Remove Water Spots from video

[Richkut]

After returning home from a wonderful trip to the land of "liquid sunshine" (e.g, Hawaii), I have begun to edit my footage (mini-DV). Unfortunately, the liquid sunshine evidently placed itself and dried on my camcorder lens several times and I guess that I neglected wipe it off as often as I should have. Nevertheless, several times throughout my footage I notice evident water spots (mostly when the camcorder is turned towards the source of light, and much less noticeable if at all when the source light is behind my back). Is there a Sony Vegas filter (or any other third party filter) that can be used to eliminate or greatly reduce noticing the water spots? If not, what do you gurus suggest I do to help salvage this footage? Any ideas? I really do not want to over use an effect to call attention to the fact that I am trying to fix something in post, so I am hoping that someone can offer a realistic way to help me out. While the water spots ARE quite evident, they are not overpowering enough to TOTALLY ruin the shots, but enough to be slightly annoying. Thanks in advance!!

[zoobie]

I'm afraid filming with mud on the lens is going to leave you screwed
Maybe you can disguise the problematic shots with effects
Displaying them on a soft display (CRT tv) won't show as much damage as compared to a sharp display (FP monitor)
It may not be noticable to anyone but you
But it would have been a lot easier to spend 10 seconds and make sure the lens was wiped off than all this

[olyteddy]

You might be able to use some kind of de-logo filter if the spots stay in the same spot long enough. Either VirtualDub and AVI-Synth have such filters available.