A nice feature indeed...

I have used masking to hide things.

If you have an image or clip of the same location as the offending object you can place them on a lower timeline and use masking so you see the clean version.

Similarly, you could save a frame grab with the blemish, remove it using photoshop or affinity photo, and place the modified image on a lower timeline and use masking.

Not a general solution, but can work in a pinch.

"Object Removal" from moving scenes is one of the more basic features of Mocha, an advanced tracking software.

Mocha for Vegas plugin is included as part of Vegas Pro 21. In their demo they remove a jeep, so I think a dust spot would be a fairly easy candidate.

"Object Removal" from moving scenes is one of the more basic features of Mocha, an advanced tracking software.

Mocha for Vegas plugin is included as part of Vegas Pro 21.

@mark-y I don't have the Vegas version but I have free adobe plugin version, you don't get the remove module, that is an upsell to the full featured Mocha Pro.

Sensor dust doesn't move so I don't see the point in tracking it. 3d87c4's advice should work.

I haven't used it myself, but I recall a BorisFX BCC new features video years ago which demonstrated how 'Pixel Fixer' could be used to clean-up something like a dead camera sensor pixel or a dust speck. Pixel Fixer is still there in BCC's Image Restoration Unit.

I had a slight finger smudge that I didn't notice when I was shooting. You can see if plainly in the sky when I was panning. But once I panned to a structure, you could not see it.

I used Cookie Cutter and another clip shifted over a bit, so the sky from the lower clip showed in the cookie cutter clip above. Worked like a charm.

Just remembered that PixelPatcher was a free tool that I acquired sometime ago. Apparently it works in V21 since its an OFX plug-in.

Here's a screengrab. I have not or at least I don't remember using it.

If there's any interest, I'll upload it and share.

@wwaag of course!!! Thanks in advance!

Here's the link where it can be downloaded. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/i0zy927nbwp3yyrop1312/PixelPatcher_1.3_Setup.exe?rlkey=ucuyuy0ocpp6js6374p86g1fm&dl=0

Years ago I had a Hi8 camcorder with a dead pixel that showed up as a white dot. Here's what I used to do: duplicate the track; then move the duplicate track a few pixels using track motion, and then create a mask. Worked reasonably well--at least good enough for home videos.

Thank you all for your posts.

@wwaag Thank you for your efforts. I downloaded PixelPatcher plugin. Can you record some videos to show how to use this plugin? I know that there are some situations that there are a few (i.e. more than 2) dustes on sensor on the same video. Can this plugin fix this? Or maybe I should apply three times PixelPatcher?
Can you demostrate a video with using this plugin. I think that many people would be happy of it?

Thank you in advance and thank you for your efforts.

Regards

Marcin

@marcinzm

As I said before, I haven't used this plugin or if I did many years ago, I don't remember. Wish I could be of more help.