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November 22, 2017
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Enhancing video quality from VHS video tape

  • November 22, 2017
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Hi All.

I'm using Premiere Pro CC 2017 and I would like to enhance video quality on my DVD. The source on DVD I digitized from VHS video tape. That will my first such project. What utilities or plugins need to have and where to download them to start the job if it need? Where I can find most detail tutorials to study to enhance video in Premiere Pro CC?

Thanks.

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chrisw44157881
Inspiring
November 22, 2017

submit a screenshot. you can fix colors by reducing some offending colors like magenta with the hue wheel by watching sharp spikes in the vectorscope. and you can use a luma matte to only affect midtones and above with the unsharp tool. it works 10x better that way. if the colors are super off, you may need to use a hue control like in AE or photoshop to separate the wrong hues.

Make sure you understand what the skin tone line is and where it is located in the vectorscope. getting white balance right after the black point, white, grey point, and then color correcting works the best. the cineon filter works well for dark shadows. if you have flicker, I made a flicker removal tool in AE. you can normalize the saturation better with vibrance than saturation and I made a preset that will raise all saturation till all colors are normalized without looking crazy. Once you have all that, and degrain and remove spots, you can use the detail-preserving upscale effect in After Effects to resize larger. So, the best way we can help is if you post a png screenshot.

eugzlAuthor
Known Participant
November 22, 2017

So it will my first Premiere project can you suggest where can I find good and detail tutorials to perform my project in Premiere CC?

The screenshot of video:

Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 23, 2017

That's very low resolution.  I would be surprised if you could improve it much.

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 22, 2017

I found that it was important to create the digital copy by ensuring that VHS artifacts were not introduced. At that point, I was using a VHS to DVD converter that help to stabilize the VHS image.

eugzlAuthor
Known Participant
November 22, 2017

Thanks every body for replay.

The video by itself not to bad but because it digitized from VHS it is not sharp. It looks like video of beginning 90's. I would like to modify it to good modern video if it possible.

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 22, 2017

This might help:

Duplicate footage from V1 and superimpose in V2.

Add the Sharpen (or Unsharpen Maks) effect to V2 and set it to about 50.

Lower Opacity on V2 between 50 and 70.

Community Expert
November 22, 2017

Perhaps give an idea on what problems that you are seeing. Perhaps a screen shot.

brian704
Inspiring
November 22, 2017

There isn't much that can be done with VHS content. You can try an unsharp mask filter. Maybe take a look at Red Giant's "Instant 4k" but there just isn't much you can do with so little resolution.