Restore Old Video
Fix the combing, noise and shake in footage from tape and old cameras.
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How to use this tool
- Add your files — drag them onto the page or choose them. They stay on your device.
- Remove interlacing (the comb-shaped tearing on movement) with one toggle — old camcorder and TV recordings usually need it.
- Choose how hard to push grain reduction: light keeps detail, heavy softens the picture.
- Steady a shaky camera or sharpen afterwards under the same panel, then pick resolution, quality and container.
- Press “Restore” and download the results, individually or as one ZIP.
About this tool
Fix the combing, noise and shake in footage from tape and old cameras. Free and unlimited, and nothing is uploaded: it all runs in your own browser. Everything is analysed and produced on your own device — nothing is uploaded anywhere, and you can verify it: the tools keep working even offline.
Privacy & limitations
Files over roughly 2 GB, or long 4K videos, can exhaust the browser's memory — everything runs on your machine, so your machine is the limit. Stabilisation analyses motion across frames and is the slowest option here; heavy denoise softens genuinely detailed scenes — judge on the preview before committing to a full run.
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Frequently asked questions
What is that comb effect on movement?
Interlacing. Older video recorded half the lines at a time, thirty times a second, and a computer draws both halves at once. Deinterlacing recombines them into whole frames.
Should I use the noise reduction?
Only if the grain is genuinely distracting. It works by averaging across the picture, so it always costs some fine detail, and on clean footage it costs detail for no gain.
Can it fix a shaky camera?
It can steady moderate handheld shake. Violent movement cannot be recovered, because the frames themselves are motion-blurred.
Will restoring make old footage look modern?
No. It removes the artefacts of how the video was stored; it cannot add detail the tape never held. Expect a clean version of the original, not a better one.