Reshaker?

[Sillyname]

I've got a dead pixel on some very valuable footage. I've tried masking it only to realize, to my horror, that Electronic Image Stabilization moves the video itself to compensate for motion. So the dead pixel dances.

I am now trying to figure out a way to bring back the shakiness of the shot by trying to find a way to track the dancing pixel. By tracking, I don't mean a necessarily complex filter for virtualdub. The dead pixel appears in a dark area of the screen during most of the time, so I was wondering if there's any software that can motion compensate for the dancing pixel and reshake the video. Can I set Deshaker up to where it will act inverse to its usage?

[guns1inger]

I know the tracker in After Effects Pro bundle can do this, as can the tracker in most compositors. I haven't used the trackers in virtualdub, so I don't know how successful you will be.

[Sillyname]

I know the tracker in After Effects Pro bundle can do this, as can the tracker in most compositors. I haven't used the trackers in virtualdub, so I don't know how successful you will be.

Seems to me if a program can motion compensate to correct shakiness, then it can reverse that.

Deshaker appears to only let you set the size of the area that you analyze but not specify the area. It'd be nice if it had one more setting that let you add in x,y pixel values, so you can deshake specific groups of pixels. Once you get them stable, you can mask them and get rid of them, then deshake the entire video again and viola.

[SLK001]

If the dancing pixel stays in a small region only, then a script in AVISYNTH could work. Let's say the dancing pixel dances in a 20x20 pixel area only. Create a video (using CROP) of this area only, and apply a "dedoting" filter (two that immediately come to mind are DECLICK and DESPOT) to this video. Now, just use LAYER and MASK to overlay the new video over the old.