Upscaling/ de-noising low-light video's

[Rockel83]

I'm using a Gopro Hero12 to record my journeys in Latin-America at the moment. And due to it's smaller image sensor then other camera's at the moment like DJI Action 4/5 or the Insta360 Ace Pro, it's not that really bad in low light with the apropriate (advanced) settings.

I was able to record some pretty decent footage in pitch black caves and mines. But the footage lacks "stabilasation" and is a bit grainy when looking good (but still pretty usable).

Other action cams like the Ace Pro use AI to compensate low light recording. Something that you can do in post edit also (at least you can apply the settings and "intensity" yourself then).

So as stated, the aquired recordings are not terrible and just needing a "final touch". But I'm looking for some editing software to use for this now. Especially now I came across some offers for VideoProc.

I need to point out that I already have a license of Davincy Resolve Studio, which has a lot of powerfull options for video editing (I believe it also uses AI to some level). But I just switched to Resolve and didn't had the time to dive into it (and I don't have my laptop with me now).

So my actual question now. Will Davincy Resolve Studio do a good job for upscaling/ de-noising low light footage? Will it use AI too in this example? Or will it be better to look for the AI alternatives like VideoProc at current offer? Or maybe look for a better alrernative like Topaz for instance (which has a serious pricetag...)

There also might be better/cheaper/free alternatives around? Before people helped me here with Avisynth, which was a verry powerfull tool, and which helped me a lot with a previous problem.

[rgr]

No, Resolve alone won't do anything particularly good.

[Rockel83]

No, Resolve alone won't do anything particularly good.

Thanks for the answer. Like mentioned I did not yet had the time to dive into Resolve yet. But other edit software like Pinnacle Ultimate, which I had used a lot before, wasn't verry great on this field either.

You could play around a bit with settings and effects, but mostly at a cost, leaving the image quality still "mwah".

At Stacksocial they offer VideoProc AI for a decent discount for a lifetime licence, which would make it verry interesting to buy. But to be honest I don't have much trust in its reviews while people seem to think a lot of them are fake reviews.

So not sure if it will be a great addition next Resolve to "upscale/denoise" a bit, or that it's just a waste of money and it would be better to look for other alternatives...