How to cover up ONE missing frame??

[Tom Lowe]

Don't ask me how, but I seem to be missing ONE frame from a 500-frame timelapse sequence. This was shot with a DSLR (Canon .CR2 RAW), so each RAW frame really stands on its own in a 30p or 24p After Effects timeline.

Anyway, about 2/3rds of the way through the RAW sequence, one frame has somehow been deleted from my harddrive (and all my backups), and now I need to create an interpolated frame between IMG_1203 and IMG_1205. How can I do that?

I'm an AE noob, so you will have to explain it like you're talking to an idiot. :)

thanks so much.

[Hawk Teflon]

Just a thought off the top of my head, and this may not even work, but why not take both pictures, deinterlace them, then put 05 over top of 03 at 50% opacity. In my mind this works. I'm sure there's no way it's this easy.

[JackPott]

Can you not just export the frame before or after and diddle it in Photoshop?

[Arson]

Take the footage including a bunch of frames before and after it.
Turn on "time remapping" and then choose "pixel motion" then stretch the footage and insert the new frame it creates in the space where the missing frame should be.

Pixel motion will intellegently make a new frame based on the edges of objects it finds in both images rather than just combining the 2 frames into a blurry mess.

[Tom Lowe]

Thanks a lot guys! I might be able to save this clip after all.

Okay, just to be clear:

I grab a chunk of footage around the missing frame.

Turn on timeremapping. Stretch the clip to like 50% speed. Set to pixel motion.

But how and at what point do I "grab" the resulting interpolated frame? Can I grab it RAW? Export a single PSD frame?

Right now, I'm working with this clip as a RAW timeline, but I could do the whole thing as a PSD image sequence if need be. I would just have to batch the RAW through Photoshop, and insert the grabbed interpolated frame, I guess.

[Tom Lowe]

Any more ideas? I might try this tomorrow. I have two sequences to fix.

[Lee Wilson]

Any more ideas? I might try this tomorrow. I have two sequences to fix.

Send them to me I will do it for you a little later today.