My answer to this in the past has been to reduce resolution of the footage. I've got some stills of a TV set in a room setting and I overlaid some old VHS footage from my very first video camera to make it look like it was on the TV. Worked OK for me but not perhaps appropriate to your needs.

You do have both Video Enhancement and Video Denoise in Fix / Enhance. Apply each and both and play with the adjustments to increase edge detail and reduce noise.

Like tomasc said - adjust those items and do so until you are satisfied - adjust to your own liking.

I do not know of any 'general settings' (values with Video Enhancement and Video Denoise/Enhance) that would give you or provide universally consistent results. Those values will depend on the quality of video you start with obviously.

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Quote: You do have both Video Enhancement and Video Denoise in Fix / Enhance. Apply each and both and play with the adjustments to increase edge detail and reduce noise.

Tomasc!

You beat me to it! I was about to suggest the very same myself! But I will add this: nalab1, as you know, content from VHS-C cam-corders(or any analogue tape-based cam-corders, for that matter) are in 4:3 aspect ratio. But Cyberlink has this magic tool that converts 4:3 out to 16:9 wide-screen without making anyone in the video look like they've been "raiding the refridgerator"! It's called CLPV and works by shaving a few lines off the top and bottom of the image(bot not too much) as it stretches out the width to the left and right of screen. So once you have the settings in Fix/Enhance "tweaked" to your liking, try CLPV to give your video (almost) the appearance of being shot on a digital recorder. Only you will know the true source, ha-ha! By the way, video denoise.... brilliant, when properly employed can really clean up those old analogue videos! I use it often myself when transferring old content from tape to disc, which I still do on behalf of friends.

Cheers!

Neil.

Thank you for the advice. I was looking on the forums for the same answer to my problem. I am new to PowerDirector 14 and have been learning as much as I can. The only plug-in that i new of to fix bad video noise was Neat Video, but it doesn't look like they have a plug-in for powerdirector. I am glad PowerDirector has included such a useful tool built into it. I am loving learning about it.