How to make a unfocused video to be focused

[Trulyaaron12]

baiscally I was fliming a video on my camera. An I was thinking but in acatuality it wasnt in the end so it came out slightly blury. so I was wondering is their a way to bring the footage back ?

[Meg The Dog]

It depends on how "slightly" out of focus the footage is.

If it is only a little bit out of focus, you can try applying the Unsharp Mask effect (it masks the unsharpness) found in Effects > Blur and Sharpen > Unsharp Mask or the Sharpen effect found in Effects > Blur and Sharpen > Sharpen.

If it is anything more than just slightly out of focus, these effects will not do you much good.

MtD

[Richard M Knight]

One trick I have used is to make the less important areas of the frame more blured, this will fool the eye to make the important bits sharper.

[Ann Bens]

Out of focus is out of focus: I would not use the footage unless absolutely necessary.

The real solution is to re-shoot.

But I would go for Richards suggestion.

or

Copy/paste and superimpose to V2, add sharpen quite a bit and lower the opacity to say 50% (used to do this with old SD footage).