This is incredibly delightful, thank you for sharing.
Now that you have reasonably high quality versions of the videos you can start exploring other things to “enhance” the videos. If you want to make a parent cry, surprise them with a 1080p (or more) version of their 1970s wedding that was transferred from Super 8 tape. I spent way too long exploring the options and trying my own models there, in the end I did some hand tweaking and used Topaz for the rest. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than the Super 8.
My family had some of our 8mm film 60's - 80's and early VHS tape "professionally" transferred to DVD a while back. It was expensive and compared to the sources the quality is poor. Hopefully the sources don't degrade too much before I have a go at transferring them.
Bumping the frame rate up using SVP was an easy enhancement and worked surprisingly well.
Now that you have reasonably high quality versions of the videos you can start exploring other things to “enhance” the videos. If you want to make a parent cry, surprise them with a 1080p (or more) version of their 1970s wedding that was transferred from Super 8 tape. I spent way too long exploring the options and trying my own models there, in the end I did some hand tweaking and used Topaz for the rest. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than the Super 8.