Vertical scratch repair in opening titles

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yairisan

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Vertical scratch repair in opening titles

PostTue Sep 27, 2022 1:16 am

Can anyone give me some pointers as to how to go about removing the vertical scratch(es) from the footage in the following link?



Automatic dirt removal won't touch it, so I'm wondering how else this could be done. I'm using Davinci 18 with RTX 2060 Super GPU - reasonable setup, though nothing stellar.

Thanks for any help!
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Re: Vertical scratch repair in opening titles

PostTue Sep 27, 2022 3:32 am

i have a couple of scratch repair OFX that i sometimes use, but they dont work all that well
i'd probbaly send that off to a restoration firm
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Re: Vertical scratch repair in opening titles

PostTue Sep 27, 2022 3:52 am

With motion in the image under the title, there may be not much can be done short of manually redrawing the image frame by frame in photoshop or similar. As a quick bandaid, you could try stacking two layers of partial transparency over a solid layer, one layer's image moved towards left and the other towards right to reduce the intensity of the scratch. The collateral damage will be to broaden the scratch, smear the background image horizontally and introduce side edge borders which will require you to slightly enlarge the image to conceal the borders.
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Re: Vertical scratch repair in opening titles

PostTue Sep 27, 2022 3:56 am

robert Hart wrote:With motion in the image under the title, there may be not much can be done short of manually redrawing the image frame by frame in photoshop or similar. As a quick bandaid, you could try stacking two layers of partial transparency over a solid layer, one layer's image moved towards left and the other towards right to reduce the intensity of the scratch. The collateral damage will be to broaden the scratch, smear the background image horizontally and introduce side edge borders which will require you to slightly enlarge the image to conceal the borders.


That's an interesting approach. I'll give this a try.

Thanks so much.
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Re: Vertical scratch repair in opening titles

PostTue Sep 27, 2022 3:57 am

Dermot Shane wrote:i have a couple of scratch repair OFX that i sometimes use, but they dont work all that well
i'd probbaly send that off to a restoration firm


OK, thanks for the input!

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