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using web footage for HD TV program
Hi, I’m editing a documentary for HD broadcast. The only footage available of an important meeting was from a press conference that was posted on the internet. The clip I want to use is only 15 seconds long, but it is really poor quality. is there any way to improve it? it looks awful now, even at half size on a black background. I’ve played a bit with color correction, a flicker filter, and a stabilize filter too, but they didn’t help
any suggestions?
cheers,
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3 Replies
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Honestly, the odds of it ever looking good from the web download are very slim. You should really try to get hold of the people who posted it and make a deal with them for the use of their footage in it’s native format.
Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
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Arnie’s right: there is every chance the original footage the web files were made from still exists, you only have to do the legwork to get it.
I am a fan of batch actions in photoshop, and it might be that if you export the web video in maximum quality image sequence stills, you can find a combination of filters in photoshop that can be automated to apply to the whole image stack. You only have to noodle around witht he first frame of the stack, while recording your steps, then let the autoamtion take over the rest of the stills for you in minutes.
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First, I would use Keepvid.com to make sure you’re pulling down the highest version available from YouTube.
Then I would compose a virtual scene in Motion with some high-quality HD graphics, then put the video in a small window in the middle — perhaps even on a 3-D depiction of a computer monitor. You could even put some text on the screen explaining that it’s a youtube video so people would know why the quality is substandard.
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