Colour Banding/Flicker

[JohnMyler]

Hello, I am working on a project with some colour banding present (off old VHS recordings). The banding is a result of a poor reception pickup at the time of recording and is not due to the encoding.

I have a couple of questions which would be great to hear answers for.

1) Does any software have the capability to remove colour banding? It's only minor, and the picture is 80% actual colour, so there would be enough neighbouring pixels to match to?

2) As I don't know of any software that can do the above, I have manually removed the worst offending banding in Photoshop. This isn't actually too time consuming and looks really good - only problem being the final result has very subtle flicker on the repaired chroma. Would any software be able to reduce this? As each frame looks fine, I imagine it can only be the tiny chroma movement between each frame that produces this? So any ideas would be great.

Thank you
John

[Barnabas]

Post a couple of screen captures that show the banding.

[redwudz]

VirtualDub might be worth looking into. There are many filters for it. One filter site is: http://neuron2.net/ It does require you to use a AVI format, but VirtualDub Mod can accept MPEG and output AVI.

Someone might be able to suggest a specific VD filter that may help with your problem.

And welcome to our forums.