What can vReveal do? — continued

Original

Enhanced with Clean, 2x Resolution, Sharpen, and Auto Contrast

Behold my keyboard in all of its grody glory! Thankfully, the 320x240 video masks how dirty it really is, and not even vReveal can restore that. The improved contrast is the most noticeable enhancement to this video, but Clean, Sharpen, and 2x Resolution also make hard edges appear more defined. The bottom edge of the space bar (going from black to silver) looks noticeably better, as does the line below it where the wrist rest meets the keyboard. vReveal wasn't able to restore some of the smaller symbols, although the larger lettering looks slightly clearer.

Our final clip is not one I shot myself. It's a short 640x480 video of a dog chewing on a bone while lounging on the couch. What a life.

Original

Enhanced with Clean, Sharpen, Auto Contrast, Stabilize, and Fill Light 50%

Because of this original video's resolution, we were unable to use the 2x Resolution algorithm. That's all right, though, because this clip's real problem is the dim lighting. There's a large amount of noise in the picture, and the entire image is underexposed. Clean and Sharpen cleared up a lot of the artifacts, but the image was still too dark, even after Auto Contrast did its thing. To help, we turned to the Fill Light feature, which did a good job of bringing out detail in the foreground without completely blowing out the brighter background.

The final image has noticeably more detail than the original, though vReveal isn't able to do anything about the extremely dark areas near the dog's body—the source video just doesn't have enough information. You might notice some slight cropping in the enhanced image, and that's due to the Stabilize feature we used for this video. The resulting clip didn't have subtle camera shakes anymore, although that came at the cost of some of the picture near the edges. That's certainly a worthwhile sacrifice, though.

Once again, we're left with a video that's been improved just about as far it can be with software. To improve the scene any further, the video would probably need to be shot again with better lighting.