WHAT IS THE BEST TOOL FOR DUSTBUSTING AND SCRATCH REMOVAL ?

[wolf]

i was wondering what workflow/sparks … you guys use for dust busting on
flame ? i was running into some problems by doing a reveal paint with a one
frame offset on the background clip. the camera was panning so fast that the
difference in the offset frame was revealing an area that did not match the
color of my dust spot area. i could of course spend alot of time tracking the
offset background to stabilize it.

any help is appreciated

wolf

[luc]

hello

This year you have a lot of choice in automated dustbusting. Do automated first and use vector based paint.

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for the flame you can try colorfront stardust.
http://www.colorfront.com/index.php3?n=21

In combustion the vector based paint module is a great tool and you can save all your work whitout render. You have also great plugin like:
– revisionFx ReFill
– redgiant Composite Wizard Wire Rig Zapper and matte tools.

for after effect you have filmfix from redgiant “The Orphanage”
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/filmfix.html

for a standalone solution diamant film restoration
http://www.hs-art.com/

You have also cinecure from imagica
http://www.imagica-la.com/Cinecure/

and finaly discreet lustre Assistant Station.
http://www4.discreet.com/lustre/lustre.php?id=202

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As i have said before, you have a lot of choice. On paper diamant look very nice, but the less expansive is filmfix i think. It depend of your type of work. SD, 2K, 8 or 10 to 16…

Chears

luke

[majik]

To be honest wolf, you’d be better off in a purely manual system as its generally a lot quicker.

Automated systems have to be badysat quite a bit and the results can sometimes need fixing themselves due to motion artifacts. The automated systems work better in a ‘low pass’ mode where all they remove is low level sparkle as opposed to complex scratches and emulsion blobs. Once this low level pass is done you can hand it off to your paint department to get the big guys.

If you’ve got FFI you’re already sitting in front a powerful dustbusting tool.

[Alexander Marthin]

You don’t have to stabilize… instead of “Reveal” you just use “Recursive Clone” (I think thats what its called). Then you can offset and clone from your back. Use F1 and F2 hotkeys to quickly switch between your front and your back. That way it is easier to align your brush. (Hope this makes sense).

By the way, we have had some good results using Furnace2 for Shake. However it is a very slow process (approx 11 sec per frame in 2k on a dual 2 ghz mac). It is much quicker to do it manually.
The advantage of using Furnace is that you can make it render at nights and then let an operator look though it afterwards.

Just for the record, we have had the chance to compare the Diamant from HS-ART to Furnace2, and Furnace2 was a clear winner.

Just my 2 cents,
Alex

[majik]

What is also promising is the new film scanner from Arri, Arriscan. It not only scans RGB but generates an almost alpha like Infra-Red pass. This can be used to manually locate dust or can be fed into a automated dust busting program as reference.

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