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Can I brighten/enhance night video footage?

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I have footage from an arecont 3130m IP camera. No IR.

there is very low light & I need to brighten / enhance the video.

 

Is there enhancement video editing software that will enhance an avi or even raw data(from luxriot system)?

 

Or if I select various frames(images) & use aprogram to enhance?

 

Have tried basic brighten & gamma? should I look at adobe photoshop for the images?

 

cheers

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Are there any filters that I can download to enhance? what would be my best approach in enhancing this video with virtual dub?

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It comes with a standard filter set, but more can found over the web. To give you an exact tutorial on which filters to use is hard, because it is depends on your video.

 

I would start working with the 'levels' filter then moving on to 'brightness/contrast'. We also use addon filter like 'Noise Reducer' and 'Luminance Correction'.

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get the correct lighting first IR or visible ?

 

One $200 wide angle IR illuminator or some spots ?

 

fixing bad video is silly

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One $200 wide angle IR illuminator or some spots ?

 

fixing bad video is silly

 

I agree your going to spend money after the fact to get a picture you should of had in the biginning. I don't think any video software will get you the brightness you want, Also if you edit that video it becaome inadmissible in courtroom....

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I use JASC paintshop pro and have had no issues with evidence usually they are very thankful.

 

However I always submit an unmodified original watermarked version for whatever they need. Going beyond on your copy doesn't effect the original.

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