Upscaling for Legal & eDiscovery
What upscaling does for legal & ediscovery 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
- Enhancement can't invent detail — anything that fabricates content is worthless as evidence.
- Privileged and case footage has to stay confidential and never feed someone's AI model.
- Retention windows matter: material often must be deleted once a matter closes.
Where upscaling helps
Exported surveillance and body-cam footage is often small and low-res, and the detail that matters is a few pixels wide. Upscaling enlarges it for examination. Because Real-ESRGAN is a super-resolution model, the enhanced version should supplement, not replace, the original in an evidentiary chain.
How BetterVideo does it
BetterVideo applies upscaling through one REST call — Real-ESRGAN x2 upscales to 1080p or 4K — and for legal & ediscovery, enhances real footage without inventing detail, never trains on it, and deletes it on your schedule with a certificate to prove it.
Common questions
Is upscaled video admissible as evidence?
That's for your process to decide — the upscaled version supplements the original, it doesn't replace it.
How much can you upscale?
Real-ESRGAN upscales toward 1080p or 4K, recovering size and detail from the real capture.
Upscaling for your footage
One REST call to enhance — deleted on your schedule, with a certificate to prove it.
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