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If it's any 'comfort', even BetaSP footage shot on professional cameras of the 90s - and brought in uncompressed via SDI from the original camera tapes, can be distinctly 'less than' what might otherwise be hoped for. Explain to Colin (either by phone or email) what it is you hope to achieve. The person I would be speaking to about this is one Colin McCormack of .uk His website is distinctly underwhelming I know, but he is extremely experienced in 'domestic video' transfer. there are many options for this and pages can be filled with discussions about it. If improvement is what you really seek I'd suggest a few things.ġ) Try and find the original camera tapes if at all possible - have them digitised.Ģ) Have your material transferred as uncompressed (if your system can handle these) or minimally compressed footage (files) in an readily-editable format. And if you do chose to upscale it, I'd advise doing that in a single step. distortion that you may or may not find subjectively pleasing, but distortion none-the-less. In other words, it's possibly as good as it can be, and upscaling and sharpening will just add more distortion. so there is already (in effect) and element of interpolation involved in the digitisation process - in effect your analogue signal is (arbitrarily) somewhat 'oversampled' in relation to the detail it would have contained. Analogue resolution (measured in lines) doesn't really translate directly into digital pixels. there's actually very little point in 'upscaling' this. I imagine (from what you say) your original footage was PAL and 'digitised' to a 720x576/25fps file. What looked OK on an old CRT isn't really relevant. So from the outset, you're at a disadvantage. Likewise, DVD isn't the best format for further processing as it's significantly compressed. that scope is very limited.įrom what you say, your footage is already '2nd generation' - dubbed to VHS and thus will have had its quality 'damaged'. 'AI'? Well, there is some scope for interpolating 'detail'. all you do is 'spread out' a thinly-detailed image. Merely 'scaling up' standard definition footage is a bit like drawing on a deflated balloon with a ballpoint pen, then inflating it. In other words - you can upscale, downscale and sharpen as much as you want, it will remain low-resolution footage - you can't sharpen what's not there. Most people of my family don't care much about the quality of the pictures, they just enjoy what they see and remember.ĭieter Scheel wrote:you can put lipstick on a pig but it still remains a pig. The magic of your family films is not the quality but the contents and the history they present. And lower your expectation about the final quality. Ask others to watch it and what they think. So, my advice would be - try it, fine-tune it. Unfortunately I lost the orginal Super 8 films a long time ago so all I had was the poorly transfered digital files from it. I managed to do as much as I could until I was satisfied with the results. I had to deal with a similar task to convert my old Super 8 scans to watchable HD or Full-HD. You might also fine tune sharpness but that makes things worse in many cases. That's just not possible.Īll you can do is to adjust color, brightness, contrast and framing to get rid of VHS head switching distortion and all that. There is no magical software that can transpose your old interlaced VHS footage into crisp 4K+ material. Well, you can put lipstick on a pig but it still remains a pig. Regards Attachments screenshot25.png (128.18 KiB) Viewed 7299 times Please guide me how to apply the sharpening filter of DaVinci Resolve 17 to enhance the quality of the video. There is some improvement, but the indoor picture still not sharp on the whole. But the video captured indoor is not very clear, not sharp. On the whole the video is not bad, of course unable compared to 4K video. Then I download the video from DVD to computer as. Recently I sent one VHS tape to a profession shop ripping it on DVD. The old video worked without problem on CRT monitor before. The old videos were captured on V8 tapes in about 1990 and later duplicated on VHS tapes with background music added and some minor editing. I expect learning how to use its sharpening tools to enhance the quality of my old videos. I have DaVinci Resolve 17 installed on Windows 10.
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