New Frame Replacer is great

The new Frame Replacer effect is really great for removing camera flashes.

Wow, that's better than I expected.

Very cool, thanks for demonstrating it!

Available in Fusion too, which is great. Of course in Fusion it could also be done manually, but if there's some AI black magic (ho ho) in there it'll be interesting to compare the difference.

Of course in Fusion it could also be done manually

Some time ago I created Fusion macro for automatic photo flash removal but unfortunately probe modifier is still broken.

New Frame Replacer works very similiar to Repair Frame node in Fusion but is real time.

Some time ago I do it Fusion macro for automatic photo flash removal but unfortunately probe modifier is still broken.

I've been using Probe in 17.2.2 and it seems to be mostly fixed now. Certainly working a ton better than it was before. I did get it to crash repeatedly in one specific scenario: referencing the probe in an expression on a Dissolve's Mix parameter. But other expressions seemed to work fine.

Have you tested Probe in 17.2.2 or 17.3?

New Frame Replacer works very similiar to Repair Frame node in Fusion but is real time.

Yeah it's very cool.

Have you tested Probe in 17.2.2 or 17.3?

Not yet, I will try.

Very nice! I was furious when the industry switched over to single-chip CMOS. Those half-frame flashes were very unprofessional.

There are CMOS sensors that do full frame readout, it isn’t inherent to CMOS. If CCDs were so great they would be used in cinema cams but they aren’t.

Yes, there are Global Shutter CMOS. But it's rare.

My world is more prosumer than cinema. Moving from 3 CCD DV cameras to Rolling Shutter HD CMOS was...a mixed blessing.

Thanks for this!
I will have so much use for it.
Cutting single frames with glitches out was a pain!


I wish BMD had videos dedicated to these new things (and bug fixe) like Boris FX does.

@Eryk Rogozinski, thank you - nice demo.

Very nice! I was furious when the industry switched over to single-chip CMOS. Those half-frame flashes were very unprofessional.

My feelings exactly. I come from the CCD school but never paid too much attention to rolling shutter artifacts on CMOS sensors until one day when I was editing my cousin's wedding video, and the part where she threw the flower bouquet looked like she got struck by a lighting, especially in slow motion.

Very nice! I was furious when the industry switched over to single-chip CMOS. Those half-frame flashes were very unprofessional.

We fix the half-frame flashes in everything we do, basically extending the flash to the full-frame. Generally, the clients like it. A lot of times, I wish they'd just pantomime the flashes on set and let us insert the "flash-frame effect" in post, because that definitely won't have any CMOS problems.

So cool！

I wish they'd just pantomime the flashes on set

Not really an option for event work with a photographer taking stills of that same event.

Just reshoot, I’ve heard it helps

Does anyone know of a way (script or plugin) to automatically detect duplicate frames and set a keyframe in Frame Replacer. There are FrameRestorer and Duplicate Frame Detector for After Effects, and they work but they are incredibly slow. I know ffmpeg can detect the frames but then how do I get that info into Frame Replacer?

Background: we requested to restore a dozen UHD HDR recordings of ± 3 hours each that have duplicate frames in due to a some tech issue that duplicates te previous frame when a signal is missing.

If CCDs were so great they would be used in cinema cams but they aren’t.

I thought that the move to CMOS was/is mostly because it's a lot cheaper to engineer and produce compared to CCD. Not the quality per se.

Apart from the inherent problems of CCD in general, it would be extremely costly to make large sensors.

I have used the Frame Replacer for my recent project and it worked great!
But now it does not work any more. I tried everything, restarting the program, restarting my computer, putting the clips into a new timeline, putting the clips into a new project. It does not work.
Does anyone has an Idea how to fix that?
My deadline of this Project ist tomorrow

Edit: I solved the Problem!

...and how did you solve the problem?