Adding color to desaturated video

HELP! Filmed high school graduation with live switcher and the video has NO color. IS there any way to add color back to the video using FCP or any plugin?
G5   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

If there is literally no colour on the source, you're doomed, I'm afraid. If it's just extremely unsaturated (very washed out), you can try the Colour Corrector and turn up the saturation. But be warned - it will add noise to your picture.
There's simply no way to add colour back where there was none to start with (barring expensive and very time consuming colourisation approaches).

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