Well if you had read my post carefully, you would have noticed that we did not shoot this footage. And that is why we are searching for a post fix (if we had filmed this we would have made sure our tape heads were clean). Unfortunately, we are stuck with what we were given, but thank you for your input. I believe that this was caused during the recording process because our tape decks are well maintained and we have tried it on multiple decks. We are thinking of sending the tapes to sony to see if they can fix them, however that seems like a lot of expense for this project because we are doing it as a charity case for a minimal charge. What we are really looking for is a plug-in or software that can make these problems less evident (we have pretty much given up on a total fix).
Thank you for your suggestions thus far guys, and if anyone else has more ideas please keep them coming.
Thanks,
Tim