Color Improvement for digitized video

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April 3, 2024
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I'm apparently unable to upload video here, but I was interested in suggestions for improving video I digitized from a 1980's vhs tape that is very dark. It is a dance routine in a dark club with smoke effects. I usually use Auto Smart Tone and Apply it and then when its done I use custom and judge by eye how much adjustment is required to render an image based on black being black, skin tone, white color etc. But for this one I was curious if exploring other elements like color, color correction, gamma and lighting might be worth the extra time and effort to learn how to use them.?

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Peru Bob

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Each video poses its own challenges and may behave differently than others with the same effects applied.

Give it a try and see what happens.

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mpmoran0315Author

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Thanks for the reply. I checked each one of the individual settings such as Color, Gamma. Lighting. T&T and they didn't help much. So I ran the "SmartFix" auto-analyze that I usually skip because it takes so long and that rendered some improvement. So I saved that version. But when I went back to run the "Auto SmartTone" that I normally use , it wouldn't give me the grid with the four quadrants so I could manually pick the most pleasing to my eye rendering. Even though I had reset the SmartFix settings back to the original video. I can't recall ever having this happen before. I have a dropbox account so I could upload the files there if that is helpful.

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