My Buddy has a podcast which he just films via a live stream. However, there’s a lens speck that goes over the entire 45 minute segment. Is there a quick fix to remove without having a ton of key frames? I’m trying to do him a favor and not sure if there is an overall quick fix for this?
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It depends. Can you post it privately?
Sight-unseen id say cut a matte and do a pixel spread “interpolate” inward and mix that over. It won’t fix it outright, but it could lessen the visual impact.
maybe a matchbox: A2Beauty with a fix size value of about 40? with a few other techniques as required.
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Front Source.
A2Beauty.
Median.
Dollface
Infill Blur
Pixel Spread
ooh!!! Take that rascal into Silhouette or Silhouette Paint and do a single recursive clone in Detail mode.
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Thanks, guys. I’m going to look into now, but thanks for all the feedback!
Unfortunately, I don’t have Silhouette or Sil Paint. I’m starting to think that it is a great investment.
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Silhouette is brilliant. Watch out for sales during NAB or IBC. Twice a year they have good sales. Last one was 25% off their entire suite, which means for about $1,000 you can get everything they have for a year.
You could set up an image sequence in photoshop and do a content aware patch. (I’m assuming that if it is a lens speck, it stays in one place. At 45 minutes, it may take a long time, but the results are probably going to be good. I used this process for a lens flare a couple of weeks ago, although it was only a couple of seconds long. It would be interesting if we could do this with a python hook.
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OMG!!
It has been a while but would you still record an action and then batch apply that to a folder of all frames @ytf ?
Maybe. It depends on how long it would take. And if there were a better way to accomplish the job. In the case I outlined, there is nothing new in flame that would fix the problem, so I would do it again. I just haven’t had the issue come up since then.
No totally. I just haven’t done any batch processing in Photoshop for such a long time. I wondered if it had changed 
Certainly lots of fun new machine learning features. Has any of that made its way over to AfterEffects?
I have no idea. I don’t have the time or ambition to learn software I probably won’t ever use. But don’t let me discourage you.
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