AIVideoFreeAI Video Enhancer
Upscale a low-resolution clip, strip compression noise, sharpen what's actually there and steady a shaky shot. Old tapes and over-compressed exports both welcome — free preview every time.
Input
MP4 · MOV · WebM, 60 s / 500 MB
Upscale
2× or 4×
Also does
Denoise · sharpen · stabilise
Output
Up to 1080p on credits
Free tier
Watermarked preview, every job
Typical time
2–6 min per minute
Your uploads
Deleted within 24 hours
Our one-line verdict: recovery, not invention. It brings back detail the compression buried; it can't add detail the camera never captured — and the free preview shows you which of those you're dealing with.
Enhancement gets oversold, so here's the honest boundary first: a good enhancer recovers information that's present but degraded — buried under compression, softened by a small sensor, lost in a re-encode. It cannot invent detail that was never recorded. In practice that distinction decides everything. A 720p export that got crushed by three rounds of re-upload cleans up beautifully, because the detail is there under the artefacts. A genuinely soft, out-of-focus shot from a 2003 camcorder gets sharper edges and a cleaner image, but it will not become HD footage of a sharp scene. The preview is free on every job precisely because that gap is easier to see than to describe.
How to enhance a video in 3 steps
Upload the best copy you have
Go back to the original file rather than a re-export if you can — each re-encode removes detail this tool would otherwise recover.
Choose what to fix — and what to leave
Upscaling, denoising, sharpening and stabilising are separate choices. Doing all four at maximum is how footage ends up looking like plastic.
Preview free, then export
Check faces and fine texture at full size in the preview. If detail wasn't there to recover, you'll see it immediately — at no cost.
What people restore
Camcorder tapes
Digitised VHS and MiniDV: soft, noisy, interlaced. Denoise plus a careful 2× is usually the sweet spot, and keeping grain stops it looking like a video game.
Old uploads, re-published
A back catalogue that was compressed to death by a platform years ago. Cleaning it up for a re-upload or a compilation is one of the highest-value uses here.
Footage shot on a phone three years ago
Product and premises clips from an older phone, cleaned and upscaled to sit alongside newer material without the mismatch being obvious.
Where it works well — and where it struggles
The right column is half technical limits and half rules we've chosen. Knowing the failure modes before you upload saves more time than any guide.
Where it works well
• Compression damage.
Blocking in shadows, banding in skies, mush around moving edges — the artefacts of re-uploaded and over-compressed video are the cleanest win here.
• Sensible upscaling.
2× and 4× that respects what's in the frame rather than hallucinating texture onto it. Faces and text hold up better than with generic sharpening.
• Grain, kept on request.
Old footage has a character that aggressive denoising destroys. Ask to keep the grain and it stays — the difference between restored and plasticky.
• Free preview every job.
Whether your source has recoverable detail is visible in ten seconds of preview, which is faster and cheaper than any explanation.
Where it struggles
• Genuinely soft sources.
Out of focus, motion-blurred or shot through a dirty lens — there's no detail underneath to recover. Sharper edges, yes; a sharp image, no.
• Faces at small sizes.
A face that occupies forty pixels can come back subtly wrong rather than blurry, which is worse. Check faces at full size in the preview.
• Very long footage.
Sixty seconds a job. Restoring an hour of tape means segmenting, and it's slow work — realistic for an archive project, not for an afternoon.
• It isn't a colour grade.
Enhancement cleans and sharpens; it doesn't make creative decisions about look. Grade afterwards in your editor.
Enhance, clean up, or regenerate?
Questions, answered straight
Upload the best copy of the clip you have, choose which problems to fix — upscaling, noise, sharpness, stability — and preview it free. The most common mistake is enabling everything at maximum, which produces a smooth plastic look. Start with denoise plus a 2× upscale.
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