Hugh Macdonald
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It is because of trying AE with filtering and clone stamp and finding it way too ugly and difficult that I went to Vegas. This clip, though short, has one main scratch, but in one spot 3 scratches show up, and multiple little ones.
Automatic methods I’ve read about (from computer department journals) find and track the scratches better than I could do with cloning or manually a frame at a time. By looking for long, thin, vertical edges it tracks the location of the scratch beautifully.
AE was very difficult and tracked well only if the scratch was deep and strong. Unfortunately, at one spot, the eyes of the subject are in the scratch, so a good method is required. The computerized method can use multiple frames to help detect the scratch.
Hughie -
No, they are the most common type of scratch, a line (sometimes 2 or 3 lines) within the middle 60%, avoiding the edge since the sprockets give better support there. I used a convolution filter to detect the vertical line but you need one that detects a LONG vertical line.
Hugh -
It seems to me there should be some film oriented scratch remover… anybody know of one? I’ve heard of wavelet based, Bayesian based, but so far I can’t find a plug in or a practical method.
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I tried it and while it smoothed out the noise nicely, it did not remove the vertical scratches unless it posterized. The human interface for these plug ins is not very smart — circular knob type settings are a pain. Cute but not practical.
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Thanks, good to have confirmation that it is supposed to work the same. I thought it was some new setting or “feature.” Mine must be broken, I’ll try to reinstall.
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Thanks. I had tried that but I needed to restart before it took effect — fooled me.
However, hope Vegas in future allows it to be settable as the darker background helps make the buttons and current state more obvious. Unfortunately, it is too dark and makes the text hard to read. If I could set it it would be lighter but not as light as legacy.
Thanks