Video filter suggestions?

Hi,
I have some Super-VHS footage from my brother wrestling back in the early to mid 90's. It looks like video shot on a S-VHS camera...a little bit blocky and not the cleanest looking pic. So I am wondering what type of video filters do people generally use on something like this. Just a few basic filters or process's would be awesome. I want to do more than just transfer it and edit the contents for time. So what kind of filters should I look at? I am running FCstudio 2 but I really havent even checked out the other programs like color...livetype...compress and the others...

Damballa wrote:
I was just looking to slightly clean up the image. Its not terrible. But its not the greatest. I was hoping that there would be a template or 2 for fixing up VHS video. I realize that there is no way to make it look like it was shot yesterday on a HD camera. But there must be a few tricks to slightly enhance or maybe take away the blocky jittery look.
I've never gotten a VHS tape that's blocky. That would suggest it was shot on a digital camera and dubbed off to VHS.
Anyway, you can use any of the blurs to gently reduce the harshness of the blockiness. Noise in the blacks is impossible to mask without special tools from third parties.
You might want to simply purchase a VHS-to-DVD recorder. Probably easier and certainly more convenient than capturing, applying filters, rendering, transcoding, burning.
bogiesan

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