smoothing dropped frames from livestream in post: interpolation? generative extend?

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Hey folks! First time poster here, be gentle 🙂 I've a livestream from a week ago where the internet started dropping out (modem failed completely yesterday and now replaced).
We limped along the first hour or so until it mostly smoothed out. There are noticeable dropped frames, but the audio is great.
A) How would you approach smoothing out the dropped frames? Time interpolation? Generative extend with the beta? Both sound like hours of editing for a few minutes of results, which may not compute cost/benefit-wise for me. It's a live music show with 4-minute songs in a 2 hour stream.
B) Lesson learned, always record my own hard copy straight to disk while streaming without relying on the VOD later smh
Any hacks/time-saver advice much appreciated by this musician pretending to be a video editor! -eb

Mike Dziennik · Answer

How long/how many frames are dropped?You could add edits before and after the place your dropped frames occurs, so you have a 2 frame long clip. Duplicate your clip and stick it above on another track. Use the rate stretch tool to extend the clip for as long as is required to span the section missing. Then Right click on the clip and choose Optical Flow under Time Interpolation.Might work if you only have a few frames missing and depends on the content on screen.

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