How to edit PS2 gameplay footage in Adobe Premiere Pro?

[Spirited_Breeze2475]

I’ve been capturing PS2 gameplay  using an emulator and want to clean it up and edit it in Adobe Premiere Pro. Some footage looks pixelated or has interlacing issues — especially from older titles.

What’s the best way to upscale, deinterlace, or enhance PS2 video clips in Premiere Pro for YouTube or social media? Any plugin or export settings you’d recommend for retro gameplay?

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

Upscaling, deinterlacing and enhancing is best done with Topaz Video Enhance AI 

Once that is all done you can edit the footage in Premiere Pro.

[Spirited_Breeze2475]

I’m working on a video project that features cutscenes from PS2 games , and I want to give them a more polished, cinematic look using Adobe Premiere Pro. The footage is low-res and has some colour banding.

What’s the best workflow or preset settings in Premiere to enhance PS2 cutscenes? Any tips for aspect ratio correction, colour grading, or audio syncing would be super helpful!

[Thomus shelby]

In Premiere Pro, use “Always Deinterlace” under Field Options and the “Detail-preserving Upscale” effect, then adjust sharpness in Lumetri. Recording in the emulator at a higher internal resolution helps a lot — I do this for my Bus Simulator Indonesia MOD APk guides, and it saves tons of cleanup later.

[Ann Bens]

@Thomus shelby 

There is no “Detail-preserving Upscale” effect iin Premiere: that is an Ae effect.