen filter built into FCP. I don’t know exactly what the detail on a camera does but I imagine it specifically speaks to possibly edge enhancing and the like. If you folks have any ideas of external filters (even if they aren’t free) I would be more than appreciative.
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You could try NEAT Video, it is a great tool to have at your disposal. Alongside it’s excellent noise reduction capabilities is the “Smart Sharpening” feature (Basic: one sharpness slider, or Advanced: adjustment of sharpness/noise by either- Channel (Y, Cr, Cb) or Frequency (High, Mid, Low)).
There is a free demo, it only applies to 640×480 pixels, has a watermark and high-bitdepth rendering is disabled. Be sure to buy the Pro version if your working in HD.
Here’s a link to the product feature’s page on their website-
https://www.neatvideo.com/featuremap.html
Be aware that LONG render times are involved!
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Without seeing the footage, it’s hard to say, but more than once I’ve been able to sharpen a tiny bit, and lower black levels on footage to make it acceptable.
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How do the unsharp mask or sharpen filters look?
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The sharpening in Compressor is more advanced than the tools in FCP
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I already own this filter. I never thought about using it for anything other than noise reduction.
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I have used the Lyric unsharpen mask filter in FCP and it is superior to the FCP filter. I have also played briefly with the sharpen filters in FX Factory and they have a lot of options for sharpening. The brief play was fairly impressive.
So if you want to keep it inside FCP then try FX Factory or Lyric.
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I have found a page with what appears to be every filter that FX Factory makes. Did you use any one of the sharpening filters specifically?
https://www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactorypro/plugins/
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I will look into this but I do not believe this will be extreme enough.
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Interesting option
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Too noisy and artificial.
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