Stuka

Capturing videos is now possible with most mobile phones, and even at high quality. However, clear visuals don’t mean perfect clips, and you might just need to make simple adjustments to get the right picture. For simple color adjustments, you can easily rely on applications like Stuka.

First of all, you need to go through a setup process to ensure the proper functionality of the application. It offers to launch it right afterwards so you can take a look over the set of features without restarting your system. The main window is where the log of events is displayed, as well as the remaining time.

Accessing the adjustments window is where everything is performed. Here you not only get to load the video of interest, but also to make necessary tweaks. Loading the clip of interest is not possible through a drag and drop operation, so you need to rely on the browse dialog. Sadly, only one video can be processed at a time, and you can only work with those under the MOV format, which is rather disappointing.

Once you manage to select a video, a sample preview is delivered in a dedicated section. However, it only shows a static frame, and there’s no progress slider to analyze the entire video based on your changes, and this can have quite unexpected consequences, since you mostly adjust options in the blind.

The set of controls isn’t really abundant in options. Split in a couple of sections, the application allows you to take control of sliders which stand for RGB values, as well as brightness, contrast, and saturation. You can use a noise reduction slider for this effect, as well as applying vertical flip. The output video is delivered in the same directory under the same format.

Stuka wants to help you easily tweak color and aspect of your videos, and it puts a straightforward set of controls at your disposal. Unfortunately, it only supports the MOV format for input, which considerably restricts your liberty of editing.