STOIK Video Enhancer

Poor lighting, incorrect camera settings and shaking hands are just a few factors which can make a home-made video look terrible. Although repairing a video is not as easy as repairing a photo, you can still look for a specialized application to make this operation straightforward. A good example is STOIK Video Enhancer. It can make various adjustments to a video, like fixing the exposure and color balance, reducing motion blur, cleaning grainy videos and more. What's more, the software's controls are well organized and easy to understand, which makes it quite easy to enhance one or more videos.

STOIK Video Enhancer is free to try for a limited period of time. It can be installed quickly, without any effort, on Windows XP, Vista, Win 7 or Win 8. The software requires a dual-core CPU or better and at least 2 GB of RAM, which should not be too much for any modern day computer.

The software does not burden you with overloaded menus and complicated options. Instead, it provides a tabbed user interface, on which you can import videos, choose one or more enhancements and export the videos. You can browse through your local folders on the software's interface, just like on a standard explorer window. Once you find the videos you want to enhance, you only need to click and drag the files from one area to another.

While previewing a video, on the editing tab, you can select a series of options, on the left side of the interface, to apply various enhancements. The software allows you to apply noise reduction, stabilization, deblurring and other effects and select different strength levels. You can see how the effects impact your videos in the same preview. Furthermore, the software allows you to enable a "before and after" view, so you may compare the edited and original videos side by side.

The selected effects can be applied on several videos in a single run, if you click their corresponding check boxes. Finally, the videos can be exported, in various formats and at different resolutions. You can also choose between different upscale algorithms and styles.