Dead pixels

[Graham Bernard]

Nasty . . . .

When you say: “I tried remapping them and re-masking them but it takes way too much work and doesn’t look good enough.” Just how are you doing this?

3 dead pixies is not good – I Agree. When I had this, thankfully it was only 1, and then off to the Canon E.R. When you do the remapping do you use 2 tracks OR do you use 4 tracks, one for each pixel PLUS 1 for the underlying footage?

If you want to post a “still” out of the offending footage I’ll have a go? If I get anywhere I’ll send you the VEG file. What version of Vegas you working?

Grazie

[D. Eric franks]

Is it literally 3 dead pixels in the final footage or 3 dead pixels on the CCDs (which might result in bigger blocks of deadness in the final footage due to combining the three sensors, the A/D conversion, post-processor-processing and finally encoding to DV25)?

If it is literally 3 dead pixels, try:
(1) Duplicate the track.
(2) Create your 3 separate 1 pixel masks on the upper track.
(3) Invert the mask so you now have three transparent pixels showing through to the lower track.
(4) Use the Track Motion tool to pop the lower track over a pixel (left, right, up, down – whatever looks best).

This will work for slightly larger areas too, I suppose, up to some limit.

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[Bryan Spector]

Doesn’t look clean enough when I mask, sometimes a pixel will look out of place, and its 3 pixels on the final footage, sometimes the area is pretty big.

Also, yes I am making one track for each pixel. The thing is, yes I can do this and it will turn out good, but I have literally 3 to 7 hours of footage I need to do this to for multiple projects. I guess my camera is broken. Do you see how much work is involved to get it perfect? This is why I’m asking, is there any other software I can use?

I’m using Vegas 8 Pro I believe but the point is I want to learn how to fix this for future edits so I thank you for help but I want to try this on my own computer first.

[John Gleason]

I have to add that a friend has the same problem. He uses FCP and I could not figure a way to solve the problem. I imported the footage into After effects and tried a variety of things to no effect.

Dublicated layer, masked, applied curves to the pixels, color correction, and made it Darken in layer blending. FAIL.

Used clone stamp tool. This works really great when the image isn’t moving much and the colors are simple. Otherwise it just creates a ghosting defect when the image is moving. I imagine this would be a pretty good bet if you manually clone stamped the pixels in each shot. Mostly FAIL

The only real solution I can think of is to just go with it. Add a ton more “broken pixel” dots to your project and turn it into a new style. Who knows, maybe it will catch on?

If anyone comes up a good solution I’ve love to hear it as well.