Anyone have experience with this? Am I correct in assuming you can never increase the quality of a digital video or audio file?
I thought it was strange when I converted a .fla file for easier use as a WMV or some other and the file size increased from 200 megs to 3 gigs...
Went and looked at the settings and the video size when from 320x whatever to 720 and bit rate from 150 to 5000 and a few other things. What I don't understand is why the default rate would be like that unless you were recording from an analog signal to a digital one? In this case I was converting from one file format to the other not recording a raw analog signal.
The quality remained the same after all that and it took an hour longer to encode
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He said it is possible if you have insanely expensive software or work for the government there is a good chance you can get a slight increase in the quality of the video. Audio of course you can make improvements on with cheaper software. Is the video something that is important? You can spend lots of time and take each frame at a time to improve it in a photo editing program like Photoshop.
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He said it is possible if you have insanely expensive software or work for the government there is a good chance you can get a slight increase in the quality of the video. Audio of course you can make improvements on with cheaper software. Is the video something that is important? You can spend lots of time and take each frame at a time to improve it in a photo editing program like Photoshop.
The video is over 200 megs. there is no way I am going frame by frame to edit it. The quality is fine at the resolution it is at now. But increase the screen size and it pixelates
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He said it is possible if you have insanely expensive software or work for the government there is a good chance you can get a slight increase in the quality of the video. Audio of course you can make improvements on with cheaper software. Is the video something that is important? You can spend lots of time and take each frame at a time to improve it in a photo editing program like Photoshop.
That's my understanding too.
Technically the quality can be improved under some circumstances, but the equipment needed is very expensive.
Law enforcement if often able to enhance the quality of an audio recording by reducing the background noise on the audio. I think they break the audio down with a spectrum analyzer, and based upon the frequencies in the spectrum they're looking at, they can filter out what they don't want, and end up with an improved audio recording. But of course, your average home-based audio enthusiast probably wont have access to that kind of technology.
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Increasing the "quality" of a file is pretty much impossible. You can increase it's size and may be able to make technical improvements but you can never really improve "quality" substantially from the original file. Making it a larger size would not in itself make the quality better as it would be like taking a 99 cent cassette tape and a two dollar microphone and recording a song then transferring that recorded audio to a 24 track recording studio digital recorder. You might be able to digitally take out a little hiss, etc but you would not improve much on your original horrible recording.
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Right and actually law inforcement and or any national security agency, as far as I know, don't really improve the quality, but they enhance an image in certain ways so say license plate numbers are more discernable. This may be done by removing antialiasing or increasing sharpness. That does not make the image a better quality necessarily. It's more like taking naturally rounded edges and turning them into jagged ones to be easier on the eye to pick out numerical details
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