I want to enhance my old past dance group cover video recordings. The original digi-cam recordings are long gone and have been uploaded to youtube. So I only manage to download the youtube versions which are heavily compressed already.
I notice there is Starlight Mini in my desktop app. Running Starlight Mini does not allow us to do any other adjustments, ie. frame rate, etc.
So do we run Starlight Mini first then increase the frame rate from 25fps to 60fps, etc?
Or do we 4K upscale, 60fps framerate. Then Starlight Mini?
Hi, do first Starlight Mini Upscale and after that frame rate change, otherwise you increase already super slow SLm rendering time. If there is enough storage left, you can export SLm as FFV1 or ProRes HQ and reimport for the frame Interpolation.
There are cons and pros doing frame interpolation, check results of choosen frame interpolation model and pay particular attention to unnatural “to smooth” movements, streaking, blurring, you can also import the video into Virtualdub and optical check frame by frame what it did.
…and check that there is no variable frame rate output when doing Interpolation (TVAI bug)
Would second what Mayday said, starting with enhancing the video with Starlight Mini and then go back for the frame interpolation steps. This will give you the cleaner pixels available for the frame interpolation step.
If I have a 60fps video and that would take just too long to render with Starlight Mini, would it make sense to first export the 60 fps video to 15 fps, then render with Starlight Mini and then interpolate?
This makes no sense to me importing 60fps and output 15fps, then 45 frames/s gets droped and after that increase the 15fps fps again by generating interpolated frames? What is the goal why interpolate, is 60fps not enough?
Eidt: ok now I understand, because SLm is so slow you wannt do this, but Interpolating also costs time and you get worser results doing interpolation, than give SLm the 60fps for the upscale without interpolation afterwards.
If there’s little to no motion, you could getaway with that. Personally, I think the artifacts from interpolating are not worth it. Just yesterday, I watched a video on YouTube that had clips form a film, and it took me all of 2 seconds to notice the interpolation artifacts because they put it in 60fps. It was really distracting. I’ll bet they even used TVAI to do the interpolation.
