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Dust and Scratches Filter Disappeared in Premiere Pro v 24.6.0

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August 27, 2024
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The Dust and Scratches Filter seems to have disappeared in Premiere Pro v 24.6.0. I use this a lot in my work. Has it been replaced by something else?

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Obsolete Effects, Transitions and Presets removed

Dpmatlosz

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Wow premier is just pushing us more and more to Resolve. Seems 'they' decide on their own what we should and shouldn't have and use. Sure maybe I use dust and scratches maybe once or twice per year, but for the love of pete, forcing us to offload to After FX then back again for a simple dust fix is redic on every level. It's such a drag there are way too many bored programers jacking with perfectly good programs to justify whatever it is they justify. There is a quote my father taught me long ago, "If it Ain't broke don't fix it!" Perhaps at some point in time app leadership will learn this mantra, until then, we get good things taken away due to a few bad actors.

Dpmatlosz

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What makes it even more redic that adobe would remove Dust and Scratches is that they kept: Turbulent Displace, Twirl, And all the lame VR applications... One step closer to Davinci

R Neil Haugen

Legend

You and I will never use the VR things ... no reason to.

However, though we don't find them useful, there are many others that do. By the use, clearly a lot more than used D&S effect any more, as odd as that seems to us. Most users never deal with media that needs "cleaning".

Ah well.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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ProLightMedia

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It's completely gone in Premiere Pro 2025. Removing a feature without offering a new one in its place is unacceptable. I don't know why they thought it necessary when nearly every video professional has dealt with a sensor spot at some point in their career. This is just another case of Adobe making "progress" at the customer's expense.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

As has been commented on for seven years now ... those effects were used by under 1% of the user base.

So they were all things that were only, very rarely, used. Most of all had another, better, more modern designed replacement. Which is the case for dust & scratches, as the Ae version is vastly more capable. And pretty quick and easy to use.

So why keep ancient code that wasn't GPU accelerated and could cause other effects to drop from GPU acceleration also?

I wish they'd updated a couple myself, naturally. However I do understand the decision.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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ProLightMedia

Participant

It just feels like Premiere pro is built off "old code" If you've ever worked in resolve, you'd find out how much you are missing in terms of functionality. Now the only reason I use premiere is dynamic link and text based editing. Which I'll give it to them is pretty cool. But everything else just sucks.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Warren and Carlos have good comments.

Personally, I'd simply open the clip in Ae, do the dust & scratches work there, and export as a new clip. Picking a decent DI format like 422 or so. Use that in Premiere as a replacement for the original, do the rest of the work there on that clip.

But we all work differently, which is a very fascinating and actually very useful thing. There's always someone with another way to do something you can learn from.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Carlos Ziade

Community Expert

So this was totally removed, another option:

You can also do it once inside After Effects, and save that as a mogrt, then import to Premiere Pro,

or export it from After Effects as an overlay with alpha channel.

There are also many ready made dust and scratches overlays, you might find some on Adobe Stock.

Warren Heaton

Community Expert

@boyirving

It can be very disappointing when an effect we use frequently is removed from an application.

Dust & Scratches is available in Adobe After Effects. Either import the clip directly into an After Effects project or replace it in the Timeline with an After Effects Composition. On the After Effects side, the effect is under Effects > Noise & Grain > Dust & Scratches.

It adds some extra steps and requires that you save an After Effects project file that you would not have had to do otherwise, but should yield the same end result.

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Michael260332691569

Participant

Removed cuz we want more money so buy AE, too bad hahaha

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Nope, really. The "Obsolete" effects have all been in the Obsolete folder since at least 2018. Shoulda been enough warning, I'd think, though yea, I miss a couple too.

Those were mostly ancient code and weren't heavily used across the entire user base. So between the old code and (relatively few users) ... they weren't deemed worth completely rewriting, with everything else on the plate. You know, setting priorities.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Michael260332691569

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Yeah, no, that's awfully covenient. Obsolete should mean something is replaced with something better and available for immediate use within the same purchase of the original product. Dust & Scratches were the only easy (reallllly slow sure) way to dust and clean footages and important for any editors worth a damn. Locking the alternative behind a paywall is anti-consumer.