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Re-Touching Music Video
Hi All,
I have just shot and directed a music video shot on Super 16mm, its looking really good, but I’d like to just clean up a few of the dust specs and hairs with after effects. I was wondering if anyone has some advice on the best work method with AE for this. I have tried the clone stamp, vector paint etc am no expert on these by any means. I was working with just one Blackmagic codec video file of the final cut, is this the best method? I’m ok with the techniques in photoshop but just getting them to happen over a period of time, then turning them off etc is where the trouble is…
Many thanks, Adam.
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Depending on how bad the problem is, or how picky you are, I’d try pre-processing it using VirtualDub:
VirtualDub:
https://www.virtualdub.org/Then try using the “SpotRemover” filter (hasn’t been updated in a while, but works really well):
https://konstant.freeshell.org/You could also try one of the temporal noise reduction filters, VD has one built in. Or try “Temporal Cleaner”:
https://home.earthlink.net/~casaburi/download/index.html#temporalcleanerOther than that, manual cloning is probably the best bet.
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best method for dust busting and removing hairs is with the clone stamp tool. set opasity and flow to 100 duration constant and use a time shift of either 2 or neg 2 that way when you clone you won’t get repeating grain. very important or you will see hits of still grain never clone from the same frame or the one next to it. then just shift the offset till the frame lines up it will go from blurry to sharp when aligned. once lined up paint away with a soft edged brush. The clone source overlay is a little weird in afx if you can try combustion, the paint operator is great. hope this helps
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