Clean my captured videos

Hello,
I would like to capture some realy old video tapes from our archive. Some of them have a unbeliveable bad quality.
So, I'm thinking about to buy Final Cut Studio as my solution to get happy with. But nobody can answer question.
Has Final Cut enough filters, tools and so on to clean up my videos so that it looks like a new one. So I think about pumping up the saturation, remove some bad color faults, remove noise, sharpen it, get rid of scratches. Also some filters like 2D/3D Y/C Separation, Digital 3D Noise Reduction and Digital Line Time Base Corrector as found in some hardware boxes would be very nice.
Is it possible to do that with Final Cut, or should I buy Plugins or other Software.
Nice Greetings
Andre
PS: Please excuse my bad english... it is not the best. ;o)

You might want to try Cleaner 6.x. It has several sophisticated filtering utilities to include temporal processing. But It will still only do so much. Cleaner is slow to render and you may need to do some experimenting witht the various settings. Pick a short segment to try various render settings and render often to determine the best settings for your situation. When you capture your footage follow the previous advice!! Use a high quality deck and run it through a TBC.
Hope this helps.
Dave F

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