Detail Preserving Upscale In After Effects CC
Danielyan Garay
Likely simply a conflict in hardware acceleration usage, as both AMe rendering and CAF use it. Without any system information and other details there's no way to know any of that. the first thing to try would be to render directly from AE, anyway, and see if it works at all.
I just confirmed that it's Detail-preserving Upscale bugging Media Encoder render for whatever unknown reason. I edited in AE without it and just upscaled normally to 178% and Media Encoder finally finished it without issues.
I just feel more comfortable in Ae, but the main reason is I wanted to use also the preserve upscale all in one setup. if I did this in premiere, I would have to jump to a few hoops to make both apps work on the same footage each with its own effect .
If you want to be able to read the card the actor is holding then your best option is to reshoot the card being held in his hand. The original footage simply does not have enough detail to get a really readable card. Even though this is only a close up of your screenshot I can tell that the footage is not very sharp to begin with.
Transferring that shot into AE and using detail preserving upscale may help a bit but the upper limit is probably about 150% and it doesn't do very well when there is very little detail to work with in the first place.
can you show us high quality still frame of this shot? or maybe the whole shot? how good is good enough? you can probably improve this shot in post by placing a new card on top with some compositing work but we need to see the shot. if you enlarge the footage 120%, but make the card with bigger more readable fonts, I think this could work. it all depends in the story of course.
zooming in the shot above 120% will look bad. as for the card, if you have it in high quality from another shot, you cut it out in photoshop, and place in Ae on top of the original instead and that's the most you will get. if that's good enough, then share your shot - produce a high quality H264 and share it here, also share the card in the best quality you can find. we can see if with some compositing magic this shot could be saved. if nothing works, there's always subtitles
this requires trial and error. could be decent, could be not. you decide. if re-shoot is really a problem, I would try and save this shot or pay someone who will. it looks fine to me but with compositing it could look better. all depends on how critical you are about this.
ok for the latest issue solved..the mask visibility was disable..now i can see your mask and i see the same thing..with upsaling the mask is not anymore on the card..but it doesnt matter then..it will affect the card anyway..so good
you don't have too, I just wanted to use two filters since upscaling effect wasn't enough. so the first effect is the unsharp mask applied to a moving mask on the card, the seconds takes this whole things and scales it using the preserve detail feature of the detail preserve effect.
I'm reaching out for some guidance on enhancing the recorded footage of my dashcam. I've got both Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro downloaded and ready to go, but I could really use some assistance in utilizing their AI upscaling features. I'm looking for a straightforward approach to take my dashcam footage to the next level in terms of clarity and overall quality.
I've heard that Adobe's software can work wonders with AI-based video upscaling, and I'm excited to learn how to make the most of it. So, if anyone's well-versed in these tools and could provide me with a simple step-by-step guide or tips, I'd be extremely grateful. I'm eager to enhance my dashcam videos before sharing them with others. Thanks a bunch in advance for your expertise!
Read the online help on the detail preserving upscale effect in AE. Other than that there's no magic solutions to it. Some footage simply will remain terrible and the effect doesn't take care of color issues, blown out footage from sunlight and whatnot. Rather than asking broad and generic questions you need to show us frames/ screenshots or the actual footage and explain what you want to enhance. In fact now that I think about it you probably will need to start by stabilizing the footage to eliminate jitter and jolting.
While browsing, I came across a relevant thread that directly pertains to my question. The thread is about upscaling After Effects Composition from HD to 4K, which is similar to upscaling dashcam footage to a higher resolution. Here's the thread I'm referring to: -effects-discussions/upscale-after-effects-composition-hd-to-4k/...
This discussion extensively covers the procedure for upscaling After Effects compositions from HD to 4K. One noteworthy suggestion within the thread is the utilization of the "ScaleUp" plugin to leverage AI technology for scaling within both Premiere Pro and After Effects, as highlighted by @Roland Kahlenberg, who recommended this source:
I intend to incorporate the recommended tools in order to ensure the efficacy of this solution. My primary goal is to achieve an upscale that preserves intricate details, thereby enhancing overall image quality.
4K video resolution has become the norm for projects with high production values. However, by the time it comes to edit everything, you might not always have 4K footage at your disposal.
Check out the difference in results below. The left image is a simple stretch, no upscaling applied. On the right side, the detail is noticeable in the rock and background areas. This approach really improves the footage when you upscale.
Our method will use Detail-preserving Upscale in After Effects to increase the size up image in a smart way. Essentially, this interpolation technique preserves detail better than stretching the pixels.
On the Effect Controls panel, click on Fit to Comp Width. This upscales the footage to cover the width of the canvas. You can also tweak the Scale amount precisely if you want the clip to go even larger, for example.
Some software companies claim that their method for upscaling footage is superior, and it is possible to imagine some secret sauce that makes some solutions better than others. Check out these other tools as options for upscaling to 4K:
All of these templates are available with the same subscription that unlocks stock footage, photos, and more. Master Premiere Pro by downloading creative templates for titles, intros, lower thirds, essential graphics, and much more.
There are a bunch of motivations to upscale a video. Content creators might have the impulse to resize 1080p to 4K before uploading it to YouTube, in an attempt to make it look better after mandatory compression by the platform. Or, you have shot multiple clips with different resolution, and want to merge them into one video without black bars or cropped frames.
Before we start, it's good to know that pixels cannot be created out of nothing. It is a guess work to resize frames. To illustrate, for a 1080p video, you only got 2 million some pixels to play with, while 4K has 8 million some pixels. So, if you stretch (scatter) the original 2 million pixels in a 3840x2160 frame, there are 6 million holes to be filled, and these non-existing pixels are created based on adjacent pixels. The more we know about the adjacent pixels, the more accurate it will be.
Premiere Pro includes a simple algorithm to do this guess work. If you want to maximize details, it's better to use plug-ins or "details preserving upscale" effect in After Effects via dynamic link. Or you can rely on another lightweight video scaler that adopts motion adaptive pixel scaling algorithm that estimate finer resolution data and generate new pixels automatically. Jump to auto-upscaling tutorial>
It will rasterize the footage and in the scale property. After scaling, you will see the value is still 100%. The drawback is, let's say you scale 4K to 1080p, the next time when you want to zoom in, it will calculate pixels based on the downscaled 1080p.
Step 4. Zoom-in your video to check if there are artifacts such as noises that are too conspicuous to tolerant. If you prefer a sharper image, you can apply unsharp mask to compensate for the blurred image.
Though there is no "Detail-preserving Upscale" effect in Premiere like Adobe's other software such as After Effects and Photoshop, you can upscale a video in Premiere Pro with the help of dynamic link, which opens up After Effects from Premiere timeline and readily resize your video. Then you can head back to Premiere for further editing tasks. But this upscaling method is hardware demanding as it utilizes Premiere and After Effects simultaneously. For those of you with a high-spec desktop, follow these steps:
As you might already know, upscaling is programmed as an effect in Premiere, and it takes some time to render for real-time preview. Later when you add other GPU-intensive effects, your computer slows down and CPU overheats.
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