How To Get Best Sharpening / Is There A Sharpening Mask?

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December 23, 2016
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Can you give me tips on how to sharpen videos WITHOUT it becoming very noisy and / or jaggy looking? (I am running windows 10 64-bit)

For instance: is there a way to mask the sharpening or limit the sharpening so that it only affects higher-contrast areas of a clip? (Similar to the way that lightroom allows you to mask the sarpening)?

I am not very satisfied with the built in sharpening. Is ther another FX that needs to be used in conjunction with Sharpening to make it look good? do I have to buy a plugin that costs more than the cost of Premiere elements to make the video look sharp?

I normally shoot a flatter profile with sharpening and contrast turned down.

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Steve Grisetti

Legend

The Sharpening effect can be found in the Blu & Sharpen category of video effects.

How much you can sharpen a video depends on the video itself. The process isn't the same as using an unsharp mask in Photoshop Elements -- but on a typical 1080p video, you should be able to sharpen to about 25 without things looking too sharp.

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Easy MarkAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you for your response, Steve. I appreciate it (and I appreciate your videos on youtube).

In your opinion, since it doesn't look like PE has a sophisticated sharpening system, would it make more sense to sharpen in-camera than relying on the sharpening in PE?

Or is there a plugin available for PE that doesn't cost $80

Thanks in advance.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

Best thing is to make sure your footage is sharp while filming.

There is this saying: garbage in, garbage out.

This certainly applies to unsharp footage.

BTW video is not the same as a still.

There is a little trick; might work, might not...

duplicate clip and superimpose

add sharpen to top clip

turn up value and drop opacity to 50%.

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