Question about improving video quality "after the fact&

[parkay2]

Is there any way of "touching up a video" to improve the quality of the video a bit. I guess I'm looking for a program that works like photo editors do. IE: "fix colors", sharpness, contrast, glossm effect, etc... I made a pretty good video from a 2 hr movie, but the colors were a bit different not wrong but a bit different. Also, one of the female characters at one point during the movie had a very subtle striped shirt on. The shirt was light pink with slightly darker pink stripes in it. By watching the video you can see the subtle stripes. When watching the DVD+R that I created the shirt looked like a oink shirt with no stripes. Other than that except for the DVD looking just a bit duller than the original video, I was marginally satisfied. Thanks!!!

[twodogs]

use virtualdub filters
or are you using other software ?

[Bodene]

Any time u convert video from one format to another, you will get degredation of video and audio quality. This is especially true if your ORIGINAL was not a DVD. If you converted from MPEG or an AVI that somebody else created into DVD-Video format, there's very little you can do to make it better. Tiz all in how THEY ripped it. Once you've lost the quality, it's gone.

I once saw a post on another forum from a guy who wished to convert an MPEG1 movie into a MPEG2, cuz MPEG2's have better video quality. Hello....your quality will never get any better than the original.

My opinion is, anything u try to do to the movie file will be pretty much futile.

Since u are *Marginally Satisfied* with your DVD, consider yerself lucky and enjoy the flick.