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Ensure every video is high resolution

Fine-tune your settings for crisp and clear exports

Maximize your content’s potential by enhancing low-quality recordings

Few people realize just how crucial video quality is, especially on social media. As the most impactful type of brand content, every clip you share should be crisp, clear, and polished. A single blurry upload can discourage viewers from engaging with your brand and even create a lasting impression that drives potential customers away for good.


Kapwing’s online Video Clearer gives creators full control over video quality, providing tools to unblur content, sharpen details, and adjust opacity, brightness, contrast, saturation, and blur. With easy-to-use adjustment sliders, the tool is perfect for all skill levels and is completely free to use — no downloads or app installations required.

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Save time with four resolution options in one editor

Social media platforms have varying resolution limits, making it difficult to maintain consistent video quality across multiple projects. With Kapwing’s Video Clearer, you can quickly adjust resolution settings using intuitive sliders, allowing every piece of content to be optimized without the hassle of manual resizing.


Enjoy full export control, including 4K and 1080p resolutions, and use the file size slider to strike the perfect balance between high-quality visuals and manageable file sizes. Whether you're a marketing team, business owner, or content creator, optimizing video quality for clarity and shareability has never been easier.

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Build brand consistency with polished, professional videos

The foundation to building a reputable brand is consistency. Influencers, global translation teams, and creators across varied industries all benefit from ensuring every visual is clear, professional, and instantly recognizable. Develop a clear video strategy then add crystal clear content.

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Improve audience experience and engagement

The average attention span for short-form videos is just 8 seconds, and it’s even shorter if your video lacks high-quality resolution. Quickly fix resolution issues and enhance content from 480p to 4K to ensure viewers stay engaged from the start. A clear, professional video increases the chances of audiences watching through ad breaks, responding to call-to-actions, and boosting engagement-based algorithms for greater reach.

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Small tweaks, big improvements

Take control of opacity, brightness, contrast, saturation, and blur

Blur

For a content creator, blurred video can be both a problem and solution depending on the project. Intentionally adding a blur helps highlight key elements, reduce distractions, create depth-of-field effects, and add a cinematic touch. On the other hand, removing blur restores sharpness, corrects recording mishaps, and ensures every video has a clear finish.

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An image of a road sign that has been partially blurred using Kapwing's blurring tool

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Create clear, HD videos that keep viewers engaged

Hook audiences inside 8 seconds on every platform

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Vlogs & Tutorials

Creators unblur YouTube vlogs and tutorial videos, sharpening quality directly in their browser. By adjusting brightness and contrast to make key elements stand out, videos look crystal clear in any resolution, from HD to 4K.

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Social Media Content

Every second counts when crafting content for Instagram and TikTok. Kapwing's Video Clearer improves watch times by removing blur and refining clips to make eye-popping visuals on mobile

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Brand Partnerships

Influencers and advertising teams showcase brand partnerships and attract new commercial opportunities by using a Video Clearer to maintain the highest visual quality and resolution standards

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LinkedIn Videos

Businesses, HR, and recruitment professionals use the free Video Clearer to remove unwanted blur and enhance presentations or industry insight videos on LinkedIn's new short-form video tab

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Marketing & Advertising

Content marketers fine-tune product teasers and brand story videos, exporting in 1080p or 4K to ensure viewers have a smooth, distraction-free experience

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Twitch Clips

Kapwing’s Video Clearer enhances Twitch stream footage by sharpening visuals and removing blur from gameplay recordings, ensuring both face cam and in-game action remain crisp and clear

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Customer Testimonials

Small business owners refine and enhance videos to ensure testimonial footage looks polished and professional, allowing the customer’s message to stand out clearly — even when recorded in challenging conditions

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Training Videos

Video teams produce effective training materials by enhancing image and video clarity, ensuring instructions are clear, professional, and easy to understand for employees and customers

How to Make a Video Clearer

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  1. Upload video

    Upload your video file to Kapwing or add a URL link. Kapwing supports MP4, MOV, AVI, and more.

  2. Enhance video

    With your video layer selected, use the right-hand sliders to make your video clearer by adjusting opacity, brightness, contrast, saturation, and blur. We also recommend stabilizing your video with the one-click feature in the same sidebar.

  3. Export and download

    Continue making edits then click "Export project" to finalize your video. Once exported, download and share.

What's different about Kapwing?

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Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.
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Free
Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.
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Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.
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Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.
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Kapwing is probably the most important tool for me and my team. It’s always there to meet our everyday needs in creating scroll-stopping and engaging videos for us and our clients. Kapwing is smart, fast, easy to use and full of features that are exactly what we need to make our workflow faster and more effective. We love it more each day and it keeps getting better.
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Frequently Asked Questions

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Is Kapwing's Video Clearer tool free?

