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Fixing pixelated footage from a bad DV tape
I have a DV tape that has either gone bad, or been recorded onto from a camera gone bad. The footage is pixelated in the same physical place in the frame, on and off through the whole tape. Searching has led me to “paint out the pixelation in each frame in photoshop”, but there’s way too many frames to do this.
Is there a tool/plugin/etc for Vegas that will fix this? A number of the scenes have very little movement in them, so I’m hoping a filter or somesuch could take the good frames before and after the pixelated ones and interpolate.
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8 Replies
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How big an area do you have to cover?
If it’s small,put the same media on the track below, then cut out the section with the cookie cutter using a soft edge on the original track. Shift the copy below using track motion by a few pixels so that the hole is now filled with the adjoining area.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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If you have Excalibur version 5 it also has a FIX BAD FRAME script that might be able to work for this.
Don -
[Gary Kleiner]
“How big an area do you have to cover?”Thanks Gary. It’s a column approximately 1/10th the width of the entire frame. The pixelation occurs mostly at the middle to upper part of the column, and seems random as to when it decides to show up.
“If it’s small, put the same media on the track below, then cut out the section with the cookie cutter using a soft edge on the original track. Shift the copy below using track motion by a few pixels so that the hole is now filled with the adjoining area.”
I’ll try that tomorrow. I’m assuming there can be *no* movement in the scene whatsoever for this to look natural? Unfortunately there are parts of the footage where the camera was handheld.
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[Don Bloom] “If you have Excalibur version 5 it also has a FIX BAD FRAME script that might be able to work for this.”
Thanks Don, I’ll take a look at this. I figured with Vegas’s scripting power there was something like this out there.
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That is designed to fix a FRAME that’s bad. Not fix an area of multiple frames.
Edward Troxel
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Before you go any further, try playing this problem tape back in a different brand of camcorder. Various customer tapes come into our studio with pixelation problems like yours. They often play just fine on our Sony units vs. Canon, etc. Good Luck!
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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Hi All,
I had a pixelated problem a while ago from a bridal shower. It was only noticable in the editing process. I couldn’t understand why this happened. I just recently had my Canon GL2 cleaned and checked out by Canon. It was happening to all my brand new tapes that I record on from that point on. I always used the same name brand tapes (maxell) and I never switch tape brands. So I went out to buy a brand new cheap Canon camcorder from Sams Club and use it only for transfering my footage to the timeline in Vegas6. Guess what? That solved my problem. Whatever Canon had done internally to my GL2, it now transferes with pixelation in my footage. It was now beyond the 30 day period and to get this fix I had to pay another $100 just to check this problem out by Canon. That sucks. Now you know the rest of the story. Good Luck with your pixelation problem.
Ralph Hajik
Westmont, IL
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The resolution in case anyone with the same problem comes a searchin’:
The cookie-cutter method was impossible to use in my case as the pixelation was just too random and intense at points (there were patches of up to a second or so). But, I was finally able to get my hands on another camera (Canon; the original importing camera was a Sony), and lo and behold it worked perfectly! All footage was captured without a single instance of pixelation. Thanks to all for the help.
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