[Jcorkum]

The resolution in case anyone with the same problem comes a searchin’:

The cookie-cutter method was impossible to use in my case as the pixelation was just too random and intense at points (there were patches of up to a second or so). But, I was finally able to get my hands on another camera (Canon; the original importing camera was a Sony), and lo and behold it worked perfectly! All footage was captured without a single instance of pixelation. Thanks to all for the help.

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[Don Bloom] “If you have Excalibur version 5 it also has a FIX BAD FRAME script that might be able to work for this.”

Thanks Don, I’ll take a look at this. I figured with Vegas’s scripting power there was something like this out there.

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[Gary Kleiner]
“How big an area do you have to cover?”

Thanks Gary. It’s a column approximately 1/10th the width of the entire frame. The pixelation occurs mostly at the middle to upper part of the column, and seems random as to when it decides to show up.

“If it’s small, put the same media on the track below, then cut out the section with the cookie cutter using a soft edge on the original track. Shift the copy below using track motion by a few pixels so that the hole is now filled with the adjoining area.”

I’ll try that tomorrow. I’m assuming there can be *no* movement in the scene whatsoever for this to look natural? Unfortunately there are parts of the footage where the camera was handheld.