Improving High 8mm quality in FCP

I have captured Hi 8mm wedding footage that was shot on High8 Sony professional camcorder 10 years ago. As we all know it looks awful compare to the DV format. What would be the recommendation, beside color correction, for improving the final quality.
Thanks,

So, my advice is if you have more than this tape in your vault, either keep your playback gear for the format serviced or do a bulk transfer to a more current format.< </div>
Worth repeating. Ask any IT geek responsible for maintaining financial and regulatory documents on servers. They convert to new storage media every year or two and, if pressed, they will tell you there's no way to test the viability of the older material.
Q: How would anyone use a VisiCalc file from 20 years ago?
A: They'd have to find the hard copy.
I've got a closet full of 8mm, Super8, and 16mm film, stacks and stacks of Kodak Carousel trays, tens of thousands of 35mm slides in boxes, and drawers full of color and monochrome prints. Some of this stuff is more than 100 years old. Yet I can still look at it because the presentation technology was mechanical (not necessarily analog, silver nitrate conversion is absolutely binary).
Hardly any of my hundreds of 3/4" and Betamax (not BetaSP) tapes are viewable. The oxide is falling off the base. We may never get around to copying our hundreds of BetaSP tapes to DV or DVD. We may never get around to copying our DV tapes to DVD or hard drive storage.
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