FCP video dropouts

[Ed Dooley]

If I don’t have many of them, I do it by removing the offending frame and replacing it with the
previous or next frame. Looks good. If there’s a lot I, well…. I do the same thing.
Ed

[David Roth weiss]

[Ed] “I do it by removing the offending frame and replacing it with the
previous or next frame.”

Yikes, that’s a scary thought Ed. You mustn’t have much movement in your movies. May I suggest that you don’t do this when moving to HD, when you see that duplicated frame at six times the resolution you’re presently viewing at it may shock you.

Cloning part of a frame from the next or previous frame is the way this is normally done, and there’s a huge difference. The simple way to do this right in FCP is to duplicate a few frames of your bad video and place that on the video track directly below. Now, slide that one frame ahead, or one frame back depending on the best good frame. Now place an oval shaped mask on the top layer and move and size it until it covers your dropout and shows through the top layer revealing the same section of the frame from the good video below without the dropout. Then, place a softedge on the mask and adjust until you’re happy. There are plugins available that do this more easily, and this is certainly quite easiliy accomplished in both AE and Combustion, but its right there in FCP too.

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[Martin Baker]

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[Ed Dooley]

Scary thought? LOL! I just finished a one-hour documentary shot on Beta, with a half-dozen 1-frame drop outs that I removed
exactly as I described, and I challenge anyone to pick them out. At least one of them was on a frame during a push, and it’s
completely invisible. I’m not saying that it’s any substitute for a good filter, but it’s many times faster (and did I say virtually
invisible) than the method you suggest. Pulling one frame out and replacing with the adjacent frame, and it only lasting 1/30th
of a second, is consistent with Max Wertheimer’s Experimental Studies on the Study of Motion (and all that Beta Movement and Pi
Phenomenon mumbo jumbo). 🙂
Your approach saves more of the undamaged part of the frame, but why spend all that time for a result that doesn’t appear any better to a viewer.
In other words, *not* a huge difference!
So, replace a whole frame, a part of a frame, or let a filter do it for you. Easy to do it my way to see if it works for you, easy, but
much more time-consuming to do it David’s way and compare, and probably easiest to buy a filter.
Ed

[David Roth Weiss] “[Ed] “I do it by removing the offending frame and replacing it with the
previous or next frame.”

Yikes, that’s a scary thought Ed. You mustn’t have much movement in your movies. May I suggest that you don’t do this when moving to HD, when you see that duplicated frame at six times the resolution you’re presently viewing at it may shock you.

Cloning part of a frame from the next or previous frame is the way this is normally done, and there’s a huge difference. The simple way to do this right in FCP is to duplicate a few frames of your bad video and place that on the video track directly below. Now, slide that one frame ahead, or one frame back depending on the best good frame. Now place an oval shaped mask on the top layer and move and size it until it covers your dropout and shows through the top layer revealing the same section of the frame from the good video below without the dropout. Then, place a softedge on the mask and adjust until you’re happy. There are plugins available that do this more easily, and this is certainly quite easiliy accomplished in both AE and Combustion, but its right there in FCP too.”