On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:24:03 GMT, "Dave" <dj76116@swbell.net> wrote:

> I have a few people with videos that are old and I'm looking for a

>hardware/software solution it order to fix the video's

>bright/contrast/color/hue to make it look more like the original. I've

>tried it with MSPro but one of us is not that good at it..(Probably me) Is

>there some good processing hardware or even software that I can say run the

>video through from a VCR to the camera, dump it to the computer to re-edit

>then make a new master from? Hate to use the term "Digitally re-Mastered"

>it's so over used, but that's what I want to do. I'm on a budget but I

>don;t want cheap stuff. I know I rambled but best I can explain it, any

>help would be appreciated. Not looking to copy DVDs or anything like that.

>It seems to be about that time now when home videos from 10-20 years ago are

>going to start to fade and loose quality.

>

>Thanks, Happy New Year and have a great weekend.

For "quick", I find the Videonics video EQ useful for

adjusting color saturation, balance, and hue - and

picture brightness/contrast and sharpening; for "careful",

a good editing program (like MSPro, Premiere, etc.)

can be used. With any of these a bit of practice is

needed to optimize results - and testing is needed to

optimize characteristics for best-quality return to

VHS, if you do this (I would keep the DV masters...).