User Manual

Dust Buster (Studio Version Only)
This plug-in is also designed to eliminate dust, dirt, and other imperfections and artifacts from
clips, but it does so only with user guidance, for clips where the Automatic Dirt Removal plug-in
yields unsatisfactory results. This guidance consists of moving through the clip frame-by-frame
and drawing boxes around imperfections you want to eliminate. Once you’ve drawn a box, the
offending imperfection is auto-magically eliminated in the most seamless way possible. This
works well for dirt and dust, but it also works for really big stains and blotches, as seen below.
(Left) Drawing a box around dirt in the original image, (Right) Result in the Dust Buster plug-in
This plug-in works similarly to, but supersedes the legacy Dust Removal feature, which only
worked on select image sequence formats and wrote new media files on disk. The Dust Buster
plug-in works on any format of movie clip and works non-destructively, storing all image repairs
within the plug-in without creating new media. Best of all, this plug-in is able to do its magic with
only three controls.
 Mode: Selects how imperfections within the bounding box you draw are fixed.
Bydefault, Auto just takes care of things without you needing to think about this.
However, if you’re not satisfied with the result, you can undo and choose a different
method from this pop-up method. Here are all the options that are available to you.
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Auto: The default method. Once you’ve drawn a bounding box, the two frames
prior to and the two frames after the current clip will be analyzed and compared to
the current image. The best of these 5 frames will be drawn upon to remove the
imperfection in the current frame. Images two frames away are prioritized since that
will avoid the appearance of frozen grain, but only if they’re suitable.
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Prev/Next Frame: If you draw a bounding box from left to right, the next frame will
be drawn upon to remove the imperfection. If you draw a bounding box from right to
left, the previous frame will be used.
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Prev–1/Next+1 Frame: If you draw a bounding box from left to right, the image
two frames forward will be drawn upon to remove the imperfection. If you draw a
bounding box from right to left, the image two frames back will be used.
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Spatial Fill: In cases where the other two modes yield unsatisfactory results, such as
when the underlying image has fast or blurred motion, this mode uses surrounding
information in the current frame to remove the imperfection.
 Show Patches: Off by default. Turning this checkbox on lets you see every bounding
box you’ve drawn to eliminate imperfections. While the patches are shown, you can
Shift-click to select individual patches, group select patches by Command-dragging a
bounding box, and delete unwanted patches individually by Option-clicking them.
 Reset Frame: Resets all of the bounding boxes drawn on the current frame, so you can
start over.
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