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Editing fields?
I have a question about sub frame editing. A producer wants me to get rid of tape hits. I didn’t even know that was possible! She assures me that it is and that the previous editor had been able to do it. It has something to do with editing on the field level of a video clip. I think I saw a tutorial on this somewhere but I can’t remember where it is. Is it possible to edit out tape hits and if so how?
– Avid Adrenaline
– Macintosh
– Source: Beta SP
– Project: DV NTSC, 29.97 fps, lower filed first
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First, map ‘step by field’ to your keyboard, or you probably won’t find half of the hits.
Then there are a several ways to do this.
To ‘really’ destroy one field is a lot of work.
Have a field rendered slomo clip below your original and do a 1 frame wipe on the hit.But if you have an Adrenaline, you have the paint option.
Park on your video, hit the paint button and paint out the hit. (this takes a part of the image from the previous frame. Works great if there aint much motion)Bouke
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you’d be surprised how removing that frame will work. as bouke mentioend, get in that area, step back a field at a time and when you see ther droput mark an in and an out and hit ther scissors with all tracks selected. uo can thro a lil one fame dissolve on the audio if ya need to.
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Thanks, the ‘step by field’ command was really helpful. I was able to:
– isolate the bad field
– freeze the good frame that preceded it
– and then paste it over the following frame that contained the bad field.Then I cropped the frame so that just the glitch would be covered up like a band aid. This obviously isn’t the ideal way to do this but I couldn’t figure out how to paint over the bad field properly. Do I use the paint effect ? And once I paint over the ‘bad’ part of the field how do I fill the patch with video from the ‘good’ field instead of just a color? It seems like under the Mode setting inside the paint effect I select erase or clone but neither seems to work. Or instead of the paint effect do I just use the scratch removal effect and if so how?
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Usually for stuff like this I use Scratch Removal, though it could also be done with Paint Effects, or the way you did it.
I am not going to give you the step by step. Just search for Scratch Removal in the Help Menu. It’s all there….everything you need to know, in great detail, better than I can describe here.
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May I humbly ask what a tape hit is? I’ve never heard the term, and searches turn up nothing.
Thanks…
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a drop-out, in this case in analogue tapes.
Most of the time just in one field (and of course always in the field that isn’t displayed when paused)Bouke
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Thanks for the explanation. Much appreciated.
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It’s just what they called it at this shop where I worked. It’s also known as a glitch or anomaly.
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