Help removing a hot pixel?

[bakonfreek]

My video camera has a spot where there is a pretty good sized hot pixel on it. Is there a way that I can remove the spot with little to no distortion? My software options include Adobe premiere CS6, Adobe After Effects CS6, Lightworks, Virtualdub and FFMpeg. Is there anything in any one of these programs that will fix this?

[Cornucopia]

Record a sement of vid with the lens cap on so it shows only Black (plus the hot pixels). Loop it.
You will use this as your mask.
Put your regular vid on a top layer, put a BLURRED/AVERAGED/MEDIANED copy of you regular vid on the bottom layer, and using the mask, you will cut out holes in the upper layer where the lower layer will show through.

The good part is the blur section will only affect those few hot pixel areas.

Scott

edit: For Dead pixels, as opposed to hot pixels, shoot a WHITE area (or bright light) and reverse the mask, then follow the above procedures. Maxing out the contrast on the mask helps here.

[Guest34343]

Use an in-painting logo removal filter with the logo size and position defined as the area of the hotspot.

E.g., LogoAway filter in VirtualDub.

[budwzr]

Same as Scott, except use an offset copy of the footage in the background.

[bakonfreek]

Thanks for the feedback. I have tried logoaway, but I haven't had much luck. It might be because I'm a complete n00b in virtualdub (I'm using logoaway version 2.3). I'll try the mask thing Scott recommended, the main worry I have is the pixel is actually a whole section which is a few pixels wide by less pixels tall (something like a 6x2 area affected in an 854x480 frame). I had good results using warp stabilizer in after effects but the render time is around 6-10 seconds of rendering for 1 frame of SD video.

[bakonfreek]

I have a short segment of footage here. I deinterlaced the footage and the pixel seemed to shrink when I did, but I'd like to eliminate it completely with little to no distortion of the video. I also can't send it in because the extended warranty expired last year :P

[Cornucopia]

I have a short segment of footage here. I deinterlaced the footage and the pixel seemed to shrink when I did, but I'd like to eliminate it completely with little to no distortion of the video. I also can't send it in because the extended warranty expired last year :P

That's why I said what I did. With the method I described the only area affected in the whole video is the hot pixel area (which will be basically replaced with similar/neighboring footage). What have you got to lose?

Scott

[jagabo]

Record a sement of vid with the lens cap on so it shows only Black (plus the hot pixels). Loop it.

Or just take any frame where the hot spot is visible, export it as an image, then use a paint program make the hot spot white and the rest of the image black. Then use that image as your mask.

[Cornucopia]

Yeah, same difference.

Scott

[jagabo]

By the way, posting a short clip of the original video would be much better than a deinterlaced, resized, Xvid clip.

[Guest34343]

+1, jagabo!

I'm willing to get the Logoaway solution working if OP will post an unprocessed source sample.