Hey, I found a kind of workaround for 16 and 32bits. Instead of "find edges", CC Kernel (for adobe cc) can be used or alternativelly threshold or cartoon, yielding each different results. With the kernel 1,2,1 / 0,0,0 / -1,-2,-1 . I tried Luma matte instead of inverted.

@maxr Wow, looks like I'm about to start playing around with some footage now! :) I can't say I've used cc kernal yet, but it looks like it might yield a little more control.

@maxr Yea I just used the cartoon effect and I found it more subtle!

Quick and dirty video test using method described above (Kernel mask / difference), moon wasn't really good example and I was too tired. In this, lighter sharp layer was about 33% and darker about 55%.

Personaly, as I would like to add my own grain recipe to final grade, being able to sharp footage not introducing further grain/noise would be very nice.

Issues to overcome are substituting gaussian blur for something that repeats or feathers pixels on the edge of frame AND simplifying most possible in order for the whole process to be less processor intensive and quicker.

Please, have in mind this footage is not from GH2, but from a 1/2.3'' sensor P&S camera 8-)

@Gardner dunno if more subtle, easy to tame 4 sure... the threshold one is too harsh. Would be nice if someone who actually knows about kernel could refine the filter, fiiu fiuui fuuu {whistling}

@BurnetRhoades For photography, back then when I was using PS intensively I even developed many heterodox recipes and actions for sharpening, now I don't even remember where I left my girlfriend :P.
High pass is a nice one as one can play around with blend modes (soft light is very popular) while filtering results with a mask. Also can be mixed with high frequency and alpha channel methods. That's what Jeremiah (@Gardner) is doing.

I downloaded your file, will be playing with it... When I feel more solid about this K_method - have to closely pay attention to this "tendency to give false-edge artifacts at fairly low levels when the feature you're sharpening is brighter than the surrounding pixels" you mentioned - I'll post a file too. Thanks for input bro =)

@maxr one of the other things I've done in that preset is append a Curves effect to the tail end with a bump in the highlight area, pinning mids and lows, which has the effect of accentuating the highlights and making them "pop" more, an additional effect to sharpening since this method has the net effect of a very controlled S-curve accentuating values near black and white and leaving mids alone.

I'll also double up this layer, using one copy with a small value, 6 or less, to bring out highlight and small black detail and then a second copy with a larger value, like 50+ which has an almost HDR effect. I saw similar methods being used by Photoshop folks looking to emulate the look of David Hill and Dragan photography. Mostly folks over do it but it can look pretty slick if you're careful with it.

I like to work in linear light so some methodologies don't port without a lot of fuss because they're designed for blending modes that work best in the confines of legacy color spaces.

I can't take full credit for the conversion, I found another bloke who was needing it for something else he was doing and he set up a tutorial. I think I added the bit that made it work in linear-light mode though. I've had to do that for other effects, like my favorite preset that mimics cross-processing. ColorGHear has a few cross-process looks but I still like this one I got from another Photoshop tutorial better than anything else I've seen.

Its true, one of the filters only works in 16bit but I figure it's not being terribly bad, especially with AVCHD, plus how I tend to use it, depending on what I'm doing, is I'll only apply this to the luminance of the image. That's all you really want affected by sharpening anyhow. My luma will generally be less manipulated than color so there shouldn't be any degradation here starting with 8bit/10bit sources I'd expect.

My color manipulations will be coming through in another clip above these layers and then layed back down with the Color blending mode, mimicking how something like DaVinci lets you manipulate the luma and color of your footage independently, preventing unnecessary cross-talk or contamination. That way you can do things like enhance saturation without affecting the gamma of the image, etc.

I'm still using CC-CS6 for another month or two so I couldn't open the project file.

This thread remembered a video that I saw some time ago; I've managed to find it, and the guy used a similar technique of yours, but adding more unsharp masks with different settings.

Don't know if David is here in PV to talk about it.

@MarcioK nice! Though the guy doesn't really show the whole shebang going on behind the curtains ,-)

Because differences in how techniques are builded, I've chosen to "equalize" the kernel part to match HP.
No added grain after sharpening, camera GH3, -5-2-5-5, lens vivi 28-200 f3.5-5.3

As long as you tweak first box blur, levels and fast blur settings, the kernel method seems good to me IF it could be turned lighter on processing... or you have a powerful render workstation that chews whale bones for breakfast :P • As you can see below, lighten layer was set to 55% and darken to 77%. Also in the frame grab you can check how less noisier kernel is (normal as it masks), of course it is a still, you'll notice less of the grain in motion, but still

BurnetRhoades' high pass approach is very coherent and much more efficient,
like 4 times faster render, see below, more than good for most uses =)

Finally as an alternative to youtube grinding machine - despite proRes upload - I'll leave a copy (audio it's no good though)
in x264 FHD, case anyone wants to download it - sharp campari x264