Good Resources To Clean Up Old VCR Tapes

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January 15, 2022
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I've been looking around on Youtube and Linked In Learning for tips and tricks to clean up some old home videos I just digitized off of VCR tapes from the 80's.

The typical color correction and exposure corrections need to happen but I'm looking to sharpen my Premire Pro skills with things like getting rid of grain, sharpening, gamma and audio correction. I'm also dealing with less than optimal resolution. I'm not sure if there's a way I can improve that.

Does anyone know of a good resource that glues together "video restoration" into a single video or course?

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Peru Bob

Community Expert

Neat Video may help:

https://www.neatvideo.com/

chrisw44157881

Inspiring

noise removal is already included in topaz.btw, so save your money. another note, the new framerate converter is pretty amazing. now the tricky part is deciding if you want to deinterlace or not. you can lay out fields per frame to keep same 'speed' look or deinterlace from 59.94 fields to 29.97p but then lose that fast motion feel, but you could framerate convert back up to 60fps again. now if you're exporting to dvd or bluray, you technically wouldn't need to deinterlace.

John T Smith

Community Expert

Read https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-lounge-discussions/topaz-video-enhance-ai/td-p/12636075

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Andy 1968

Inspiring

I use the method in the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVLUxRkPMdA

chrisw44157881

Inspiring

I don't have a perfect course available and honestly, the 'digitizing' is the most important part to get a clean image. After that, modern a.i. plugins like Topaz can de-interlace, sharpen, denoise, enlarge, etc. Most older video courses were created before Topaz and imho, are inferior and take more time with less satisfactory results.

So, hopefully you used a time based corrector with componant, not composite or s-video to get a strong, data rich encode with full interlacing fields at full native resolution. Everything after that, is pretty much academic with professional plugins.

The audio can be cleaned up with Izotope Rx. there's many video tuts on that. If you have white balance flicker , there's aescripts like "Light Equalizer for Premiere Pro" that can change color balance per frame or dedicated exposure flicker like Digital Anarchy's "deflicker".

As for color correction itself, any prominant youtuber with color restoration tips should get you on the right track and is going to be using cutting edge tools from 2022 instead of a course made 3 years ago for hundreds of dollars that is now obsolete. Technology changes very fast and the most up to date videos are going to be from the actual software developers or tech savy artists. If you want color theory, that's another story.

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