I've got some old footage that is pretty valuable (it's probably the smallest whale shark ever shot) but unfortunately there were a couple of pieces of dirt on the inside of my housing's port and they show up badly.
I have repaired some of the footage with the Delogo plugin for VirtualDub, and I have repaired some in Vegas by cutting a small bezier hole in the footage, copying the same video to a lower track, moving it a few pixels, and letting it show through the upper layer.
But there are hundreds, probably thousands of frames that can only be repaired manually, frame by frame. I have rendered an image sequence of interlaced png files in Vegas and now we're about to start repairing the frames.
I would like to know from anyone experienced in Photoshop, what would be the best tool/method to do this? Just use say a 50% opacity brush and sample nearby color with the eyedropper and paint in the repair? Or are there cleverer "healing" tools that might come in useful? I don't use Photoshop very often and there are lots of commands that I never use. But I want to get a fast and effective method going as there are so many frames.
Typical frame is shown below, but of course the area of dirt moves around all over the shark, blue water and clouds.
Thanks!
[IMG=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/bubblevision/whale-shark-repair-1.jpg]
I have repaired some of the footage with the Delogo plugin for VirtualDub, and I have repaired some in Vegas by cutting a small bezier hole in the footage, copying the same video to a lower track, moving it a few pixels, and letting it show through the upper layer.
But there are hundreds, probably thousands of frames that can only be repaired manually, frame by frame. I have rendered an image sequence of interlaced png files in Vegas and now we're about to start repairing the frames.
I would like to know from anyone experienced in Photoshop, what would be the best tool/method to do this? Just use say a 50% opacity brush and sample nearby color with the eyedropper and paint in the repair? Or are there cleverer "healing" tools that might come in useful? I don't use Photoshop very often and there are lots of commands that I never use. But I want to get a fast and effective method going as there are so many frames.
Typical frame is shown below, but of course the area of dirt moves around all over the shark, blue water and clouds.
Thanks!
[IMG=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/bubblevision/whale-shark-repair-1.jpg]