Sharpening up Video Footage

Hi – first time poster here and hoping for some guidance. I’m using Photoshop Creative Cloud for editing my aerial photography/videography work. I am using a GoPro camera (with a modified flat lens) and I am now starting to experiment with “Protune”, which is basically GoPro’s version of RAW (in my understanding). As expected, the untouched imagery is not sharp. My question is – how does one sharpen this in post using Photoshop CC. I have looked at a few tutorials, but all those seem to relate to stills, not video. So, is there a way to sharpen video in Photoshop?
Thanks!

Fantastic - thanks so much - that worked perfectly

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I can't see any options from within Streamclip to sharpen the video further.
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