Dust Remover not working

I converted a clip to a DPX file, and tried using the too by dragging around the mark, but nothing happens. Also, I read in the manual there's a brush version. Where do I find that?

Same thing here.

Same here. No ROI cursor appears.

hi,

0) Make sure the clip is a DPX,
1) COLOR TAB, at the bottom left of the window: select DUST REMOVAL
2) Right click on the icon and the window will DUST opened.
3) select eg "draw and clean" + save

ROI.png

4) after the mouse draw a rectangle or other to say what you want "cleanner", etc ...

ROI_2.png

Hope this helps ..

ALSO: be sure that your file are read/write and you have the permission/user coherent...

ALSO: be sure that your file are read/write and you have the permission/user coherent...

I'm on a Mac editing clips off an external drive. How do I do that if that's the problem?

ALSO: be sure that your file are read/write and you have the permission/user coherent...

I'm on a Mac editing clips off an external drive. How do I do that if that's the problem?

notte sure, I'm in a linux most of the time but i found out that if i don't have permission i cannot dust it...

[Dwaine Maggart]

There is an issue on Macs with Retina displays. The correction will be significantly offset from the selected area, so may appear not to be doing anything.

Even if that was the case, I'm editing off an external monitor. Now I do get a message about the read/write permission. The question is, how do I fix that? Is that something I need to do in Da Vinci? And if so, how?

Here's a picture from someone how got the same message

[Peter Chamberlain]

Can u put the clip in the root directory of your main media drive?

[Dwaine Maggart]

Resolve modifies the original source frame with the dust/dirt fix.

Before it does that, it makes a copy of the original source frame.

If you need to use the dirt/dust UNDO function, this backed up frame is copied back to the original source file location.

In your case, Resolve is not able to write the copy of the source frame in that path that is displayed, due to permission issues. Since it can't make a backup copy of the source frame, it won't modify the source frame with the dirt/dust fix.

You'll need to fix the permissions of that displayed path, so that the Resolve app can write to that path. This will need to be done outside of Resolve, either using Finder or from a shell.

The following is a description of where the backup frames get written. You don't want them to be on the Mac System drive anywhere. Peter's suggestion of putting them on a separate media drive would be the correct thing to do. But even then, that volume could have permissions that don't allow Resolve to write to it.

The backup location that the original frames are saved to is in a hidden folder called .resolve_backups and this folder will be placed in the root path of the volume that the DPX source files reside on.

This means that if the source DPX files are on a Mac system drive, in a Users folder, then the .resolve_backups folder will ATTEMPT to be created in the root path of the system drive. And the Resolve app does NOT have permission to write to that location, and you will get an error message when you do a dirt/dust fix on that clip, and the fix will not be done.

If the DPX source files are located in multiple volumes, then the .backup_resolve folder will get created on as many of those volumes as you attempt to do dirt/dust fixes on. And if the Resolve app does not have permission to create the .backup_resolve folder in the root path of those volumes, you'll get an error message when you attempt a dirt/dust fix.

If using an external harddrive that has the original footage, how do I activate the permission to allow it to create a backup location? Can't find anything that tells me how to change the permissions.

If using an external harddrive that has the original footage, how do I activate the permission to allow it to create a backup location? Can't find anything that tells me how to change the permissions.

you might have to do in terminal with the chown command iirc

https://www.google.com/search?q=changing+permissions+with+chown&oq=changing+permission+with+chow&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.12309j0j4&client=ms-android-hms-tmobile-us&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

So this is kinda destructive editing right? Sure, there seems to be a backup of the original frame somewhere, but what if i want to hand off some original footage from the nas, it will contain the modified frames?

Also, why won't resolve handle it like a cached node and work with all codecs? Just cache it somewhere in DPX/EXR/single frame ProRes or some other format?