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Sharpen the video?

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76papa


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Am working on editing a movie I made in 1962 on 8mm film. This was converted to VHS years ago and now to digital and copied into imovie for editing. With each transfer image quality suffered and the sharpness now sucks. Anyone use a video enhancer like "Smoke" and would recommend it or some other software?
 
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I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news, but well ... the bottom line is that VHS was a truly awful format and there's not a whole lot you can do to restore the image quality from that level. Any chance you can find the original 8mm? If so and it's still intact, you could get quite a beautiful transfer done from any local video-conversion house.
 

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