Yes, the Video Clearer tool is free for all users to try. A Free Account allows you to easily adjust brightness, contrast, opacity, saturation, and blur levels. When you upgrade to a Pro Account, you get access to exporting in 1080p and 4k video quality, plus all the premium AI features like the Video Stabilizer and B-Roll Generator.

Is there a Kapwing watermark on exports?

If you are using Kapwing on a Free account then all exports — including from the Video Clearer — will contain a watermark. Once you upgrade to a Pro account the watermark will be completely removed from all the videos you sharpen and edit.

How do I fix blurry or pixelated videos?

To improve the clarity of a blurry video, upload the file into Kapwing or paste the URL into our online editor. Then, adjust the settings for opacity, brightness, contrast, saturation, and blurring to improve the quality of the footage. Lastly, make sure to export the video as 1080p or 4K. When adjusting the compression level, opt for higher quality so you don’t affect the resolution during the export process.

How to unblur a video on Android sent from iPhone

Videos sent through cellular networks are typically heavily compressed, leading to a loss of quality. Sometimes, file types sent between Android and iPhones are handled differently on each device, too, which leads to blurring. One way to preserve quality during Android-to-iPhone transfers is to use third-party messaging apps or file-sharing apps. You can also upload your video to Kapwing's Video Clearer prior to sending to unblur, enhance, and export in 4K. Or, you can sharpen the video's quality after receiving it using the tool's brightness, contrast, opacity, saturation, and blur level sliders.

Is there a better resolution than 1920x1080?

Yes, there are better resolutions than 1920x1080, also commonly called 1080p or Full HD. 3840x2160, or 4K, is the highest resolution possible on most PC screens, and contains four times as many pixels as 1080p. Some Mac models currently support even higher resolution, like 8K. Kapwing's online video clearer allows you to export your video files in both 1080p and 4K, as well as adjust the file level to avoid over-compressing.

Why do 1080p videos look blurry sometimes?

There are a handful of reasons why 1080p videos can sometimes look blurry. For example, the original footage quality could be very low-resolution, which forces its pixels to be stretched to fit high-resolution displays. Also, platforms like YouTube use a compression algorithm during uploads to make streaming faster, which can have the side effect of blurring video somewhat. Finally, the monitor's native resolution you're using might not match1080p.

Why is visual quality so important for social media videos?

There are three key reasons why a video's visual quality is critical when posting to social media:

  1. First Impressions Matter: Viewers are quickly scrolling through feeds, so high-quality video is much more likely to grab attention. Sharp, clear video with high resolution makes a good first impression, and gets viewers to watch for longer and engage.
  2. Brand Credibility: Consistent visual quality improves brand credibility. High-quality, polished videos look professional, showing that you care about your content and audience, which helps foster trust and loyalty.
  3. Improved Engagement: High-resolution, crystal clear videos are far likelier to be shared and engaged with. Platforms typically favor content that generates positive reactions, such as likes, shares, and comments, which only increase your videos' reach.

How do I make a blurry video clear?

To make a blurry video clearer, upload the file into Kapwing’s online editor or paste the video URL. Then, go to the "Edit" panel on the right-hand side and scroll down to the "Adjust" section. Next, slide the markers to adjust the settings for opacity, brightness, contrast, saturation, and blur level.

Can AI make a video clearer?

Yes, AI can make video content clearer. Kapwing offers an AI stabilization tool that automatically stabilizes your video so it’s less shaky — which has a big impact on clarity. You can also use our easily adjustable settings for brightness, contrast, and saturation to improve the clarity of your videos. Then, choose a higher resolution like 1080p or 4K when exporting to preserve quality.

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Edit your videos with our fast, powerful video editor. Accessible for beginners, feature-rich for pros. Available on any device.
Magic subtitles
Add word-by-word captions to any video with Kapwing's subtitle generator. Change colors, fonts, and add animations or transitions.
Generative AI
Text to video is here. Create videos with a simple text prompt that include stock clips, music, subtitles, and transitions.
Collaborative editing
Organize footage and files with a shared workspace. Quickly review and share feedback with your team using real-time comments.
Edit video with text
Edit a video just by editing text. Trim videos or clip sections by removing text from the video's auto-generated transcript.
Automatic resize
Crop, flip, or resize videos to fit any platform. Built-in social media Safe Zones ensure your content always fits correctly.
Instant transcripts
Transcribe video to text with a single click. Repurpose audio or video content into articles and text posts, or convert to subtitles.
Translation & dubbing
Reach a global audience and translate videos in 70+ languages. Accurate translation for video subtitles and voice overs.
Enhance audio quality
Clean audio in seconds, remove background noise from videos, add music and effects, and split or merge audio with our built-in audio editor.
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