Dust and Scratches Filter Disappeared in Premiere Pro v 24.6.0

[boyirving]

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  Has it been replaced by something else?

[Carlos Ziade]

These has been moved to the Obsolete bin

[Ann Bens]

Obsolete Effects, Transitions and Presets removed

[Michael260332691569]

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

[R Neil Haugen]

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.

[Michael260332691569]

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. 

[R Neil Haugen]

Dust & scratches was a hard one to lose, no question there.

It was also one of the least used effects in the app, as a percentage of users. That's direct from the devs at NAB, and so ... there are other options for users, and they have far more used things that needed work.

It's not a 'nice' thing, but then, priorities decisions aren't normally 'nice', just necessary. So many of the changes I've wanted in color are similar: so few people would probably use them, that even though the devs listen and say, yea, that would be wonderful to have, and a certain subset of users would be ecstatic ... it's, bluntly,  a small subset.

Yea. 

I work for/with/teach pro colorists, most of whom are based in Resolve, with some in Baselight. Both apps have extensive internal effects for tons of things. Halation? Check! it's a very extensive set.

Yet nearly all the colorists I know ... and it's a large group, including not so known clear through some of the bigger names ... have at least one if not two complete sets of effects packages. Boris, and probably Red Giant/Maxon also.

They're paying up to or over a grand a year for added effects, often for ones that are already in Resolve or Baselight.

And editors tend to scream if they might benefit from a one-time $29 plugin. 

Personally, I do have the RedGiant Universe, the Autokroma BRAW Studio, and a number of other plugins. Plus stock music and graphics libraries. A cost of doing business.

[Warren Heaton]

@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.

[Carlos Ziade]

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.

[R Neil Haugen]

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.