Tools / Video & audio
Restore an old video
An old clip from a pocket camera, a 2008 phone or a converted tape: shaky, noisy, washed-out and flickering. Here the shake is stabilised, the noise removed, the flicker gone, the colours balanced, and the frame doubled if it was small — with the sound kept as it is. Everything on your device, no upload, no cap.
Your file never leaves your device — everything runs in your browser
How to use it
- Upload the video (MP4/MOV/WebM, up to 5 minutes).
- Pick the treatments: stabilise, denoise, deflicker, colour, upscale — and run.
- Compare before/after and download the MP4.
Questions
How does it stabilise without uploading?
It measures the frame motion between every two frames (block matching on a small copy), draws the camera path, smooths it, then shifts each frame by the difference with a small zoom (6%) so the edges don't show. Not at the level of editing suites with 3D tracking, but it removes the jitter that makes a clip tiring.
Noise and flicker?
Noise is removed with temporal blending: each frame is mixed with the previous one after alignment, but only in regions that didn't move (so motion isn't smeared). Flicker (brightness changing from frame to frame) is equalised by smoothing the mean brightness across frames.
How long does it take?
Frame by frame on your device: roughly the clip's length to twice that on a recent phone at 720p. Trim clips longer than 5 minutes first with the video trim tool.
The sound?
Copied as it is when it's AAC, MP3 or Opus (most videos). If it's an old unsupported format the video comes out silent, and we tell you.
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