Da Vinci Resolve dust removal

[Mike Most]

Dust busing in any software is frame by frame, because dust, by definition, is only going to appear on one film frame. Any automation is simply processing multiple frames, one by one, and with no correlation between them.

[Jake Blackstone]

I think the confusion here is with “fully manually”” and “frame by frame”. As correctly pointed out by Mike, dust is usually present on a single frame, so it is by definition is “frame by frame” operation. But the process can be somewhat automated, where, for example, the software, like PF Clean can help to identify dust, scratches, blemishes. Then the user have a choice to either “trust” the software algorithms in identifying those problem areas and let it do the dust and scratch removal in fully automatic mode or do it in semi-automatic mode, where user have to accept those areas, identified by the software as a problem areas first. As there is no software that is perfect in interpreting what is a good image and what needs to be removed, there is no substitution to a good pair of eyes, so it is obviously better to do it in “fully manually”” or, if available, use the semi-automatic mode.