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    Massive Drop Outs

    Posted by Mike C. on May 4, 2005 at 2:53 pm

    hi all,

    looking for a bit of advice here. i’m working on some footage from 1971 that originally came off 2 inch and was converted to D3 then Beta. lucky me, i get to work off the betas! anyway, it’s a 4 minute segment and there is a ton of drop outs, varying each field. yesterday i spent 8 hours correcting exactly 10 seconds of it. i’m just wondering if i am being as efficent as possible. i’m on a symphony version 4.0 with boris and sapphire. basically, i have been using the scratch removal tool, which is driving me to near suicide. i realize that there is no way to make this stuff perfect without spending a ton of time on it. i’m just searching for some sort of compromise. any advice would be greatly, greatly appreciated.

    thanks.
    mike c.

    Bill Stephan replied 21 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Carl Amoscato

    May 4, 2005 at 3:27 pm

    I know a quick and dirty way to fix dropouts which may work depending on how pretty you want your end result to be. Also, this only works on frames with portions dropped out and portions that are still good. If you’ve lost entire frames, this won’t help.

    Edit the frame before the frame with the dropout onto V2 above the frame with the dropout. Add a picture-in-picture effect to the frame on V2, scale it to 100%, and crop the picture-in-picture to show the good portion of the frame on V1 while covering the portion with the dropout. (You can also try it with the frame after the dropout covering the bad frame if the frame before doesn’t work.)

    On shots with little movement this works really well. On shots with lots of movement, it works less well.

    good luck,
    Carl

  • Mike C.

    May 4, 2005 at 3:35 pm

    thanks carl,

    yeah, i’ve been messing with this option a bit myself. unfortunately, there is alot of movement as this is a broadway piece. even more unfortunately, there is no good video! ahhhhh!!!

    thanks again

  • Bill Stephan

    May 4, 2005 at 4:22 pm

    But that is precisely what the scratch removal tool is doing — you are painting using a previous or subsequent frame as the source for the patch. I think it is less tedious to use the scratch removal tool.

    Bill Stephan
    Senior Editor/DVD Author
    USA Studios
    New York City

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