kyanmagic wrote:I'm shooting products on black plexiglass.
Every tiny bit of dust and debris shows up. Is there an easy fix in Davinci? Some AI plugin that solves this issue?
For additional points, if anyone has any suggestions of how to keep plexiglass dust/dirt/hair free that would be great too for future reference.
Video reference of a product from today :
I don't know from personal experience, but friend tells me there are various anti dust spray solutions that will repeal dust from surfaces for a short time, might be ideal to do before the shoot. I don't know about the brands in North America, I'm from Europe.
It depends on the shot. But you have several options.
In the Resolve Studio version there is a category of plus ins called "revival". This category consists of plugins that let you fix common technical, damage, and quality problems that bedevil programs being finished, remastered, or restored.
Here is my attempt with: Automatic Dirt Removal (Studio Version Only)
The Automatic Dirt Removal plugin uses optical flow technology to target and repair temporally unstable bits of dust, dirt, hair, tape hits, and other unwanted artifacts that last for one or two frames and then disappear. All repairs are made while maintaining structurally consistent detail in the underlying frame, resulting in a high quality restoration of the image. Fortunately, despite its sophistication, this is a relatively easy plugin to use; just drop the plugin on a shot, adjust the parameters for the best results, and watch it go.
It will get rid of the dust easily, but some larger dust particles can be a problem because to get rid of them you have to also attack some of the edges of the product. This leaves you with two options that are pretty quick. Run the plug in over everything, and than use loose garbage masks to protect the product itself. Since the plexiglass is dark and more or less featureless, it should be fast enough to do that.
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Another tool that is great if you have static shots where there is no camera movement.
Dust Buster (Studio Version Only)
This plugin is also designed to eliminate dust, dirt, and other imperfections and artifacts from clips, but it does so only with user guidance, for clips where the Automatic Dirt Removal plugin yields unsatisfactory results. This guidance consists of moving through the clip frame-by-frame and drawing boxes around imperfections you want to eliminate. Once you’ve drawn a box, the offending imperfection is auto-magically eliminated in the most seamless way possible. This works well for dirt and dust, but it also works for really big stains and blotches, as seen below.
So you can either do it frame by frame manually or if its a static shot, you just draw it over an area where the dust spot is.
Third party tools might be Neat Video Noise Reduction which just Dust and Scratches removal feature, but it might have the same problem with very large dust where it might attack product elements as well. So again you probably would have to mask it, still a fast way.
You can try TopazVideoAI maybe, but I'm not sure how it deals with dust. You can also check out Filmworkz DVO OFX Performance Pack v1.5. Its what Hollywood uses for lot of restoration. It has some tools that can help.