Quote Hi all. Qucik question. I recorded a video and realize that there was dog fur on a small area of my black jacket. I do not have time to re-record all these clips, but this will clearly look unprofessional. Is there any way to use PD to cover this up? I would appreciate any guidance.

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

Could be a little or BIG ask!
In theory, if you were a static brick wall then a small image overlay would be easy to cover up a defect.

Some things to consider in real life :-
How much do you move around, which means how complex would the tracking movement need to be.
You would need a suitable image that more or less exactly matches the look and texture of the jacket - otherwise you swap one defect for another.
You may need to take account of lighting changes on the jacket that would affect the appearence of any overlay.

Without knowing the exact situation, I would start by taking the highest res snapshot of a representative frame, use an image editor to clone out the dog fur, save the cloned area but bear in mind the effect of enlarging/reducing the resulting image for use as an overlay - ie textures becoming too large or whatever.
You may have to feather edges etc to avoid hard lines.
Use this image as an overlay and start playing to see if the theory works well enough to work.

Others might have more ideas to get you started.

Cheers,
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Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately, there is a lot of motion, so using masks would be an enormous pain. Would there be a way to "color" over the spots by using color director?

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Hi,

Could be a little or BIG ask!
In theory, if you were a static brick wall then a small image overlay would be easy to cover up a defect.

Some things to consider in real life :-
How much do you move around, which means how complex would the tracking movement need to be.
You would need a suitable image that more or less exactly matches the look and texture of the jacket - otherwise you swap one defect for another.
You may need to take account of lighting changes on the jacket that would affect the appearence of any overlay.

Without knowing the exact situation, I would start by taking the highest res snapshot of a representative frame, use an image editor to clone out the dog fur, save the cloned area but bear in mind the effect of enlarging/reducing the resulting image for use as an overlay - ie textures becoming too large or whatever.
You may have to feather edges etc to avoid hard lines.
Use this image as an overlay and start playing to see if the theory works well enough to work.

Others might have more ideas to get you started.

Cheers,
PowerDirector Moderator

If this stain is really in the way, you might give it a go with ColorDirector and use the tracking function. Select the stain and track it as good as possible, maybe a bit wider then it is, and if need be using the frame by frame tracking to ensure that the spot to covered correctly. Then use the color of the jacket to "paint" over it, or to change the color to that of the jacket. That should be doable.
Whether the stain will be left properly unnoticed is to be seen.

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And alternative would be to put a sticker of a smilly face over it instead of the color change, just to make it even more visible that something is wrong there. (Depending on the application of the clip). And/or make it even more ridicullous by pointing to it with an arrrow etc.
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