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Upscaling for Insurance & Claims

What upscaling does for insurance & claims footage, when it helps, and how BetterVideo's API applies it to the real capture.

🔒 Footage deleted on your schedule — with a certificate to prove it

What insurance & claims work actually needs
  • Adjusters need to read damage detail — cracks, water lines, VINs — that poor footage hides.
  • Claimant footage is personal data; keeping it around indefinitely is a liability.
  • Volume is high and per-claim — you need it programmatic, not a desktop app.

Where upscaling helps

Claim clips are shot at low phone resolution and cropped tight. Upscaling to 1080p or 4K makes decisive small detail — a serial number, a crack in a windshield — larger and easier for an adjuster to read. BetterVideo upscales the real capture with Real-ESRGAN; for evidence use, the upscaled version supplements rather than replaces the original.

How BetterVideo does it

BetterVideo applies upscaling through one REST call — Real-ESRGAN x2 upscales to 1080p or 4K — and for insurance & claims, brightens and sharpens dark, shaky claim clips so an adjuster can read the damage — per second, per claim — then deletes them on your schedule.

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Common questions

Can upscaling make small detail in a claim readable?

Often, yes — upscaling enlarges the real capture so an adjuster can read detail that was too small before.

Does upscaling change the evidence?

It enlarges the real footage; treat the upscaled version as a supplement to, not a replacement for, the original.

Upscaling for your footage

One REST call to enhance — deleted on your schedule, with a certificate to prove it.

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