You’re quite welcome. I, too, have tried my fair share of AI tools. Some are not free from the get-go (I can’t buy software). Some let you enhance the picture, even doing a pretty good job, but then won’t let you download it unless you buy their premium service. Some don’t do very well with underexposed pictures, but work well when the picture is correctly exposed. Then there are the rare one or two that work pretty well, but I’m still looking.
AI editing tools are evolving and getting better all the time, so there’s bound to be a really good one out there for free somewhere.
Unfortunately, I can’t. If they don’t work very well, or I hit a pay wall, or they won’t let me download what I’ve edited, I just uninstall them. I should probably take notes. There have been so many and a lot of the names are very similar, I just don’t recall which ones did that. Sorry I couldn’t be more help.
So you can see the edited image on your screen but cannot download it? What’s keeping you from setting your screen to a really high resolution and just taking a snapshot of your screen then?
Thank you, Iain. I’ve tried a lot of things - including the suggestions from your link, but none of them have worked for me yet. In the end, I either end up with paid versions or with complicated tools that have no user interface and where you have to work with prompts. Thanks anyway.
I haven’t used these but they might be worth a try.
You may want to try number five first. It got good comments in the YouTube video that’s listed on the site. The comments for this video also contain written instructions for how to use Clever Online Video Repair, as well as how to use VLC to fix corrupted files.
Online Converter MP4 Repair: This is a straightforward online tool that can repair MP4 files. You can choose to use a reference video from the same device or attempt the repair without one. Note that there’s a 200 MB file size limit.
Untrunc: An open-source utility that repairs broken MP4 or M4V files. It requires a working video file from the same device to use as a reference.
PhotoRec: Part of the TestDisk suite, PhotoRec is a free and open-source tool designed for data recovery. It can recover lost files, including videos, from various storage media.
WinX Video Converter: This tool can repair slightly corrupted MP4 files by analyzing and reconstructing damaged parts during the conversion process.
Many thanks to you too. However, your answer is partly in line with Iain’s. It is also almost identical to what Chatgpt replied to me. In the meantime, I don’t have the patience to try any more because all the attempts take too much time and you always end up with paid versions or unsatisfactory results.
My question to the community was more meant to ask if anyone can name a free and easy option from their own experience. But as I said, thanks anyway.
Good question. I don’t mind if things go off-topic for a bit, but as it is two very different pairs of shoes it would probably be better to have a separate topic for that. Don’t know if there’s already a good topic for that, maybe @letsdothis or you would like to create one? Would probably be more lively than this topic.
Thanks for the link. I had no trouble finding your newly created topic. I get notified of all new topics, and all topics with new posts, so the system notified me that you had created it.
In addition to the part of your post that I quoted, you also said that if there wasn’t one you would create one. That’s what I was referring to. I wasn’t aware of there being one prior to the one you created.
Shotcut, same as for video editing, basically treating it as a short video. Which is probably not optimal. I’d like to get smaller file sizes for GIFs, and I have not found a way to change the compression of the single frames of the GIF in Shotcut. Like reducing the color depth. I’ve been doing much more GIFs than videos lately, maybe I should find a dedicated software.
