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Restore Original Detail After Deflicker
Closed by default, opening this control group reveals two controls:
— Detail to Restore slider: Lets you quickly isolate grain, fine detail, and sharp edges that should not be affected by the deflicker operation, preserving those fine details exactly.
— Show Detail Restored checkbox: Turning this checkbox on lets you see the edges that are detected and used by the Detail to Restore slider, to help you tune this operation.
Output
The Output pop-up menu lets you choose what Deflicker outputs, with options to help you troubleshoot problem clips. Here are the available options:
— Deflickered Result: The final, repaired result. This is the default setting.
— Detected Flicker: This option shows you a mask that highlights the parts of the image that are being detected as having flickering, to help you evaluate whether the correct parts of the image are being targeted. This mask can be very subtle, however.
— Magnified Flicker: This options shows you an exaggerated version of the Detected Flicker mask, to make it easier to see what the Deflicker plugin is doing.
Dust Buster (Studio Version Only)
This plugin is also designed to eliminate dust, dirt, and other imperfections and artifacts from clips, but it does so only with user guidance, for clips where the Automatic Dirt Removal plugin yields unsatisfactory results. This guidance consists of moving through the clip frame-by-frame and drawing boxes around imperfections you want to eliminate. Once you’ve drawn a box, the offending imperfection is auto-magically eliminated in the most seamless way possible. This works well for dirt and dust, but it also works for really big stains and blotches, as seen below.
(Left) Drawing a box around dirt in the original image, (Right) Result in the Dust Buster plugin
In many respects, the Dust Buster is similar to the Dead Pixel Fixer, however the Dust Buster effect is designed to repair transient bits of dust and dirt that only last for a frame or two, whereas the Dead Pixel Fixer is designed to work on blemishes that are fixed in place for the duration of a clip.