How to Enhance Video

Movavi Video Suite features four automatic filters to correct most common imperfections by analyzing and calculating the best characteristics for your video.

Magic Enhance fixes color balance as well as brightness, contrast and color levels.
Auto Contrast enhances highlights and shadows, making the dark parts of the frames darker, and the light ones lighter.
Auto Saturation adjusts saturation of the entire image.
Auto White Balance calculates the best white balance and fixes white that appears gray or blue.

One of the commonest problems amateur movie makers encounter is purple video.

This problem occurs when you digitize video from old VHS tapes, or shoot video with inappropriate white balance settings. The picture below is typical of video with a bad white balance. Look at the face, t-shirt, trunk and sand - most of colors in the picture are shades of blue, not white. We have to correct colors - scientifically speaking, the chroma.

To correct this video, use the Auto White Balance filter to "warm up" the video and emphasize colors.

As you can see, after applying the filter, the color of the palm leaves is richer, the tree trunk is brown and the sand is white, while the face has acquired a healthy pink color. Much better!

Another frequent problem with home-made videos is a movie that is too dark.

As a rule, we get dark videos when we shoot indoors in poor light, at night, or against the sun. Underlit video lacks detail; the picture is almost completely black and only the brightest objects (lamps, windows, lights) show up.

But we can still fix these problems by applying the Auto Contrast filter. Changing the contrast brightens the whole video so that even small details can now be seen.

Look at the results: now we can see the interior of the room - even the napkins on the table and the people at the bar in the back.

AN IMPORTANT TIP: Every time you use the Auto Contrast filter (or the Brightness/Contrast filter), apply the Denoiser filter at the end. The Denoiser filter will greatly reduce the amount of visual "noise" that inevitably appears after brightening videos.