Help cleaning up a bad video

[VWW]

Hi

I have captured video from a very old camcorder but the video has many flickering colour lines etc. I have tried capturing the video a number of times but the lines are always there. Anyway... i was wondering if there were any filters or any other way of cleaning the video up so that i can remove or reduce the presence of these lines.

Thanks!

[edDV]

Here is what it looks like on the scope.
The areas that are clipped to white will be difficult to improve.

What software do you have there?

[edDV]

Here (right side) I just adjusted white level, black level and gamma.
This is Sony Vegas but most editors have these simple filters.

[VWW]

I have VirtualDub, TMPGEnc, and Adobe Premiere Pro.... obviously i can download any other free software too.
Thanks for checking it out in Vegas... it certainly does look improved. However i am more concerned with the horizontal coloured lines (quite prominent in the top half of the image)... is there any way to clean them up a bit? Its just when the video is playing they are very distracting and annoying. I can't really tell in the picture of the image you cleaned up whether they are improved much.
I am quite new to this stuff so yeah consider me a newbie to video editing.

[edDV]

I have VirtualDub, TMPGEnc, and Adobe Premiere Pro.... obviously i can download any other free software too.
Thanks for checking it out in Vegas... it certainly does look improved. However i am more concerned with the horizontal coloured lines (quite prominent in the top half of the image)... is there any way to clean them up a bit? Its just when the video is playing they are very distracting and annoying. I can't really tell in the picture of the image you cleaned up whether they are improved much.
I am quite new to this stuff so yeah consider me a newbie to video editing.

Premiere Pro can easily do the same levels and gamma. I did nothing with the lines.

Those blueish lines seem irregular and will be difficult to correct. You can't just apply a filter to the whole image.

[VWW]

Ah ok... i will check out Premiere Pro's stuff then... see what i can come up with.

I had a friend that just suggested to me that i run deinterlace on it.... should i? I think i read somewhere that you shouldn't if you are going to burn the movies onto a DVD later.

[edDV]

Ah ok... i will check out Premiere Pro's stuff then... see what i can come up with.

I had a friend that just suggested to me that i run deinterlace on it.... should i? I think i read somewhere that you shouldn't if you are going to burn the movies onto a DVD later.

Best not to deinterlace. You can experiment as you wish.

The errors would show in the deinterlaced video as well.