VLC player: Enhance picture - the best tricks
You can easily improve the picture quality of a video yourself when playing it with the VLC player. The VLC player comes with extensive picture effects so that you can quickly optimize the video quality. Here we show you the individual steps.
Improve image on VLC player
- First start the video playback as usual with the VLC player.
- Then pause playback and click the "Tools" menu.
- Next, select the first menu item "Effects and Filters". Tip: Alternatively, you can press [Ctrl] + [E] on the keyboard.
- Now a new window opens. Click here on the "Video Effects" tab.
- You will now see various setting options. In the next paragraph we explain which tricks you can use to quickly adjust the picture.
Video effects: How to optimize the picture with the VLC player
- "Accuracy" section: The "Sharpen" option allows you to sharply sharpen soft object outlines. If you activate and deactivate the checkbox alternately, you can see and adjust the sharpness level directly in the picture.
- "Accuracy" section: You can use the classic image editing options via "Image adjustment". Brightness, contrast and color tone can be used like with Gimp, Photoshop and Co.
- "Crop" section: There are occasionally unsightly edges, especially for videos you have made yourself or downloaded from YouTube. You can remove them in the "Crop" tab, the rest of the video is scaled up to full size.
- "Colors" section: The sepia option is worthwhile for video artists. So you can test whether the clip gets more expression in sepia.
- "Geometry" section: If the camera was crooked when taking the picture, you can rotate the image to the exact degree here during playback.
- "Advanced" section: Blurring such as motion blur, spatial blurring or noise and flickering can be reduced somewhat here. However, the VLC player can only make small adjustments. For better and sustainable video editing, we recommend video editing software like Sony Vegas.
On the next page we show how you can also cut videos with the VLC player.