Blown Pixels

daamoth wrote on 7/11/2003, 4:29 PM

I shot a wedding using a Canon GL1, which turned out to have three blown pixels (that I didn't notice until afterwards) right in the middle of the screen. How can I remove them? Does anybody have any advice? I tried copying the video track and then doing a picture in picture and then shifting the one track ever to slightly but I can't get close enough to the pixels to pull it off perfectly. Are there any programs that can remove blemishes like this? Is there a Photoshop for video type program. I'm looking at After Effects, would that help at all? Thanks in advance for any answers!

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FuTz wrote on 7/11/2003, 5:00 PM

If it's a white dot that you get, try duplicate your main track.

track 1- your "master"
track 2- your copy; apply slight blur (while soloing the track) til you get rid of the white dots. Then put a cookie filter the thightest you can around the white dots while monitoring both tracks.
Use the "Parent/Child switch on track 2 so what's white on track 1 becomes transparent and lets you track 2 show through.

I hope it'll work...

Another possibility: replacing the white dot by a black dot (which is less noticeable). You just create a tiny black dot with a painting program on a transparent background then put it on the top track on your timeline and use Pan/Crop toll to relocate this black dot over the white dot on inferior track.