Adding color to a video film

Forum,
I have a video recorded some years ago.
I shows a cat with her four kittens who are about eight weeks old.
How ever all is grey(gray).
Is there any procedure in COLOR to add colour to this video.
The background is mainly a white utility room.
The mother is a tortishell while the kittens are mainly grey but two of them have some pinky and orange fur.
If some one could give me some guidance or even recommend a book I could purchase I would be very grateful.
Michael Craven.

michael craven1 wrote:
I shows a cat with her four kittens who are about eight weeks old.
How ever all is grey(gray).
Is there any procedure in COLOR to add colour to this video.
The background is mainly a white utility room.
The mother is a tortishell while the kittens are mainly grey but two of them have some pinky and orange fur.
If some one could give me some guidance or even recommend a book I could purchase I would be very grateful.
Hello, Michael
if the footage has faded you can use the shadows and highlight and gray scale contrast sliders in conjunction with increasing the saturation which should bring back the color
if the footage was shot in b&w then what jp owens said
victor

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