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So, a crazy person wants to download part of a 6 year old 720p youtube video, edit out a green-screen presenter, edit out a watermark, slow it down by 0.25x, upscale to 4K, clean up/sharpen/deshake and convert to SBS 3D format. Is there a software suite that can do all of this. Is there a better order do do all of this? Can it be done cheaply as it's going to be a one of project?

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EGuitarStar said:
A free, professional Video editor, but I don't believe it'll be able to convert to SBS 3D format.

DaVinci Resolve | Blackmagic Design

Professional video editing, color correction, visual effects and audio post production all in a single application. Free and paid versions for Mac, Windows and Linux.
www.blackmagicdesign.com
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Thank you, I'll take a look and see how I get on with it. Please stand by for more stoopid questions about it.
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Probably not that well :P

Da Vinci does a decent job upscaling good quality 1080p to 4k, but 720p youtube footage will still look awful.

Plus the upscaler is only available in the pair version.
 
Upscale first, you can just scale stuff and add sharpen filters to try and bring detail back (can do this in both After Effects and Premiere). Alternatively, you could try some AI software to upscale, like Topaz.

Slowing it down will require some sort of frame generation to fill in the new frames. Frame blending, and nearest neighbour are options in AE, or Optical Flow in PR. Topaz also offers this but not sure it will do 0.25x, but probably does.

Keying (removing the green), removing the watermark, and removing the camera shake are possible and fairly easy to do in AE.

Not sure about converting it to 3D. There are probably converters out there that can do that. It would have to figure out the depth of the scene and then use displacement maps to slightly offset parts of the video. That is then put on one side, and the original video on the other side (simplified workflow).
 
The latest release of Topaz is excellent at upscaling, clean up and speed changes with frame insertion, there's a lot of settings and AI models so you have to tweak it til you're happy but I've had some excellent results. You should do this process first and then do any editing work.

No idea if there's an automated tool for a 2D to 3D conversion, you can easily make a 2D side by side just by duplicating the video tracks and squishing each one by 50% to the left or right - but there'll be no depth, just a flat 2D in a 3D space.
 
Pooh said:
How are you getting on with "Mission Impossible"
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Very badly, I couldn't even get the snipping tool to work in davinci. I found a clip without a hooman and watermark, which made it a bit easier. Then a very basic job using stone age editing tools. Here's the source video, only the first 20 seconds used.


Where I'm at so far, and I've converted 30 seconds of the following to SBS 3D using owl 3D free trial.

 
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