Guides: what AI video restoration can really do

Straight answers about restoration, mosaic repair, subtitles and enhancement — including the parts where the honest answer is "it depends".

All guides

• Mosaic & pixelation restoration, explained — the three stages, what "close to the original" really means, and how to choose detection quality.
• Why moderate mosaic often comes back close to the original — what actually survives a mosaic, and how restoration uses that residual signal.
• Removing watermarks and burned-in subtitles — inpainting versus cropping, and how to pick.
• Generating subtitles from speech — the pipeline, and what hurts accuracy.
• Subtitle translation, from transcript to bilingual output — context grouping, terminology, and the pitfalls that ruin quality.
• Video enhancement, unpacked — upscaling, denoising, frame interpolation and colour, plus the order that works.
• How long does restoration take? — the six factors that decide the number, and how to estimate it.

Prefer Chinese? The full set is published on the Chinese guides hub.