How to Filter after capture?

[Hemroid]

Hi, Ive captured and uploaded over 100 skateboard videos using the following basic ingredients:

Panasonic NV-HS950
WinTV-HVR950
Virtual Dub
Windows 10

The pre recorded skateboard videos are alot better than my previous economy setup but are still abit grainy.

They are capturing to avi at about 40gb each and then im compressing them on handbrake down to about 5gb H.264 (x264) 30 FPS. This setting has the best result after experimenting with loads. The compressed quality looks identical to the captured quality.

Whats annoying is there is a another guy putting these same videos up and his are alot smoother than mine haha

My question is can i now run them through a filter to sharpen them up? I have a really small knowledge of this so please be gentle.

Thanks guys

[traal]

Is the grain in yours distracting? If not, I wouldn't do anything about it, because if you degrain too much, it makes the people look plasticky.

Post screenshots or a short video segment so we can see what you're talking about.

[Hemroid]

Heres a link to one of the videos ive uploaded: https://youtu.be/iuEPHeTKSfg

[Hemroid]

As you can see its not very sharp at all and grainy aswell. Thanks

[BarryTheCrab]

I will only note that linking to a Youtube video is frowned upon for any diagnostics because it has been re-processed.
An actual attached sample clip would serve all better.

[TheVistaGroup]

When you mean "smooth," do you mean that a single frame is smooth, visually? Like, smoother lines, smoother gradients? And/or, do you mean the video motion is smooth? Like watching it on an old TV smooth.

[Hemroid]

The picture in general is not sharp and is grainy, like its hard to see clear face expressions for example. The motion seems ok.

Heres a small clip:

[traal]

That grain is pretty bad, even during daylight scenes. Are you checking your histogram before capture? If not, and then if you're aggressively adjusting levels after capture to compensate, it could bring out the grain like that.

[Hemroid]

Hi, Im not sure what histogram actually is really, when i hit it not much happens apart from a blank bar appearing below the priview window?
To be honest im not adjusting any levels pre or post capture, im just hitting capture video, might be my downfall i fear