Need help with short nighttime low res video of a bear

lauriemessage wrote on 10/9/2022, 2:57 PM

A bear passed through last night and briefly sniffed our grill, lol. The footage caught on our security cam is low resolution, andt we could not improve it much in Video Pro X. If anyone can make a sharper. somewhat lighter version, please let me know. Here's a link to download the short video https://we.tl/t-AIjpJzwQ9Y Thanks!

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AAProds wrote on 10/9/2022, 8:23 PM

Obviously no snags left on the barbie.

Using Movie Edit Pro, the best I could do was, in Brightness/Contrast, use Auto Exposure. I tried some noise reduction with Neta Video but didn't have a lot of success.

Others might be able to do better.

I'd suggest you post it on Videohelp. There are some absolute AVISynth wizards there that should be able to improve it better than VPX.

All my forum comments are based on or refer to my System 1.

My struggle is over! I built my (now) system 2 in 2011 when DV was king and MPEG 2 was just coming onto the scene and I needed a more powerful system to cope. Since then we've advanced to MP4 and to bigger and bigger resolutions. I was really suffering, not so much in editing (with proxies) but in encoding, which just took ages. A video, with Neat Video noise reduction applied, would encode at 12% of film speed. My new system 1 does the same job at 160% of film speed. Marvellous. I'm keeping my old system as a capture station for analogue video tapes and DV.

System 1

Windows 11 v23H2 severely modified by Openshell and ExplorerPatcher

Power supply: 850W Cooler Master (should have got modular)

CPU: Intel i7 13700K running at 3400mhz, cooled by a Kraken 2x140mm All In One liquid cooler.

RAM: 64gb (2x32gb sticks) G.Skill "Ripjaws" DDR4 3200Mhz

GPU 1: iGPU UHD 770

GPU 2: NVidia RTX 3060Ti Windforce 8gb

C drive: NVME 500gb

Various other SSD and HDDs.

Monitor: 27"/68cm Samsung, 2560 x 1440, 43 pixels/cm.

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

Magix Video Easy version 7.0.1.145

System 2

(Still in use for TV and videotape capture)

Windows 10 v22H2

CPU: i5-750 at 2670mhz with 12gb RAM

Onboard IEEE1394 (Firewire) port

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4770 (512mb) which is ignored by MEP

Hard drives: C Drive 256gb SSD, various other HDDs.

Monitor: Dell 22"/56cm, 1680x1050, 35 pixels/cm

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

VPX 12

lauriemessage wrote on 10/10/2022, 10:15 AM

Obviously no snags left on the barbie.

Using Movie Edit Pro, the best I could do was, in Brightness/Contrast, use Auto Exposure. I tried some noise reduction with Neta Video but didn't have a lot of success.

Others might be able to do better.

I'd suggest you post it on Videohelp. There are some absolute AVISynth wizards there that should be able to improve it better than VPX.

Right you are, there was nothing very fresh on the barbie . . . fortunately!

We tried the same as you with the video. Thanks for the tip about posting on Videohelp.