[Frameworks] de-dusting scanned film footage

[Marco Poloni]

Dear frameworkers,

I have another question. This one is specific to de-dusting scanned
film footage (e.g. S-8mm) in a digital workflow (e.g. final cut pro).

Sometimes dust, hair and scratches are detrimental to the visual
impression one tries to achieve. I have tried in the past to remove
hair or other dust manually. This is, extracting the photogram from
FCP, importing it into Photoshop, cleaning the photogram and
re-importing that frame into the slot in the timeline where it was
extracted from. This works in theory but in practice I sometmes ended
up with that one photogram having a visible colour mismatch. I have
not found a way to match the colour space of FCP and Photoshop, but
must admit I haven't tried hard enough.

I recently fiddled with another method. Importing a whole clip into
photoshop. Photoshop CS5 extended can handle time-based images. Then
it's pretty straightforward: locate the photogram and clean it in the
image window as one would with a normal photograph. Then re-export the
clip through Export -> Render Video. I have played a bit with it but
never really tried it for a project.

Does anyone have experience with this, or an even better method to share?

Thanks,
Best,
Marco



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