OT.. Lost pixel correction in post??

LongTallTexan wrote on 12/13/2004, 12:50 PM

Kind of off topic but a bummer of a situation I have to deal with now. I have a Sony VX2000 that has seemingly dropped a pixel. When I shoot I have a blue pixel in the same part of the screen. I was hoping there was a way of correcting this in post maby blurring that exact spot or something of that nature. Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.

L.T.

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nickle wrote on 12/13/2004, 1:37 PM

You can select the cookie cutter, size it to the blue area, use the eydropper to find the surrounding color that you want and then adjust the border and feather sliders to cover it.

Then use keyframes to follow through.

Depending of course on what your situation is this is fairly easy.

chaboud wrote on 12/13/2004, 2:01 PM

If you want the pixel replacement to be completely automatic, you could go with a couple of routes:

1. Use a median before your cookie-cutter replacement on an overlay of the same media. This will replace only the dead pixel with the median of itself and its surrounding pixels (likely not the blued pixel). This works very well but can be slow to render. You can pre-render a post-median version of your file and even create a cookie-cutter preset.

2. Using the same media, create an overlay that is shifted slightly to one side (or vertically) before the cookie-cutter. This will replace the dead pixel with one of its neighbors, but may cause clean edges to look notched.

LongTallTexan wrote on 12/13/2004, 3:17 PM

Thanks for the info. I tried the cookie cutter over the same media sligthly shifted to the right and I cant even tell it's there. Now hopefully I can fix the problem with the camera soon, but this is a nice fix.

L.T.