Enhance the Clip You Have, or Regenerate It at a Higher Tier?
On a finished 480P segment, open Edit this clip → Enhance and note the price on the cards; then pick Wan 3.0 · 720P in the tier picker beside Generate Video and note that price. Neither is charged until you press.
The difference in one table
| Enhance | Regenerate on a higher tier | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | The same take, at the next resolution step | A new take, rendered at the tier’s resolution |
| Framing, motion, timing | Unchanged | Comes out differently each time |
| Dialogue, voices, lips | Unchanged; the sound is not touched | Performed again; a line can land differently |
| Faces | Instant HD redraws nothing; AI Detail may shift a face slightly; Cinema Restore cleans noise and blur | Drawn again from the character images |
| How far up | One step from the clip’s original resolution, up to 2K | Whatever the tier makes: Wan 3.0 · 720P, Wan 3.0 · 1080P and others |
| Price | Per second, by option and target resolution; shown on each card | Per second at the tier’s rate; shown on Generate Video |
| Where | Edit this clip → Enhance | Tier picker beside Generate Video, then regenerate |
| Old version | Kept in Version History | Kept in Version History |
Enhance when the take is right
A generation is partly luck. When a segment finally has the look on her face, the timing of the door and the line delivered just so, a new generation — even at a higher tier — can lose all of it. Enhance keeps the take and changes only the picture’s resolution and detail. Pick it when:
- You are happy with everything except that the clip looks soft at 480P.
- The segment took several tries to get right and you do not want to roll the dice again.
- You want a 2K version of a 1080P hero shot for a trailer or a thumbnail; none of the Wan 3.0 or Seedance tiers on this site makes 2K, enhance does (MiniMax H3 generates at 2K, but that is a new take with its own rules).
- The clip is noisy or blurred and you want it cleaned (Cinema Restore).
Regenerate when something in the take is wrong
Enhance does not fix content. A wrong face, a wrong action, a wrong room, a mispronounced name or a line delivered badly will be exactly as wrong, only sharper. Regenerate when:
- The shot itself is wrong. Fix the cause in the storyboard or the images first, then regenerate. When a shot comes out wrong.
- You want two steps or more: from 480P to 1080P in one go. Enhance only goes one step from the original, and enhancing again replaces the earlier enhanced version instead of stacking.
- You need something only a different tier does, such as longer segments or another tier’s strengths. Which model for which purpose.
- The clip is old enough that Enhance says We can’t find a clean original of this clip, so it can’t be enhanced. Regenerate it first.
How the prices compare
Both are priced per second of the segment, and both show the full price before you press, so the comparison is two numbers on your screen:
- Enhance: the card you select in Edit this clip → Enhance. The rate depends on the option and on the resolution you are going to.
- Regenerate: the price on Generate Video with the higher tier picked. For the Wan 3.0 tiers that is 19 credits a second at 720P and 38 credits a second at 1080P, against 10 at 480P.
Two things the bare prices do not show. A regeneration is a new roll of the dice: if it comes out wrong, you pay the higher tier again for the retake, while enhance has no retake risk on the content. And enhance comes on top of what the 480P take already cost; if you know from the start that a segment must be 1080P, generating it on a 1080P tier once can be the shorter road. 480P, 720P or 1080P · Where your credits go in one episode.
The draft-then-finish workflow, with enhance
Drafting an episode at 480P and finishing the good segments at a higher tier now has two finishing moves:
- Generate every segment at the default 480P tier.
- Watch, note what is wrong, fix the cause (storyboard, images, state picks), and regenerate those segments at 480P until each one is right.
- For each segment you keep: enhance it if you want this exact take sharper; regenerate it at 720P or 1080P if you would rather have a native take at that tier and can accept a different performance.
- Composite. The episode joins the active version of every segment; segments at different resolutions are fine together, and the full-episode export tops out at 1080P.
Draft at 480P, finish at 1080P covers the arithmetic of the regenerate route.
Do the fixes first, enhance last
Enhance is the last step for a segment, because two of the other fixes work from the original clip:
- AI visuals and Redub start from the original, so their new version is not enhanced. The tab says so: This version was edited from the original clip, so it isn’t enhanced — you can enhance it again.
- Trim keeps the enhancement: a trimmed enhanced version stays enhanced and is not charged again.
- Regenerating makes a new take; enhance that one if you want it sharper.
Seeing the difference before you decide
Everything is kept as a version, so the cheapest test is to try and compare. Enhance once, then switch between Enhanced and the original in Version History with Use — switching is free. Watch the faces in the close-ups if you used AI Detail, and judge on the screen size your audience will use: on a phone, a clean 720P is often all that shows. Segment versions.
| You want | Pick |
|---|---|
| This exact take, sharper | Enhance |
| A face, an action or a line fixed | Fix the storyboard or images, then regenerate |
| 480P to 1080P in one step | Regenerate on a 1080P tier |
| A 2K version of a 1080P segment | Enhance |
| A grainy or blurred clip cleaned | Enhance, Cinema Restore |
| Every segment of a new episode at 1080P from the start | Generate on a 1080P tier |
FAQ
Is a 720P regeneration better than an enhanced 480P clip?
It is a different thing. A regeneration renders a new take natively at 720P; an enhanced clip is your existing take raised one step. If the take matters more than native detail, enhance; if you need the native tier and can accept a new performance, regenerate.
Does enhance change the lip movement?
The sound is not touched and the motion is the same take. Instant HD redraws nothing; AI Detail redraws fine detail, so mouths and faces can shift slightly. Regeneration performs the lines again from scratch.
Which is cheaper?
Compare the two numbers on your screen: the selected card in the Enhance tab, and the Generate Video button with the higher tier picked. Remember that a regeneration can need a retake at the higher price, and enhance comes on top of what the first take cost.
Can I enhance a clip twice to go from 480P to 1080P?
No. Enhance goes one step from the original resolution, and enhancing again replaces the previous enhanced version. For 1080P from 480P, regenerate on a 1080P tier, or regenerate at 720P and enhance that.
Can I try both and keep the better one?
Yes. Both results are versions of the segment. Switch between them in Version History with Use; switching is free, and the active one is what plays, downloads and goes into the composite.
Do I lose the enhancement if I edit the clip afterwards?
Trim keeps it. AI visuals and Redub work from the original, so their result is not enhanced; enhance again if you want it sharper.
Can a whole episode be 2K?
Single segments can be enhanced to 2K and downloaded at 2K, but the full-episode export tops out at 1080P.
Does a higher tier fix a face that keeps changing?
No, and neither does enhance. A drifting face comes from the storyboard or the character images; fix it there and regenerate.
Two prices on one screen, then decide
Open a finished segment: the Enhance cards and the Generate Video button both show their price before anything is charged.
Updated October 13, 2026
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