AVI editing to lighten up problem spot ?

[rmnowick]

All,
I posted this on the "Advanced Conversion" forum but it looks like it is more applicable to the editing forum so here goes...

I have been using TMPGenc Plus to convert my HI-8 tapes from the captured AVI format to MPEG. I have tweaked the settings and am getting very good picture quality. The captures have some black bars on the left and right and I have used filters to remove that unused area resulting in a very clean picture with one exception.

In about half the files there is an annoying small "blob" in the upper center area of the footage. This is from when water condensed on the cameras CCD and left a visible "blob" that serves to slightly darken the footage in that location. Since it was on the CCD it stays in a fixed location.

Does anyone know of a way to use TMPGenc to "lighten up" the pixels associated with the specific area of the frames that have the blob in order to make it less discernable when the transfer to MPEG is completed? When panning across a light scene the "blob" is really distracting.

I have seen color filters in one of the advanced settings but have not explored it yet. Maybe I need a more powerful filtering/encoding program? Or maybe there is a standalong program that I could run on the AVI files that would clean them up first? Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks,
Robert

[lgh529]

Depending on how big it is, you could use the logoway filter for Virtualdub. It blocks what you select and blends the surrounding pixels to it.

[theDruid]

Yeah - you may be able to use the alpha blending in logoaway or deLogo filters in Virtual Dub to do this.

Don't expect miracles though!

cheers,
mcdruid.