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Easy Mark
Inspiring
December 23, 2016
Question

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

  • 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
December 23, 2016

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
December 23, 2016

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.

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Easy MarkAuthor
Inspiring
December 23, 2016

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%.


Thank you for your suggestion, Ann;

I haven't experimented with it, but it seems that for best video IQ, a lot of people say to turn down contrast, saturation and sharpness in camera, and then add back in post.

Maybe they are expecting that it will be edited in Premiere PRO or FCP or in Resolve (instead of Premiere Elements) when they are making the suggestion to shoot with reduced contrast / reduced sharpness / reduced saturation???

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