Key takeaways:
- Super Resolution upscales video from as low as 540p to 4K
- AI-powered feature preserves quality and clarity
- Super Resolution included in Enhance pillar of AISuite
- Sharpen uses AI to add pixels and boost clarity
Video enthusiasts and video editors know the pain of upscaling content. It’s a pain to make lower-resolution videos look good on a larger screen. You can’t just stretch a 540p video to 4K without serious blurring and drops in quality.
That changes with Super Resolution, Socialive’s newest addition to the AISuite.
Unlock 4K quality from any video
Thanks to Super Resolution, you can upscale videos to 4K with the click of a button. The new AISuite feature preserves the original quality of your content by adding pixels and increasing your video's size. This allows you to record with a lower-resolution camera (like the 720p in most enterprise laptops) and display the video on a high-resolution monitor without losing any quality.
This means old videos captured in lower-end HD, recordings from lower-quality cameras, and even files compressed to lower bitrates for livestreams can be transformed into 4K with Super Resolution.
Think of Super Resolution as a way to digitally zoom in and “blow up” your video. AI adds pixels in the background to create a much larger image without distorting your content.
The benefits of Super Resolution
OK, so that’s the magic of Super Resolution, but the benefits go well beyond the output itself. There are quite a few benefits to both presenters and editors.
No more reshoots
A lower-resolution recording used to result in an instant reshoot. Working with a lower-res camera (like the company laptop) or a presenter who forgot to record at the camera’s highest resolution meant you’d have to try again later. It usually wasn’t until the editor got hold of the file, pulled it into Premiere, and saw the recording in a tiny letterbox at the center of their project preview window.
This doesn’t work — especially if your talent nailed the take.
Super Resolution upscales the file to 4K, whether it was recorded in Socialive or not, saving all the wasted time (and the producer from an awkward conversation).
Second life for older content
The fact that content doesn’t need to have been created in Socialive to apply Super Resolution means that you can bring older videos into 2026-ready quality.
Say you have a video that came from a 2020 livestream. It was probably recorded in either 540p or 720p — 4K is too large a format for livestreams. With Super Resolution, you can now generate a 4K file of that livestream.
This is especially helpful if there was a great piece of live content that you’d love to repurpose into other pieces of content.
Go big with large displays
Playing low-resolution videos on a big screen is always a no-no. Even if a video looks OK on a mobile device in landscape mode, it would look awful if you tried to use it on an auditorium display.
Socialive has your back in this scenario as well. Super Resolution allows you to upscale the video into a format that will look crisp, clean, and professional on the biggest stage.
Enhancing clarity automatically with Sharpen
So what if you wanted to keep your 1080p video the same size, but just wanted to make it look a bit clearer? That's where Sharpen steps in.
Sharpen uses AI to essentially fill in the gaps in the picture. The platform analyzes each image, each frame, and generates additional pixels that increase the quality of the video without changing the size.
Sharpen helps you showcase all the subtle details in videos. After running the video through Sharpen to clean it up and Super Resolution to maximize the size of your content, you can see smaller details, such as the small lettering on a book in the background. This level of detail removes distracting visual noise and unintentional soft blurring from your video and creates a sharp, high-quality video.
This used to be a cumbersome, tedious process that in many cases might not even be possible. If your speaker nailed the take, but the picture quality didn't live up to enterprise standards, it used to mean a lost take — wasted time and effort. Sharpen reduces blurry or grainy noise to generate crisp picture quality in videos.
It's just another way the AISuite lives up to its "no retakes" mantra.
What else is available in AISuite
Super Resolution is available now in Socialive’s AISuite. It launches alongside a pair of powerful Enhance features: Studio Voice and Eye Contact.
Studio Voice will give your presenters the sound of recording in a podcast studio — without the expensive equipment. Check out more details about Studio Voice here.
Eye Contact gives your presenters a more authentic look — and they don’t have to worry about the perfect take. Check out more details about Eye Contact here.
