Posted by Martin Heffels on 12/15/06 08:53

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-
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