Any way to save horribly shot footage?

ChopSticks · Jan 29, 2018

I took a really big trip last year (motorbiked Vietnam North to South) and most of the shots I took were a bit rushed now that I look over the footage. I thought the original blurriness was due to the -1 sharpness setting but I have some videos that look really crisp (same settings) but the others are blurry and the fog/overcasts weather definitely didn't help

Is there anyway to make all of the footage look really sharp and nice again? I filmed everything at 4k 30fps d log. Would it be possible to downgrade everything to 1080 to salvage the view-ability? Complete noob with DaVinci Resolve. Any recommendations or links would be greatly appreciated thanks

Plawa · Jan 29, 2018

If they're blurry because they're out of focus there's not much you can do to save them... been there, done that, had to cheat - see 2:29 in this video

MadValley · Jan 29, 2018

You may be able to salvage - as in improve - some of it but that would be on a case by case basis and some might be beyond help. This is a situation where you'll have to start hitting the learning curve of whatever software you want to use. Resolve is a good choice, I use Vegas, others might have some things you can do in Premiere or Final Cut. Your first step is figuring out what is wrong with each shot - over exposed, over saturated colors, under exposed, whatever - and research what fix the software you're using can apply. You might also try grabbing a frame as a still and processing that to see what you can do. It'd be faster than trial and error on a whole clip.

ChopSticks · Jan 30, 2018

Plawa said:
If they're blurry because they're out of focus there's not much you can do to save them... been there, done that, had to cheat - see 2:29 in this video

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Yeah looks exactly like 2:29

... I guess at this point any other creative "cheats" I can employ? The shots are more for the feeling/memory than visual I just don't want it to take away from the main story