I’m taking noisy old video, shot in the 1980s and upscaling that to 1440p.
I notice a lot of dust and scratches.
I have Davinci Studio 20 (paid version) and using Automatic Dust Removal node in the Color tab, and then feed that into a Deflicker.
These both work really well, and get rid of about 80% of the dust/scratches, and solve the flicker issue completely.
However, about 20% of the dust remains, it flashes on the screen for about 1 frame, and it tends to be a white dust element about 2-10 pixels in diameter, or a totally black dust element. So its the very white, and very black dust which remains - the gray dust is nicely dealt with.
Any advice on what else I could use to automatically get rid of the remaining 20% of the dust?
(I’m trying to avoid manually healing every frame because there are so many.)
DVO Dry Clean in Phoenix is superb for removing dirt automatically (much better and smarter algorithm than the simplistic one in Resolve). Far from free, but you said nothing about price… This is high-end professional film restoration software, maybe not what you are looking for…
I know there are some seemingly good and free AviSynth scripts/filters also, but have not tested those out myself…
It is pricey, I might wait until I have all my footage upscaled then get a month subscription.
From their website, looks like the Essentials + DVO Restore pack, whatever price that is, probably $100+ p/m at least.
Maybe I could try their demo, but I am sure that has limitations (like only processing half the image, or only doing 10 seconds or something?)
Didn’t Topaz have a dust and scratches AI at one stage in their Photo AI? I wonder if they are planning re-introducing that into Video AI.
This is high-end professional film restoration software, maybe not what you are looking for…