Video restoration

[peter762033]

Hi ive got a dvd which was ripped from an old vhs tape and just wanted to know if there was any software that could improve the quality? Iam aware that the end result would not be perfect but i was interested to see how much it could be improved,
here are a few screenshots,







thanks

[Undead Sega]

i take it it came from a camcorder? maybe from the late 80s?

it looks abit washed out, but the only thing i know that might help is to remove some of the very low frequency noise? and i assume its a shaky shot, you could use 2D3 SteadyMove Pro to help smooth some of the shots.

[peter762033]

thanks for the reply,

yea i think it probably is from a camcorder, and its from 1986. How could i remove the low frequency noise you talked about? Also could you give alink for a trail of 2D3 SteadyMove Pro?

thanks

[SatStorm]

You can fix a bit the colours, eliminate the colour and luma bleeding and kill the chroma bars because of the low chroma bandwidth of PAL VHS.

There are various virtualdub filters for those things

[peter762033]

ok, ive got virtual dub and virtual dub mod, what filters would i need? Also if i use virtual dub for these processes will the video be kept in lossless?

thanks

[saggitarius]

Is it possible to get the original VHS tape? The reason I ask is because just about anyone will tell you that if you are going to do any serious filtering it is always best to start with uncompressed AVI files before encoding to MPEG2. I have recently begun copying a bunch of old 8mm camcorder footage that I have and captured everything this way. One hour of tape takes about 13 gigs. I then used VirtualDub to cut the scenes to where I wanted and then did my filtering. I had some clips that were part of that original 13 gigs go well over the 25 gig mark when they had the filters applied to them, and these weren't even long clips!

[peter762033]

no im afraid ive only got this on dvd