Today, I made some test recordings with my Pocket 2 for a poetry night I am going to film tomorrow. The circumstances required me to max the Pocket 2 zoom in at 4X in 1080p. After filming, I looked at the footage and did find it to be slighty crummy-looking with some small but noticeable (on a 32-inch FullHD TV and on a 22-inch computer display) pixelization and artefacts. Yet I am not sure if I have a chance to bring the camera closer to the performers to make the image quality better by reducing the amount of zoom needed for an appropriate image composition.

I have heard that it is possible to do some image sharpening in the post-processing, and was wondering how much that could possibly enhance the image quality. Or will it only make the image more artificial-looking?

This was on a reasonably well-lit interior, exposure value at 0.0, ISO value at MaxISO 800 setting, filming at 1080p25 and shutter speed being 1/50 (to eliminate the flickering in the footage caused by the fluorescent lighting).

Also, if anybody knows a handy tutorial for this in Davinci Resolve, would be glad to hear about it.

Any comments and feedback welcome!

This video may help you

DAFlys Posted at 4-17 22:34
This video may help you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SMzKnTQ9Kg

Thanks for that, looks like a very comprehensive and illustrative tutorial. Will try this if it turns out I need it. I did manage to get the camera closer and therefore managed to set it so I needed less digital zoom, so will have to see if the pixelization and artefact problem eased up. But needed it now or not, this is great to know for future needs.

HGDC84 Posted at 4-18 10:12
Thanks for that, looks like a very comprehensive and illustrative tutorial. Will try this if it turns out I need it. I did manage to get the camera closer and therefore managed to set it so I needed less digital zoom, so will have to see if the pixelization and artefact problem eased up. But needed it now or not, this is great to know for future needs.

Great

Did you hear any good poems?

DAFlys Posted at 4-18 23:44
Great

Did you hear any good poems?

Yes, I think the performers are quite talented (probably not including me, as I was one of the writers and readers as well )

There were poems about animals, times of the year, friendship and many similar topics. Quite philosophical ones at that.

HGDC84 Posted at 4-19 11:16
Yes, I think the performers are quite talented (probably not including me, as I was one of the writers and readers as well  )

There were poems about animals, times of the year, friendship and many similar topics. Quite philosophical ones at that.

I assume they were all in Finish?

DAFlys Posted at 4-19 22:48
I assume they were all in Finish?

Yes they were. I do believe that nothing would prevent the participants from writing in other languages though. I could ask about it from the course teacher the next time I'm in contact with her.

HGDC84 Posted at 4-20 07:57
Yes they were. I do believe that nothing would prevent the participants from writing in other languages though. I could ask about it from the course teacher the next time I'm in contact with her.

No need, I was just curious,   as some things dont always work in other languages like stand up comedy.  

DAFlys Posted at 4-20 21:54
No need, I was just curious,   as some things dont always work in other languages like stand up comedy.

I thought about asking the question for my own curiosity, so that's not any hassle for me. And you are right, for instance some wordplay is very hard if not downright impossible to translate to other languages.

I'm not sure if sharpening will help when there is already artifacts in the footage.

Montfrooij Posted at 4-28 00:17
I'm not sure if sharpening will help when there is already artifacts in the footage.

Thanks for the tip I'll have to bear that in my mind for further filming.

HGDC84 Posted at 4-28 09:06
Thanks for the tip  I'll have to bear that in my mind for further filming.

No problem at all!