Dust, specks, and scratches correction.

[Gary Kleiner]

Well, you could export as a frame sequence and touch up the frames individually, but obviously that will take a LOT of time.

I do believe that there is software that is designed to do what you are after (just don’t know what that is). Try poking around on the web.

Gary

[Lee Albright]

Gary,
Thank you for your reply to my question.
However, I am not clear on your answer.
How and where to would I export the frame sequence?
I’m guessing they could be corrected individually in Photoshop, but how to get them there still eludes me.
Once they are corrected, how would I get the frames back into my timeline?
I would appreciate a specific set of instructions for making these corrections.
Again, thank you.
Cordially,
Lee Albright
Albright Films

[Donatello]

NO Vegas cannot get rid of dust – scratches ..
however Vegas might be able to add dust & scratches to other clips so they look more like your newly transferred material ..

[Ted Snow]

What most people do not know is that everytime they run their film through a projector without the film being lubricated, the film gets scratched. I have transferred a lot of 8mm film and not one of my customers knew anything about needing to lubricate their film back when they used to watch it years ago. I have transferred film from the early 50’s that looked good as new but I’ve also done film that was very scratched. I fully edit the film but I don’t even try to mess with the scratches. As Gary said, if you can find a software that will maybe help it that would be your only logical approach. A frame by frame touch up would take endless hours even for one small reel of film.

[Gary Kleiner]

Export: Tools>Scripting> Render Image Sequence.

Import:File>Import>Media> check import media sequence.

Gary

[Larryreavis]

if you are willing to do a frame-by-frame correction, instead of Photoshop, you’ll have better luck with Polaroid’s free Dust and Scratch Removal https://www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/poladsr.html

[Lee Albright]

Gary,
Thank you for your brief explanation.
I managed to get my image sequence into Photoshop and remove a huge dust mark from a frame in the sequence.
That part of the process was relatively easy.
Getting it back into Vegas 6 was not as easy.
Here’s how I did it.
On the timeline, I split the sequence (event) at the frame that had the dust mark.
I then cut out that frame.
Next I imported the corrected frame from my Photoshop file and placed that frame on the timeline between the split.
It worked, but I’m certain there is a more elegant way to get the corrected frame back into Vegas 6.
Help!!!
Thanks again.
Cordially,
Lee Albright
Albright Films

[Lee Albright]

Larry,
Thank you for pointing me to the Polaroid website.
I just downloaded their Dust and Scratch Removal Software and plan on trying it out tomorrow.

If you read my reply to Gary Kleiner’s solution, you’ll see what a time I had getting the corrected frame back into the timeline after I massaged it in Photoshop.
If you have any suggestions as to how I can streamline the process of exporting the faulty image from Vegas 6 and importing the corrected image back into Vegas 6, please. . .let me know.

As for doing these corrections frame by frame, I really don’t mind because the project I am working on (a theatrical feature film teaser) will run just under three minutes.
After transferring the project back to 35mm, the teaser has to look spotless on a fifty-foot theatre screen!!!

P.S. This is only the fourth day I’ve been using Vegas 6, so I know I have a monumental learning curve ahead of me.
Thanks again.
Cordially,
Lee Albright
Albright Films

[Stephen Mann]

You export the whole event into a sequence of jpg images, fix your problem images then import them back into Vegas. Use the import button in the project media and select the button for import images as a sequence (or something like that – my Vegas is busy rendering something right now so I can’t look). You select the first image and Vegas finds the last one.

Steve

[Lee Albright]

Steve,
Thank you for your suggetions regarding my dust and speck problem.
I’m totally lost!!!!!
When I exported a five second sequence that contained frames that had dust and dirt, they wound up in Photoshop as 150 seperate JPEGS.
Finding the frame that had the dust and dirt was next to impossible because of the small size of the thumbnail images.
I was however, able to locate one really large defect and correct it using Photoshop’s clone tool. But when I imported it back into Vegas 6 the single frame image came in as 150 frames.
I’m really stumped.
All I want to do is simply cut out the original dirty frame in my timeline and replace it with the same frame I corrected in Photoshop.
Could you tell me step-by-step how this is accomplished?

So far I’ve found the transition from working with actual film material to ones and zeros to be a daunting process.
I’ve successfully edited a number of films using a 16mm workprint and a guillotine splicer, so replacing frames was simple. But this video editing process is a whole different animal.
Please help!!!
Thank you.
Cordially,
Lee Albright
Albright Films