Old VHS, what could you do?

[StuR]

it's abit washed out and my basic pro amp doesn't help much other than boosting the croma which is better.
This is the orig.

[hech54]

That looks pretty damn good already judging by the "era"...based on hair styles and clothing.

[Soopafresh]

You could add some vibrancy back to the color with VirtualDub or Avisynth filters. How about posting a few seconds of the captured original footage?

[redwudz]

This is with just the HSV and Levels filters in VirtualDub. With the Colormill filter you could do a lot better.



EDIT: ColorMill filter: https://forum.videohelp.com/images/guides/p1609789/colormill2.1.1.zip
Other VD filters: http://www.thedeemon.com/VirtualDubFilters/ or http://neuron2.net/

[Marvingj]

I'm in agreement try VirtualDub, But for that Era it does look like its in good shape. A little degrading but it still looks OK.....

[StuR]

Cheers for the replies.
Sorry was in a rush, its actually an origonal VHS 1994ish but from 1960's film. Those clothes give it away.
It's from 'The Prisoner' -Patrick McGoohan, and not important to me just want the tape gone (they'll repeat it one day) but it's begin used as an tester for this particular washing out.
I'll boosted the colour using my basic Proc Amp and I think it looked about the same as redwudz I'll post it soon for comparison.
What I wondered was if a full Pro Amp would help with this problem (before it was digitised i.e. via software) mine has 'Brightness/Contrast/Colour' the norm but what other facilities do others have to regain that sort of mid range tones.

[lordsmurf]

VirtualDub and/or TMPGEnc filters would help.
Proc amps have limits too.

[edDV]

Here I pulled down black level to zero leaving white at 100.
(left half adjusted)



Here I added 50% chroma saturation and shifted hue 3% to red.
(left half adjusted)



More could be done with gamma and edge sharpening.

[StuR]

That's very helpful I'll look over this again, cheers for trying.
I've been considering a better Proc amp but I think you have to have boundaries. The price/PQ curve seems to go up rapidly and I think I'd have to pay out alot to see much significant improvement. I'll keep software as an option.
prisoner_p%20a%2050.50.80.7-0%20xp_vlc_03.png
this pic is an example increasing the colour from 50 to 80 (range 0-100, 50 being no effect)
after veiwing on 3 screens I think a little less like 70 was better. The examples via software look good in stills but I think I'd find them a bit over saturated and 'technocolor'. After all you can adjust your tv easily for a little more effect, and too little is better than too much.

[themaster1]

msu has a filter to restore old footages colors i guess it could be very helpful

see here

[StuR]

thanks themaster1,
lots to think about in that link,
I've not explored the PC filtering route at all as of yet.