Posted by Richard Crowley on 07/02/07 15:24

"Ubertrout" wrote ...
> Hey all...I posted a bit ago about transferring Umatic to DVD. Short
> story long, I ended up talking to the producers and they used a
> contractor to duplicate the series. All fine and well.
>
> The difficulty is that the contractor used the VHS copies, and not the
> Umatic originals. And they seem to have just done a direct stream
> copy (albeit using good machines, so sync is fine). I also have some
> home movies that I copied to DVD from VHS using a Panasonic Unit, but
> the video quality is abysmal there too (problem there too was the
> source). Is there a PC program I could use to easily clean up the
> image quality? Money is less a concern than convenience, although if
> Premiere Elements can do it well, all the better. Thanks for your
> help in advance.

Exactly what image quality issues do you want to "clean up"?
Given the source and methods you outlined, I wouldn't have
very great expectations for significant improvement. :-(

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