Remove dust particles from footage

Blur the area with a gaussian blur...thick. Layer the same shot above it, crop it down so that you have something similar showing that you can cover the area with...feather the shot. Say if you have a shot with BLUE sky...layer the footage, crop out everythng but a section of the blue sky and position it over the spot.

Throw a graphic over the spot. But I don't think that is what you want...

Shane

if its in the top corner and doesn't intrude too far into the frame you could, despite incurring a small quality loss enlarge the whole clip to push the dust out of picture.

By repositioning the clip you can reduce the enlargement by half:

ie. if it takes an enlargement of 120% to eradicate the dust use 110% and shift the clip up and across.

Message was edited by: Steve Mizen

Also, CHV-Plugins has a plug called Dirt Remover (and another called Dead Pixel) that will take care of that without having to add a clip on V2.

What about using a letterbox and positioning the video up until the dust spot disappears?

A bit trickier but depends on how much effort you need to expend on making the footage useable:

Follow Shane's recipe and then experiment using blend modes. What you want to do is find a combination of transparency and pixel blending that will make the blurred copy look like it's actually part of the original.

It's a royal pain and, now that re-read this, impossible to describe.

bogiesan

Perhaps you could provide a visual sample? Each problem like this has a different solution... could be simple, or could be a lost cause, depending on what it looks like.

Try this:

http://www.chv-plugins.com/cms/Fx-Script/Repair-collection/Repair-collection.php

I posted that suggestion early this morning, only a few replies before yours.

Yes, I thought i'd send him the link as I use some of their products.

And I'll weigh in to say that you can do the repair work manually (and tediously, of course) using the garbage mattes on v2. Select a section from next to the spot in the frame (if you're in sky, for example) use it as the matte, feather the edges, move the matte on top of your spot. It isn't always possible to do this. It depends on how isolated your spot is.

It looks like the plug in (above) works in this way, approximating the idea of the spot healing brush in Photoshop...taking information from the pixels around it to remove the unwanted information.