Can final cut pro be used to clean scratches from digital images taken from 8 mm film

I had some 8 mm movies digitally transferred and are now into iMovie. The last batch was water damaged and had the vinegar syndrome problem. (See samples below). I also have a movie that is good quality but moves in and out because the film was bent or curled causing a distorted transfer to 16 mm film.
I would like to clean off the scratches, debris and sharpen the images. I would like to recolorize some of them if possible. Any hope for this or do I wait a few years until the technology becomes available?
Thanks
Frank Abernathy
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That's a very specialized task that FCP X (nor any other NLE) does out of the box. You'd need something like this- http://www.thepixelfarm.co.uk/product.php?productId=PFClean
Or to be honest it's worth hiring a post house to do this sort of work. Some have automated systems that can run pretty affordable for surprisingly good work.

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