Hello I am a sports highlight reel editing company and customer provide me with a variety of clips to be edited into a highlight reel. The source of the clips varies but they are all pretty terrible, mostly coming from auto-cam such as veo or similar.
I edit in premiere pro and most clips around 10 seconds and are layered with at least two layers and some keying , with some image layers sandwiched between the video layers for effects.
Is it “better” for me to run each raw clip through topaz first before I edit? or wait until the premiere project is done and rendered, then run the finished video file through topaz?
If your sources are of varying quality, you’ll want to enhance them individually before editing and compositing because they’re going to need different enhancement settings to get them closer to each other.
If all the sources are of uniform quality, then it probably doesn’t make a difference whether you enhance before or after.
Thanks. The source video I get is really really really bad. Poor cameras, that are saved in highly compressed formats. Topaz is a great tool but even it cannot do much with this footage. There just isn’t enough detail to work with. Even starlight can’t do much with the footage. I noticed the difference, but I have a trained eye. My guess is that 99% of the customer and viewers wouldn’t notice a difference if I didn’t tell them. My point it that I’m not running this footage through topaz to get them to all look alike. I’m just trying to get each crappy clip to look a little less crappy.
You can try “Dual-Starlight” renders, means first step do minimum Starlight resolution and second pass again to min. resolution, or do 2x. This gives the max. detail recovery, but could also lead to unusable results, because when there are artefacts, they also gets accumulated.
