poor quality and zooming

[Jerrrry]

Quick question for everyone: does anyone know of a plugin that zooms in on movies a bit? I have some movies where there are black bars at the top, bottom, left, and right (haha). Is there any way to change that? Or bypass it? Also, some movies have really bad quality; is there an upscaling tool for that? Thanks     

[Galin McMahon]

The quality issue may be a result of slow upload speed. I have great internet and internet speed but I didn't realize my eero's ethernet capped at only 100Mb/s so I'm upgrading that to 2.5gig tonight. It could also be an under-powered NAS but that's unclear here.

I don't know about automated zooming so hopefully someone may have an answer for that. I get this a lot, especially with OBS captures. When this happens, I'll process through Resolve (the free version suffices unless you need 4k.) Just add a little zoom, position the Y axis so the image is right in the middle, and adjust the volume in the mixer so it peaks around -10db. Sometimes I'll add AI resolution boost (paid version only) although, frankly, that doesn't do a whole lot. A lot of times DVD rips will be too low quality so I'll add some noise reduction as well (free version I think.) If you're only reframing (zooming) then the export is very fast. AI and NR slows it down a lot.

[Galin McMahon]

I do regularly see JF zooming way out of some movies. I can not determine why it does this.