How can I enhance the quality of an old movie

rrogan wrote on 1/13/2004, 8:35 PM

In the 80's I had spliced enough 8mm footage from the 60's and 70's for about 30 mins. I had it converted to VHS tape. I just finally got around to putting it in my PC to fix it up and put it on DVD. The Quality was degraded right from the 8mm tapes. I a lot of video editers have the filter to make the video look old. I'm looking for a filter to make my movie look young.

Any tips would be appreciated.

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/14/2004, 5:23 AM

What you need is the color correction found in Vegas. What you can try is to get a copy of VirtualDub (it’s free) and try the HSL and RGB filters, which will allow you to adjust the colors to bring them back to normal. You might also try the Dynamic Noise Reduction filter to smooth the clips out a bit. VirtualDub is an excellent tool to have in your video toolbox. Follow the links on their web site for some excellent plugins.

~jr

allyn wrote on 1/15/2004, 8:37 AM

movie studio has a number of video fx that could help out here.

there's one called "hsl adjust" to adjust hue, saturation, and luminance, and also a sharpen effect. perhaps you can use these. each of these has sliders to vary the degree of effect.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/15/2004, 12:17 PM

Yea, I forgot MovieStudio has HSL adjust too. That would be the easiest one to try first.

~jr

rrogan wrote on 1/17/2004, 9:46 PM

Thanks for the info. Those filters help. But I think I need something to reduce the noise it that's the proper terminology? I think due to the bad quality of the 8mm film that was converted.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/18/2004, 10:54 AM

For noise, try the Dynamic Noise Reduction filter in VirtualDub. It really does a nice job of smoothing out noisy video.

~jr

Richard Jones wrote on 7/28/2017, 5:38 AM

Using VHS as your new starting point is a backwards step in this day and age. It would be much better to have the cine film digitalised and placed on, say, a DVD disk or portable hard drive which can then allow you to import the film into Vegas for any further editing/correction you may think necessary. The quality will be much better but it is preferable to have this transfer done professionally by someone who uses a telecine transfer system which copies the film frame by frame. With only about 30 minutes to be copied this should not be too expensive but do make sure you use a pukka professional service that makes the frame by frame copies in the way I suggested otherwise you will be wasting your money.

Richard

Musicvid wrote on 7/28/2017, 12:28 PM

Look for instructional tips here and on YouTube from johnmeyer.

PatrickJackson wrote on 9/26/2017, 11:15 AM

Pile on the video effects until you get a good result

cris wrote on 9/28/2017, 6:47 AM

Yea, I forgot MovieStudio has HSL adjust too. That would be the easiest one to try first.

~jr

Just a word of caution - I found that HSL adjust was introducing noticeable artifacts (see my old thread https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/hsl-adjust-corrupts-the-final-image--102789/, unfortunately I removed the images from my dropbox )

The Color Corrector (Secondary, if you don't need the color scopes) is a much better tool.