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Posted by blacklight on 12/16/06 23:18
Thanks for reply Martin. I had been afraid of something like that -
fiddling about with almost 2000 frames. Since the hair is static I had
hoped there might be something that would copy the action 2000 times
once frame 1 was done.
What misery!
Martin Heffels wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:39:56 +0000, Spex <No.spam@ta.com> wrote:
>
> >blacklight wrote:
> >> The short nature clips on our site rent-a-cloud.com are first shot on
> >> film. Then we transfer them to avi for post-production using Sony's
> >> Vegas 5. We just come back from a shoot in Central Australia, and one
> >> roll of film shows a hair in the gate. Question: is there any software
> >> which can remove that hair out of the image (the hair is static)?
> >> Thanks for answer.
> >>
> >Any compositing package be that Shake, combustion, AE will have a clone
> >tool. Use the clone tool to copy adjacent pixels over the hair.
>
> There is also proprietary software around, but of course you would have to
> wait for that to hit the market.
>
> >If the hair is absolutely static it will be a simple job if it moves
> >around slightly more work but not impossible.
>
> If the hair is changing shape, you could use a tracking mask
>
> >In post production companies "dust busting" is usually given to the work
> >experience person due to its tedious nature of the task.
>
> :-))
>
> Now my question is, wht colour is the hair, white or black? If it's black,
> it means it happened at the shoot (so, fire the 1st AC ;-) ). If it's
> white, it happened during the telecine, so you can request the post-house
> for a new telecine (and ask them to fire the one who did it first ;-) ).
>
> cheers
>
> -martin-
> --
Thanks again Martin. The hair is black. Unfortunately, the 1st AC is
Me!
Klaus
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