Tutorials for Samurai Sharpen for Video

Samurai Sharpen is like all Digital Anarchy plugins: Powerful but simple to use. We know you’re busy and don’t have a ton of time to spend reading manuals. Plugins should make your life easier! That said, sometimes it helps to watch a 10 minute tutorial or check the manual for more info. You can also always email tech support at cs@digitalanarchy.com for more help.

Samurai Sharpen for Video manual

You can download the Samurai Sharpen PDF Manual it’ll give you an overview of sharpening, the plugin parameters, how to register, and tips on trouble shooting (you can also go to the FAQ for that).

Samurai Sharpen for Video – After Effects Intro Tutorial

This tutorial talks about how to use Samurai Sharpen in After Effects to enhance and sharpen details in your footage. It goes over the parameters and explains how to use them. LEVEL: BASIC

Samurai Sharpen for Video – Premiere Pro Intro Tutorial

This tutorial explains how to use Samurai Sharpen in Premiere Pro to enhance and sharpen details while editing videos. It goes over the plugin parameters and explains what they do. LEVEL: BASIC

Samurai Sharpen for Video – Final Cut Pro X Intro Tutorial

This tutorial talks about how to use Samurai Sharpen when editing video in FCP X to enhance and sharpen details on HD and 4K video footage. It goes over the sharpening filter’s parameters and explains how to use them. LEVEL: BASIC

Advanced Samurai: Using the Blend Group for Precise Sharpening of Video

This tutorial goes over how to use some of Samurai Sharpen's advanced controls: The Blend Group. This includes Blend Shadow Opacity and Blend Highlight Opacity and lets you control the strength of the sharpening halos together or individually for precise sharpening.

Advanced Samurai: Beauty Work- Sharp Eyes and Smooth Skin

In this tutorial we use Samurai Sharpen and Beauty Box together to both sharpen and smooth video footage. Often with beauty work you want to sharpen areas like eyes and hair but smooth out skin areas which can show too much detail with HD and 4K. Here we show you how to deal with both problems!

Perfect Day to Night Time Lapses: Sharp and No Flicker

Day to Night time lapses are difficult to capture. Flicker Free and Samurai Sharpen allow you to get beautiful, sharp time lapses with smooth transitions from bright sunlight to bright city lights. Learn how to get perfect time lapses in this tutorial!

Problems When Sharpening Video

This blog post goes over some of the problems you need to watch out for when sharpening video footage. Some of them Samurai is designed to help with and some are just endemic to sharpening.

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