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Participating Frequently
Sep 30, 2024 12:01 PM UTC
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reintroduce Dust & scratches

Dear Adobe team,

 

the replacement from Dust & scratches with gaussian blur is very unfavorable.
These are 2 completely different effects.
Please reintroduce the  Dust & scratches effect or add a good replacement.

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Participating Frequently
Oct 1, 2024 8:35 PM UTC

Do you have a solution for my case?

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Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
Oct 1, 2024 8:23 PM UTC

The effect is (or rather was) designed to reduce defects in the image itself, not the content.

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Participating Frequently
Oct 1, 2024 7:44 PM UTC

On the objects, which I film

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Ann Bens
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Oct 1, 2024 11:24 AM UTC

You mean scratches in the glass/metal or in the videofile?

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Participating Frequently
Oct 1, 2024 10:32 AM UTC

I often film products made of glass or metal.
There are minor scratches. Dust & scratches has removed those scratches and not blurred them, even without selecting every single item.

Or even dust was removed without blurring and you didn't have to select every dust particle.

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R Neil Haugen
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Sep 30, 2024 4:41 PM UTC

I agree with you. I've even used that effect maybe five times in the last decade. But the reality is, like a lot of my color control/mod requests, the user subset that would actually use this is ... relatively tiny.

 

At which point the devs are going to note that there are excellent plugins for this rather niche workflow. Which is understandable, if ... well ... yea, irritating.

 

I wish it were otherwise. But as a practical person, there are some excellent plugins for helping with this. Check out aescripts.com first, then there's a whole list of companies doing Premiere effects plugins.

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Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Participating Frequently
Sep 30, 2024 3:44 PM UTC

Yes, but this is also an another effect.

With the dust and Scratches effect you can remove small Trash and debris without blurring the frame so much.

Denoise is good for grit 

 

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Ann Bens
Community Expert
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Sep 30, 2024 2:44 PM UTC

Don't get your hopes up.

 

Tried VR:de-noise?

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Participating Frequently
Sep 30, 2024 12:01 PM UTC

Since the new version 24.6, the “dust & scratches” effect no longer exists. Adobe says it has been replaced with gaussian blur. But they are two different effects! gaussian blur simply makes things blurry. Who has a solution? How do you replace the effect?

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Community Expert
Oct 1, 2024 7:59 AM UTC

Could you give an example of what you use the Dust & Scratches effect for? That way, we can suggest a suitable replacement.

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