Restoration of super 8 film / filter question VirtualDub

[rjonkers]

My dad had his old super8 films professionaly transferred to DV tape. Now I trying to enhance them a little by using different VirtualDub filters. I'm trying to lower the noise, reduce the flickering (a little left) and enhance the colors, make them more vivid. The films are a combination of inside shots with lot of noise and outside shots with not very vivid colors. After playing a little with various VirtualDub filters, I was hoping someone could point me in the right filter direction for optimum results.

[lordsmurf]

I think if you try to pump up colors any more than what these shots show, you'll get bleeding and chroma noise. Leave it alone is my advice.

If it looks washed out on the tv, tune up the tv color a little bit, don't mess with the video files.

If anything these look a tad dark, but I don't know much about the source, or if these are random picked images that just happen to be darker scenes.

Your flesh tones are good, and the red is on the verge of being a problem. You lack greens and blues, but that's how the film was back then, especially as it aged. Just chalk it up to nostalgia and move on.

That's my suggestion.

[rjonkers]

Thanks lordsmuf. Would it be smart to try to denoise and/or deflicker the films a bit or isn't is worth it do you think?

[lordsmurf]

True, I hadn't thought about that. I would have guessed "professionaly transferred" would have taken care of that aspect for you. Can't be too professional if they did not do so.