Posted by Spex on 12/15/06 10:06

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.

Yeah you are right, PixelFarm has PFClean a dustbusting app that costs a
pretty penny. http://www.thepixelfarm.co.uk/products/products.aspx?PID=8

I didn't mention it because of the cost! :)

>
>> 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-
Good point, if it happened during telecine then get 'em to do it again
but this time properly!

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