Posted by Specs on 03/31/06 18:53

I once sorted out such a problem.

Thing was it was only a few seconds of material. I am a compositor by trade
and a s such used Shake and a "reveal" brush and motion blur to copy
adjacent frame sections into dropped out areas. The repair was invisible
and was away from the area of interest anyway which helped. It can be time
consuming but sometimes its the only way.

What you have described is the stuff of nightmares that I'm sure we've all
had.

Hope you can salvage something.....

Is there any way you could edit the problem out. For example cropping the
dropouts away in a PiP montage sequence a la 24. A cliche!

"Steve Guidry" <steveguidryremovethis@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Here's the disclaimer : I'm not an editor. I'm the guy that recorded the
> tapes that have the problem below . . .
>
>
> It was a live event. It's over. There is no chance for a re-do. I've
got
> to find a way to fix this or give most/all of the client's money back.
The
> client will be doing the edit himself.
>
> The last beta deck was down, and the others were on other jobs. So, we
> recorded the switched master to a JVC BR-DV6000 DV deck. Turns out that
> there was a head clog, and the master tapes from both performances have
> dropouts. We've tried it on several decks, and I'm convinced that the
> problem is on the tape, and that it's not a playback issue. The dropouts
> manifest themselves in three different areas on the screen where pixilated
> blocks appear and disappear. It's moving video, so a cut/paste from a
> nearby region won't easily hide it.
>
> Basically, I think the plug-in should detect the dropout, and then freeze
> the frame immediately before it and hold it until the video is good again.
> It should have the ability to do a mask (3 of them in one-pass, while
we're
> wishing . . .) so that just the affected area gets frozen.
>
> Oh yeah . . . The editor will be using Premiere Pro.
>
> Help me Obi-one Kanobe. You're my only hope . . .
>
>
> --
> Steve Guidry
> Video Works, Inc.
> Live events for TV and Video
> www.videoworksinc.com
> 800.844.4404
>
>

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