How to remove fixed dots due bad pixels on the camera CCD?

[Fran-K]

I´ve noticed my DV camcoder have bad pixels on the CCD. Can someone sugest a good solution to hide that dots mixing with the surrouding pixels? Could be in Vegas or Avisynth.

With the dots in a fixed position, I think using a plugin like Undot would be a waste of time,

[jameshgross]

How about getting it repaired.

[guns1inger]

Try a delogo filter instead. Just limit it's focus to a small area around the errant pixel

[Fran-K]

jameshgross: xcelent idea! But I think repair the camera won't fix the footages made before I've noticed the problem.

guns1inger: Good sugestion. The color of the pixels are not fixed, so I'll have to make the mask on Photoshop, and set the parameters to full opaque. Let's try.

[redwudz]

Not Advanced Conversions. Moving to Editing, cutting and joining.

[zoobie]

trying is half the battle...
you'll get it

[Cornucopia]

Mediachance (maker of DVDLabPro) has a photo plugin/utility called "HotPixels Fix".

http://www.mediachance.com/plugins/index.html

Could be utilized in a similar way to still photos for video.

Scott

[Fran-K]

I've managed to fix the hotpixels using Vdub's Delogo in Repair mode. They are now invisible in 95% of time. One more plugin for my utility belt!
Thanx