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dead pixel
I have a lot of footage recorded on digibetacamcorder whit a dead pixel on the CCD. I have tried to remove it the “Scratch Removal”, but I can’t make I work. When I used Final Cut Pro in my studio there was a plug-in from “digital Heaven” that could do that – “Scratch Removal
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Morten,
Scratch removal is designed to fix only one bad frame at a time. I would try to use a picture-in-picture (or 3D warp) to shift the picture slightly and crop it down to the smallest possible size to cover only the bad pixel.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Yeah, I think scratch removal takes the values from the frame prior to the damaged one, so if the dead pixel is in the same place, it can’t be corrected with scratch removal. I guess what I would try is to layer the same image/sequence underneath, shift the whole thing down by a pixel or two, and use the paint effect to expose the second layer underneath.
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So that’s not entirely true. The Scratch Removal Effect in MC 7 and beyond can definitely handle dead pixels quite well. If you make sure you’ve chosen “relative” as your offset in the effects editor under “scratch” setting, you can simply draw a shape (rectangle does the trick) next to the dead pixel and then drag that shape over the blemished area and it basically works like the Clone Stamp Tool in photoshop. Haven’t had any problems so far — but then again, I’m working with pretty low-light, shadowy footage.
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