We often see crisp, bright and super vibrant GoPro videos online. But it's nothing rare for GoPro owners to capture some bad quality videos with the camera - blurry with pixelated, jittery, noisy and the like. So how to improve those poor-quality GoPro videos? Is there any easy-to-handle GoPro video quality enhancer to recommend for post-production? Let's just find the answers below.
To begin with, it must be figured out that GoPro video may look awful for two reasons:
1. The video is born a terrible one.
2. The video only looks poor in quality when playback on screen or uploading online.
This post will mainly talk about how to enhance inherently bad quality video captured by GoPro, say for the first reason. If any stunning GoPro video only "becomes" a bad one for incompetent playback hardware/software or exporting/uploading quality reduction reason, please check how to fix GoPro playback errors and recommended YouTube video upload settings. Also, you're suggested to update your camera to the latest version with enhanced shooting performance.
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Note: The Windows version now supports AI-powered Super Resolution, Frame Interpolation, and Stabilization to enhance video and image quality. These AI features are not yet available in the Mac version but will be coming soon.
VideoProc Converter AI, a feature-laden video quality upscaler, delivers many ways to make poor GoPro videos look good. The following guide will show the methods one by one. Please free download the software on your computer first, Windows or Mac, and then install it by following the prompts.
Note: that you can keep it the same with input video or change to any other one you prefer.
Saturation refers to the color intensity of a video or image. Increasing saturation value will make the colors more present and noticeable.
As the name shows, it describes the overall lightness or darkness of your video. Adjusting it to a specified amount makes video better.
As the separation between the darkest and brightest areas of video image, you can increase it value to make video shadows darker and highlights brighter.
The visible light reflected from or transmitted through an object. Saturation is the intensity of hue, and brightness a degree of black white mixed with a given hue.
A numerical parameter to describe the relationship between pixel value and luminance between a pixel's numerical value and its actual luminance.
Unclean lense, insufficient light, lower shutter or higher ISO value may have GoPro create unwanted fuzzy video. To correct GoPro blurry video for better viewing experience, you can follow the same steps as WAY 1 above, but to employ sharpen video effect, increase contrast and brightness at STEP4.
With in-camera stabilization or not, GoPro machine still produces many shaking videos when shooting rough outdoor extreme adventures. The video quality enhancer software, VideoProc Converter AI, with a standalone GoPro Deshake feature, helps reduce the shakiness in clicks.
If your GoPro outdoor video comes across irritating background noise, especially the heavy and continuous wind noise, utilizing denoising feature of VideoProc Converter AI to reduce or remove the redundant audio with ease.
Alternatively, it's also a wise choice to lower audio volume if the noise is unobvious, or disable audio track completely and add attractive background music into video.
Actually there're many general methods to enhance amateur-looking GoPro footage into pro-looking one, two of which have been mentioned above. And they are adding appealing visual filter effect and balancing video parameters (between brightness, contrast, hue, gamma and saturation) respectively. In addition to this, VideoProc Converter AI can still improve GoPro video quality by other means.
Downscale bad-looking video, like change video resolution from 4K to 1080p. Or upscale video to fit for the end playback screen, e.g., to 1080p to 4K for watching on 4K TV.
Crop distorted video to get rid of the unwanted part. Trim or cut video to wipe out the bad quality fragment(s).
Upscale video to resolution of the end playback screen, for instance, to transfer 1080p to 4K for watching on 4K UHD TV.
Quicken the video playback speed to have somewhat choppy video become smoother.
Improper camera settings and adverse shooting environment are the main causes of GoPro bad video shooting. Before you get your GoPro to record, you'd better choose a suitable mode, field of view, with Protune on or off, and keep nice balance between IOS and shutter according to the real condition.
Light is the most crucial part in photography, therefore, it's much easier to make pesky video under low light indoor or underwater circumstance than others. In this case, try your best to move your lense to light sources and shooting video at 24fps is better than at higher frame rates.
To reduce shakiness and background noise as much as possible, GoPro has upgraded greatly by adopting efficient in-camera stabilization and 3-mic processing. But all GoPro owner know that they are just auxiliary functions, lagging far behind the external GoPro accessories, gimbals, rig, mouth, windslayer, just to name a few.
External reading:
[1] Hardware Acceleration [wiki]: In computing, hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware to perform some functions more efficiently than is possible in software running on a more general-purpose CPU...
A.J. McCann, started at Digiarty as a web editor and moved up to a tech writer later, focuses on giving all-around but lifestyle reviews & tips on hot gadgets, photography, multimedia post-production and related error solutions. Considering himself a master-of-none, he has a mania for daily reading covering a wide range of subjects. He also loves playing ball-games and practicing meditation in the leisure time.
VideoProc is a primary branch of Digiarty Software that is a leading multimedia software company founded in 2006. It endeavors to provide easier hardware-accelerated video audio editing and conversion solutions. The installed base of the VideoProc product has reached 4.6 million units from 180 countries since its release 5 years ago.
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