Cleaning up footage

I am importing old analog 8mm tapes via a digital 8, ther seems to be some minor fuzziness, once i import i have to take it in qt or mpeg stream clip anyhow to crop it, any tools i can use to clean up this fuzziness?
On the digital8 camcorder I have the dnr and tbc enabled but still fuzzy
Message was edited by: rwltrz4

Your computer is a non-interlaced display and does not show video destined for an interlaced display such as a CRT TV.
Connect a TV to your Digital 8 and play the Timeline so you see the output on the TV. This will give a true indication of how the footage really looks.
Al

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