genocolo Loc: Vail and Gasparilla Island

I have recently digitized my old family Kodak Super 8 reels using a Wolverine Film2digital Movie Maker. The results are ok, but some are pretty fuzzy and the colors are not great. Any suggestions for improving the videos in pp? What programs do you recommend? Any other advice?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

You can improve the color with color grading, which is similar to post processing still pics. I use Adobe Premiere Pro for post processing videos. It works very much like Adobe Photoshop does on stills. It has all the same controls over lightness, contrast, shadows and highlights, saturation and hue, etc. Video is actually just a bunch of stills shown at 24 or 30 frames per second, so the process is the same as for stills. As far as being fuzzy, it's like a still pic being fuzzy, there's not much you can do about it. You can edit the fuzzy sequences out. If your film has audio that you want to keep, you can use still pics to fill the void where you cut out the video. Another possibility is to use special effects on the fuzzy parts, like turn them into silhouettes or increase the gamma to make them look like posters, etc.

genocolo Loc: Vail and Gasparilla Island

Thank you for taking time to share your suggestions. I wonder whether a commercial service might have done a better job than my wolverine? Now that I know which reels are the most valuable from memories standpoint, I may try a commercial service on them in addition to trying your suggestions.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

Along the way I lost my large 8mm reel of home movies before I had a chance to digitize them. If I still had them I would try projecting them and using my 4K FZ80 camera on a tripod to take a video of the projection.