Restoring natural colors to cartoon, and removing noise from bottom

[tranzadikt]

I'm trying to restore the full vibrant colors back to this video, and also remove the black lines at the bottom



I own Vegas 7

Is there a program that can do that for me? the show was recorded from a VHS to DVD but i do not own the Original VHS's anymore and hope to restore it as much as possible


thankyou

[Soopafresh]

VirtualDub with a plugin or two would work pretty well. Crop the bottom and increase the saturation level to bring some color back.

[manono]

Hi-

I resaturate colors using the Sat portion of the AviSynth filter, Tweak:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Tweak

When I see that VHS garbage along the bottom, I crop it away and either fill in the missing space with black using the AddBorders filter, or resize it back to the original dimensions for DVD. Since you have some black along one side, I'd probably crop that away as well and resize back to 720x480:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Crop
http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/AddBorders
http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Lanczos4Resize

And since that pic is kind of blurry, I'd also sharpen it up some:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/LimitedSharpen

Others would do it differently, or using different tools. Some would leave that VHS garbage along the bottom alone, since it's usually hidden by the TV overscan. But not I.

[tranzadikt]

does anyone have a good avisynth guide

i dont get how to use it

[lordsmurf]

Cropping is a horrible idea. It distorts the remaining image. Mask it, if you must. You won't see it on a tv set anyway. It's in the overscan.

Daria did not have "vibrant" colors. That was not the art style palette used. It's a bit muted, as compared to Beavis & Butthead.