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4 Dead Pixels. Is there a fix available?
I shot a film on DV and discovered my Canon GL1 had 4 dead pixels half way through the shoot. Unable to re-shoot some of the scenes I am left with footage containing 4 dead pixels, I was wondering if there was a plugin or a krafty way I could mask the area with the dead pixels which sometimes sit right on my actors faces?
I went to the pluginsite and found this plugin:
Visions FX
Fill: Mends holes in images by intelligently filling user-specified regionsIs this the route to go? Is there an alternative fix I’m obviously not aware of? Or am I going to have to live with this “damaged” footage?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Create a track matte or image matte that covers the four pixels. Offset a second instance of the clip. You will have some odd looking footage at times, but quite often, using the value of an adjacent pixel will be correct.
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track matte, geez, why didn’t i think of that. I guess I was hoping a magical plugin would exist where I could clone stamp and voila! problem solved…..you never know these days.
it did work, although not perfect and a load of work to match each frame, its clearly not as painful to watch…
thanks very much for your help…
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