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Lyris
18th April 2014, 19:15
Hi forumers,
I have a film scan that has some damaged frames. Fortunately the content is limited animation, so there's a clean copy of the exact same drawing held for a couple of frames. I want to delete the damaged frames and replace them with a copy of one of the good frames from later in the sequence.

Crucially, I don't want to take the duplicate from the next frame in the playback order, because that will cause the film grain to visibly freeze on playback. But if I take one from later, nobody will really notice it's a duplicate frame on playback.

Question is, how to accomplish this? I can DuplicateFrame(xxx) but that places the new copy directly beside the source.

Is there any way, in one command, to say "replace frame 1234 with a copy of frame 4567"?

Guest
18th April 2014, 19:25
FreezeFrame(1234,1234,4567)

You will need a reliable frame-accurate source filter, of course. DG tools would be adequate.

Lyris
18th April 2014, 19:49
Fantastic, thank you!