Legacy catalogue restored to a standard viewers accept today
A rights-cleared archive that cannot be published because the picture quality embarrasses the platform is money that has already been spent but cannot be earned back. This POC runs legacy VOD assets through an AI pipeline that upscales resolution, raises framerate and removes noise and artefacts, so dormant catalogue becomes streamable inventory without re-licensing.

Broadcasters and rights holders are sitting on catalogues that were shot and mastered to a standard that no longer matches viewer expectations. Audiences have been conditioned by modern streaming to expect sharp, fluid playback; footage that was acceptable at SD or early HD reads as broken on today's screens. The result is a large portion of cleared, owned, cost-sunk content that cannot be placed on a platform without damaging the platform's quality perception.
Re-shooting is not an option. New licensing for replacement content costs more than the archive is worth. Traditional upscaling tools produce visible artefacts because they apply fixed filters rather than learned models. The gap between what the archive contains and what a modern platform can publish has, until recently, had no affordable solution.
This is relevant if you are:
A broadcaster with a historical archive of SD or early-HD content that is cleared for streaming but unpublished because picture quality no longer meets platform standards
A rights holder whose licensed catalogue includes older footage that licensees are declining to use or paying reduced fees for due to visual quality
The source asset is ingested and analysed: resolution, framerate, codec and noise profile are detected automatically to select the appropriate enhancement chain.
Deep Clean runs first - noise, compression artefacts and blur are removed from each frame before upscaling begins, so the upscaler works on clean signal rather than amplifying defects.
The upscaler uses a learned super-resolution model to increase resolution towards HD or 4K. Regular mode prioritises throughput; Ultra mode runs additional passes for maximum quality.
Motion Smoothing raises the effective framerate, interpolating intermediate frames to produce fluid playback at up to 60 FPS without the stutter associated with traditional frame-doubling.
Further operations run in the same chain where the material calls for them: slow motion up to 10x, edge sharpening, stabilisation for handheld footage, dust and scratch removal on film scans, de-interlacing of sources such as 480i, low-light denoise and audio denoise.
The enhanced asset is encoded and delivered in the configured output format (MP4, MOV or MKV, H.264 or H.265) at the target resolution, ready for ingest into the platform's existing delivery pipeline.
Standard upscaling tools apply fixed filters designed to produce acceptable output across a wide range of content. This pipeline uses learned models trained on broadcast-grade material, which means the enhancement decisions are content-aware rather than content-agnostic. Deep Clean runs before upscaling rather than after, so the resolution model works from clean signal. The pipeline is also modular: individual enhancement steps can be combined or omitted depending on the source material, rather than applying a single preset to everything.
AI Video Quality Enhancement is ready to pilot. The demo on this page runs against a set of prepared clip pairs and lets you drag the slider to compare original and enhanced output side by side.
Enhancement is not a real-time process: how long a job takes depends on source duration, the operations selected and the quality mode, and Ultra mode costs significantly more time than Regular, so the quality-versus-throughput trade-off has to be settled per project. Stabilisation applies a safe zoom when correcting severe shake, which trims the effective frame area slightly. Output is H.264 or H.265 in MP4, MOV or MKV; other containers and codecs are not supported yet. Resolution can be set to any target, but upscaling improves technical quality metrics rather than recovering detail the camera never captured.
The next step is a pilot against customer archive material: real footage, real enhancement settings, real delivery targets.
Bring us a sample of your toughest footage and tell us the target platform. We will run it through the pipeline and show you the output before any commitment.