Hi,
I've got some old concert footage that I'm restoring from VHS, I am very comfortable with VirtualDub and it's filters (including Neat Video) and know enough AviSynth to get by. The problem is the clip I'm working on has been bounced several times (probably at least 4 generations). It is over-saturated with colour banding running across the top and bottom, the picture has become very blurred so sharpening filters only intensify the bleeding of the colors and edges. In my experience Neat Video has been a great way to snap up VHS Sources that are 1 or even 2 generations bounced, in this case even at conservative settings it removes the tiny bit of detail that is left and though the larger frequency noise is removed, things like eyebrows and guitar strings are indistinct. Correcting the colour and hue causes the banding to become equally apparent except in different colours, and reducing the saturation makes it look worse, the saturation seems to be the glue that defines the edges! I've used Convolution, Peachsmoother, UnDot and some of the AviSynth filters as well, all of them remove too much detail. MV Tools is over my head at this point. This is rare footage (no not camcorder!) that is unavailable elsewhere. I guess what I'm really looking for is a way to increase the sharpness and clarity, This would be a good time for someone to tell me to crop it, burn it, watch it, forget it, but I'm open to other suggestions as well().
BTW the footage is currently in PicVideo MJPEG AVI and the capture is good.