Removing Lens Spots

[madmartian]

I have a video sequence with spots on the lens. I need to painstakingly remove the spots from each frame of video. What is the best/fastest way to do this and still end up with a single AVI file with sound and video together as it was originally? I know how to use the healing tool in Photoshop, but I don't know how to extract and later reassemble individual frames. Is there a progam that will let me fix this easily without extracting frames into individual files?

[FOO]

DeLogo

[madmartian]

DeLogo looks promising. However, I have a problem loading my AVI file into VirtualDub. At first I could not load it at all due to a missing codec. I tried the Canopus codec recommended elsewhere on this site and that did not work. I then tried the Mainconcept codec and that works, but the video is stretched to wide-screen even though it is not a wide-screen video. Any other ideas on how to get a digital AVI file to load properly in virtual dub?

[Josef K]

...I could not load it at all due to a missing codec...

Load your .AVI into GSpot.

[madmartian]

It doesn't look like DeLogo is going to work. Lens spots change depending on how the light hits them. DeLogo is looking for constants.

[akbor75]

i think you need software that supports frame editing.
edit studio does. didn't use it yet, though, so i don't know if it's easy or not.

[madmartian]

I stand corrected. DeLogo doesn't completely remove the spots but it does reduce them somewhat. Thanks for the tip. Now if I can figure out why VirtualDub is stretching my image, I can actually use it.