Brutal dark video needs brightening and de-noising... Any Ideas?

[lordsmurf]

You're going to spend countless hours to fix something, but all you'll accomplish is to make it marginally better.

I would not bother with this sort of project. It's wasteful.

There's really next to nothing you can do when overexposure and underexposure is the problem.

[danzeb]

You're going to spend countless hours to fix something, but all you'll accomplish is to make it marginally better.

I would not bother with this sort of project. It's wasteful.

There's really next to nothing you can do when overexposure and underexposure is the problem.

Large changes may not be possible but you can apply a small amount of brightness and then some smoothing to reduce the grain. I've done it on videos and it is does make enough of an improvement to make it worthwhile. You can brighten an image enough to at least bring the subject out of the shadows enough to at least make them recognizable. Of course it will not match a properly lit video.

It shouldn't take long to do. The trick is to only make small changes because that's all that is possible with a poorly exposed video.

[lordsmurf]

It would be easier to reduce the sharpness value on the tv set, and up the brightness a bit on the tv set.

Do that when viewing this video.

Sometimes just adjusting the tv temporarily will work as good as, if not better, than spending forever restoring a video.