Hair Removel
by Ashish Sah
on
Sep 17, 2008 at 7:40:07 pm
i had transfered my 16mm film to BETA CAM SP..i got lot of hair, grains and dust..can it possible to remove thick hair, grains and dust. Can we increase the quality of that video?
Can it possb. in AE or FCP?
Re: Hair Removel by Dave LaRonde on Sep 17, 2008 at 9:43:55 pm
Yes, it can be done in After Effects. However, this is like saying that you can build a piece of fine furniture using only a Swiss Army Knife: yes, you can do it, but do you really want to try it?
Considering the amount of work and TIME it would take -- and AE is much better for this task, incidentally -- you may be better off vilifying your vendor for the abysmal quality of his work and DEMANDING that the film be transferred again! There is no excuse for such shoddy work!
Or you can simply pay for another transfer. With cleaned film this time, please. You'll still be better off.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: Hair Removel by Chris Wright on Sep 17, 2008 at 10:49:51 pm
Most professional film labs will give you a free answer print if this happens. If for some reason, you can't get another print or can't afford a new one, removing some of the offending blockage is possible; however, most of the good After Effects plugins themselves can cost money such as red giant film fix and F_DirtRemoval in Autodesk Discreet. There are free denoising and degraining filters and AE's cc wire removal in multiple layers has been known to work in a pinch.
