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8 Responses to this post
September 11, 2012 at 9:30 pm |
a neat solution to an old problem, cheers
September 14, 2012 at 5:40 pm |
Thanks Richard, I’m so glad you found it useful, cheers
September 15, 2012 at 7:10 am |
Very cool technique for dealing with those large dust smudges.
For smaller marks like sensor dust we developed a procedural technique that keeps you in Premiere and After Effects. You can check it out here: http://youtu.be/umEw_htyH-A
Thanks!
September 15, 2012 at 5:40 pm |
Thanks Russel
September 22, 2012 at 3:36 am |
Pretty sneaky sis.
Why don’t they make this a tool in AE??
Good tip.
Thanks.
Jim
September 22, 2012 at 6:28 pm |
Thanks James! I would LOVE to have the Healing Brush in AE but TBH it makes more sense to do this in PS and Bridge as painting on frames in AE is a bit of a PIA and I reckon would be much slower than using the batch processor. Thanks for your comments.
September 24, 2012 at 12:14 am |
Does that work when the scene has changed ? Does the healing brush sample from the new scene and not the first frame sample info?
September 25, 2012 at 7:03 am |
Yes, it works on a frame by frame basis, new info on each frame.
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