How to make a blurry video look clearer
Upload the footage to Vizard Agent and say what looks wrong with it. Vizard Agent builds a grid of frames and looks at the video properly before deciding anything, then checks which super-resolution and sharpening tools are available and picks an approach that suits what it actually saw.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Describe the symptom and the destination. Vizard Agent decides between upscaling, sharpening and grading by looking at the frames, and naming the destination tells it how far to push, since a video for a television needs restraint a phone clip does not. Send the best copy you have, because it sets the ceiling.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
"Make it clearer" covers three different problems: the picture is small, soft or compressed, and each has a different fix. So it looks at the picture before naming a treatment, and checks both what tools exist and whether a specific filter is even supported before committing, rather than finding out at render time. In the session behind this article it:
- Downloaded the video and checked its details and quality.
- Built a grid of frames to see the picture as a set and looked at it twice, because a first pass over a long video doesn't settle everything.
- Listed the available media generation and processing features and read how the super-resolution feature works.
- Checked that contrast-adaptive sharpening was supported by the encoder before planning around it, which saves a failed render rather than producing one.
- Delivered 230.37 seconds at 1080x2340, keeping the phone's own tall aspect ratio because the destination was the same phone it came from.
When does this not work well?
Enhancement redistributes and reconstructs what's already in the file. It can't recover detail that was never recorded, and anything that appears to add detail is inventing something plausible, which is fine on a phone and less fine on a large screen. A 480p source made 4K is a large soft picture, sharpening a blocky video makes the blocks crisper, and motion blur is permanent.
Common questions
Can it make an old video 4K? Vizard Agent can output at 4K, but a small soft original stays soft at any size.
Will it change how people look? Reconstruction can subtly alter faces. Tell Vizard Agent to keep it conservative if the people are recognisable.
Should I send the original or a copy? Always the original. Every re-encode between the camera and Vizard Agent throws away detail.