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- Real Name: John Purlia
I'm using the Automatic Dirt Removal plug-in to help clean-up archival footage from the 1930's. The plug-in does a fairly amazing job of removing dirt and debris from these aging 8mm and 16mm films, but in doing so I've noticed some fairly odd behavior, and was hoping to get some input from others on "best practices" for using Automatic Dirt Removal. These films have a fairly
Some things I've noticed:
Some questions:
Thanks! I'm only on my first week with Resolve Studio and I'm finding the product to be incredibly useful!
Some things I've noticed:
- On clips with fast motions, for example a football game, objects that are not dirt often get mistaken for dirt and are removed or distorted. (Though it is kind of funny to see a guy run down the field and see his legs disappear) As these clips run at slow frame rates (16 fps for 8mm), the difference from frame to frame can be fairly significant, leading to a lot of normal motion being mistaken as "dirt".
The first frame of a clip is often aggressively processed and appears to be kind of blended with the last frame of the previous clip.
Clips to which the effect has been applied look soft, losing quite a bit of detail. I'm not sure if this is because the clips are inherently grainy and tend to have a lot of noise (which I correct in a subsequent node).
Some questions:
- Where do folks typically place Auto Dirt Removal in the node chain? I've been using it first, but I'm beginning to think it may be better to place it last, after I've applied noise reduction, as this may smooth out objects that are sometimes seen by the algorithm as dirt.
Any idea how to avoid the problem I've seen with the first frame of a clip?
What does the Global Bend setting do? It does not appear to be discussed in the manual.
Any other tips?
Thanks! I'm only on my first week with Resolve Studio and I'm finding the product to be incredibly useful!