How to enhance image detail?

[Michael Gissing]

I played with sharpen luma and sharpen RGB. The RGB option was interesting because it gave control over the sharpening based on a dominant color. The shot I played with was a snow covered mountain range in the distance and I was trying to sharpen it through atmospheric haze without making the foreground greens (apple orchard) go all electronic. I was able to get the bluish mountains to sharpen that way.

In the past I have used the Lyric Masked sharpening to help out of focus shots. A lot depends on noise with any of these tools of course.

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

I can’t try it fright this second but this does indeed sound like what I am looking for.

[Rafael Amador]

No hesitation: NeatVideo.
If you find something better, please tell us.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[David Eaks]

Curious if you tried sharpening your footage with NEAT yet. If so, did you get the results your hoping for?

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

Just to let everyone know – I wound up going with the lyric stuff. It seemed to be the best for the price. I did not even try Fx Factory pro as I did not want to fall in love with something that expensive and then have to settle for something cheaper. Fx factory could readily be better but I am very satisfied and almost shocked at how good the lyric stuff is.