Speck of dust left spot on video

rknauf wrote on 5/12/2003, 8:28 AM

I had a small speck of something on the lens while I was filming the other night. This left me with a 1 or 2 pixel spot on the film. I only noticed the speck after burning it to DVD and viewing it on a 43" TV. Is there anything I can do to mask this spot on the screen.

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BillyBoy wrote on 5/12/2003, 11:13 AM

You can, but if there is a lot of changes in your video it can get to be a lot of work. Since it is so small, maybe using the cookie cutter on a overlay track, using a blur. The 'work' part will be setting keyframes and changing the color constantly as you work through the video.

Without seeing it I can only guess, sounds more like something YOU notice because now that you know its there, you actually look for it. Others may not see it, or if they do, not really be bugged by it.You did say it was only a pixel or two in size.

riredale wrote on 5/12/2003, 12:35 PM

If you want to go outside the Vegas program, you could do it in VirtualDub, using a plugin filter like this one:

http://konstant.freeshell.org/

I've never tried it myself, but the filter demo looks pretty impressive.