Color Improvement for digitized video

[mpmoran0315]

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.?

[Peru Bob]

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.

[mpmoran0315]

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.