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Repairing broken video footage with AVID?
Hey there,
a client just called me. He has 10 Digibeta tapes that were shot on a camera that seems to have a defect: Apparently one of the fields (the upper or lower) looks bad throughout the whole video.
Now my question is, does anyone have experience with that kind of error and is there any plugin for AVID or another software that can repair videofootage like that? Or at least make it look acceptable…Any help is appreciated.
Cheers,
Benny
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2 Replies
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Hi Benny,
I don`t have a solution that will look nice but you could ditch the broken field by either using a 100& motion effect with duplicated fields checked if the broken filed is not the first in your chosen Project (Upper for PAL lower for NTSC). Otherwise you could create a bw mask in e.g. After effects which consists of the correct number of lines (PAL 576) and make the lines (field) you wanna loose black. Then you import this file to your avid using a matte key and apply a masking to your footage to retain the good field.
Here`s a link that might help you.
https://avidscreencast.com/page/5/Hans
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What does the footage look like?
Screen shot?
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