BCC Dropout Fixer
Category: BCC Image Restoration
Effect Name: BCC Dropout Fixer
The BCC Dropout Fixer filter, part of the BCC Image Restoration category, was designed to fix field glitches / artifacts in a source clip which are present as a the result of digitizing tape based media with faulty equipment. Sometimes digitized media will have fields that contain artifacts due to brief signal loss โ the filter provides a way to isolate the exact frame with the field artifact and replace the damaged portion of the field with data from a near field.
Working with the Filter
Presets and Common Controls
- BCC filters come with a library of factory installed presets plus the ability to create your own custom presets and preview them with the BCC FX Browserโข.
- BCC filters also include common controls that configure global effect preferences and other host-specific effect settings.
For more information about working with presets and other common controls, Click Here.
Compare Mode
The Compare Mode is used to view the filtered result alongside the original source layer. Several split-screen and side-by-side display options are available.
For more information, see Compare Mode.
- Set Dropout Frame: Sets the dropout frame number to the current CTI location.
- Dropout Start Frame: Displays the frame number that is currently set for repair. This can also be set manually.
- Dropout Field: Sets the field to be repaired.
- Field 1
- Field 2
- Dropout Length: Sets the number of frames to be repaired.
- Preview: Sets the filter output.
- Original Field
- Dropout Field at CTI
- Dropout Field
- Replacement Field
- Output Field
- Output
- Dropout Top/Left: Sets the top left corner of the frame that is to be repaired.
- Dropout Bottom/Right: Sets the bottom right corner of the frame that is to be repaired.
- Mask Softness: Softens the edges of the dropout repair region.
- Mask Horizontally: By deafult, filter will operate in a horizontal strip across the frame, using only the X values in the Dropout Top left and Dropout Bottom Right fields. When enabled, the filter will operate on a shape defined by the X and Y values in the Dropout Top left and Dropout Bottom Right fields.
- Replace with: Determines the field replacement :
- Color: Fills the selected field with solid color as defined by the Fill Color chip.
- Nearest Field Forward: Fills the selected field with the corresponding field from the next frame.
- Nearest Field Back: Fills the selected field with the corresponding field from the previous frame.
- Fill Color: Sets the fill color.
