Recovering h264 Smartphone Footage Shadows 2019

[kaylee]

well guys, i highly doubt that there is a magic bullet here, but i have a few shots where I can just barely see the background actors and i wanna pull up the shadows as much as possible to see whats there

i ~know~ that the macroblocking will be appalling, but don't worry, thats part of the aesthetic ? 

I'm using resolve but im open to ANY software/plugins that could do some magic im not aware of, Adobe, etc, whateverrrr i need to do

 

any ideas guys??

footage is in 4k fwiw

[HockeyFan12]

Neat Video (and some practice with Neat Video settings, it's got a lot of settings).

But it might also smooth out/get rid of macro blocking so then you need to export it again at a low bitrate.

[kaylee]

nice! i just know neatvideo as a noise reducer, does it also have some shadow recovery magic...?

will look into it...! ???

[HockeyFan12]

It might? I've used it to smooth out macro blocking before. Sometimes the "temporal smoothing" setting, when you set it to 5 frames, is able to reconstruct detail so you can push your footage further.

[kaylee]

12 hours ago, HockeyFan12 said:

It might? I've used it to smooth out macro blocking before. Sometimes the "temporal smoothing" setting, when you set it to 5 frames, is able to reconstruct detail so you can push your footage further.

nice!!! thank u buddy!!! ?????