Compatible with Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Avid and OpenFX applications, like Davinci Resolve
Video footage is often a little soft and enhancing it to sharpen certain details can make a world of difference. Samurai Sharpen allows you to do this quickly with tools designed to let you easily isolate specific areas of the footage and only sharpen those areas. It’s state-of-the-art sharpening for video footage that’s precise and simple.
Samurai Sharpen for Video enhances video clarity by selectively sharpening specific areas using edge-aware algorithms and masking tools. This targets details like eyes and hair in close-ups or textures in landscapes, avoiding unwanted sharpening on skin or noisy regions. This precise approach improves the visual impact of diverse video content.
Enhance facial features in closeups without over-sharpening skin. Samurai adds detail to softer environmental footage, whether HD or 4K. For noisy video, it allows masking dark areas to sharpen only desired details. This control is crucial for dynamic subjects like wildlife, improving their visual appeal.
Samurai Sharpen helps integrate different resolutions by sharpening HD footage to resemble 4K quality, ensuring smoother transitions in productions. While not a perfect conversion, it enhances HD details, minimizing visual differences.
We use your video card’s GPU to drastically speed up rendering, getting real time performance with some video cards. This lets Samurai Sharpen fit into your video production workflow just as easily as it is to use.
The first thing any good sharpening plugin should do is identify the significant features in your footage and just enhance those edges. This allows you to sharpen areas like eyes, which have well defined edges, and not sharpen areas like skin, which are flatter areas of color without many hard edges. You don’t want to turn your actor’s skin into sandpaper!
The masks in Samurai Sharpen allow you to protect the Shadows and Highlights from being sharpened. Camera noise is one of the banes of sharpening and the dark areas of video footage have a ton of it. Luckily the masks in Samurai make it a simple task to prevent those areas from being sharpened and not turn your video into a noisy mess. Sharpening where you want it, simply and easily.
Sharpening works by increasing the contrast along the edges in footage. This creates a light and dark side to the edge (called halos). Samurai Sharpen has Blend controls to adjust the intensity of either the light or dark halo independently. This gives you precise and unprecedented control over the look of the enhancements you make to your video footage.
“No matter how you frame and focus a shot, there may end up being some softness in the resulting video (...). Samurai Sharpen is an excellent tool to sharpen the footage. It's great that editors can sharpen specific elements of the footage, while leaving other areas unchanged."
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(Samurai) is perfect for applications such as keeping skin tone soft while getting more definition out of lips, eyes, and hair. It also comes with built-in masks to restrict to specific areas of frame. These masks also restrict tone ranges, keeping the sharpening primarily in the mid tones."
"One of the better sharpening filters on the market is Digital Anarchy’s Samurai Sharpen. What makes Samurai Sharpen different is that it includes sophisticated masking in order to restrict the part of the image to be sharpened."
Need some hands on time with Beauty Box Video before purchasing? No problem.
Simply download the demo. After installation, Beauty Box Video will run in a fully functional watermarked trial- perfect for auditioning all the effects.
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