Any Way to Improve Video Quality?

[brispuss]

Six minute video from YouTube here, is of poor quality.

Video apparently taken from VHS tape.

Any way to improve the quality of this video by post processing?

[johnmeyer]

You might get rid of the flicker and a little noise, but there are not enough details to let you make it look sharper.

There might be a better version somewhere. This one was uploaded by someone who didn't even know how to spell "Carnac."

[Dooby]

No. There is just too little to work with. But i had to have a go! Left it over saturated just to improve what was there.

https://files.videohelp.com/u/313119/01.mp4

[brispuss]

Thanks for the comments and test clip.

I thought this video would be very difficult if not impossible to improve its quality.

I've tried to find a better quality version of the video but haven't been able to find a better copy so far.

[ridibunda]

No, there isn't.

Using Avisynth scripts about denoising and sharpening, or using an AI-enhance program, it doesn't matter, the results will be far from natural. So, don't waste your time.

The only solution is a remastering from the production company itself. They have the original copy, you have the VHS transfer of it. You have a quality-limited version and you cannot take it to a higher level like DVD quality or bluray quality.

[manono]

...you have the VHS transfer of it.

He has a YouTube reencoded version of a VHS copy, with no knowledge even of how the VHS tape was captured and then reencoded for upload to YouTube.

The VHS tape wouldn't have looked like that blurry mess.

[ridibunda]

Youtube re-encoding process does not change it to something else. It is still a VHS quality. It is still a VHS transfer.

[manono]

YouTube's low bitrate encoding most certainly does degrade anything uploaded.

The source may have been VHS, but VHS tapes look way better than does that mess. It's much worse than VHS quality. Something very bad happened between the tape and the YouTube version we've been shown.