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Brigitte Rasche replied to the discussion How to improve old videos in the forum DaVinci Resolve

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:35:23 +0000

I’m working with sharpen and blur in Resolve and it looks good. Some of the episodes have too dark parts or the saturation is too high but I leave them mostly as they are, they have a kind of charme as they are proof of the time when they were created. It anyway depends on which screen they are playing, my laptop look is of course not the same as…

Brigitte Rasche replied to the discussion How to improve old videos in the forum DaVinci Resolve

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:23:25 +0000

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I’d like to get the videos a better look and Resolve is doing this quite alright. Have tried Topaz but it took a long time for a test of 10 min and the result was not overwhelming. Should maybe try some more of their templates but they are too expensive and my laptop became quite hot during the rendering process.
I do know the Amazon offer but…

Brigitte Rasche replied to the discussion How to improve old videos in the forum DaVinci Resolve

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 12:46:46 +0000

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No it isn’t a paid job, it’s just for myself as I love this old serie when it was running on TV in the 70/80s I think. It’s called NAM Tour of Duty and I’d like to improve the episodes as good as possible but I will not spent moey on Topaz e.g. which I have used years ago for other videos.
I got the advice to import the clips in their original…

Brigitte Rasche replied to the discussion How to improve old videos in the forum DaVinci Resolve

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:31:27 +0000

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Yes I have tried the blur and sharpen toll, works fine. First I’m going to finish the basic work on each episode and after will watch them on TV see see on that bigger screen what parts might need some more improvement. There is also some work to do on the audio but that is easy to do. It is really overwhelming what opportunities Resolve Studio if…

Brigitte Rasche replied to the discussion How to improve old videos in the forum DaVinci Resolve

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:58:00 +0000

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I used Topaz Video enhancer years ago and was not much impressed but it is now very much better as I could see with a test video clip. Problem is just that it takes a long time to render a 45 min. video and I have 58 episodes to improve, I’m afraid I don’t live long enough. 😄 Apart from that is the price really tough.

Your other suggestion wasn’t…

Brigitte Rasche started the discussion How to improve old videos in the forum DaVinci Resolve

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:00:11 +0000

How to improve old videos

Hi, I try to improve episodes of an old TV serie and have changed the video data with Handbrake but I’m not overwhelmed with the result after imported into Resolve.

Shall I rather import the original clips in Resolve and change the project settings there? Problem is just that Resolve won’t let me import the .wmv files.

Following are the settings of…