How to Remove Dust Spots in a Clip & Make It Look Good | FCPX Tutorial Dust Spot Removal Video

There are already a few different Final Cut Pro X dust spot removal videos on YouTube (I didn't know until after making this FCPX Tutorial video). However, after watching them, I realized they all left out one crucial piece to the puzzle: making it look good!!! Therefore I am providing you with the best way to remove sensor dirt from your clips in Final Cut Pro!

I had the same general formula as everyone else but found a different and better way to hide my sensor dust, sensor dirt, camera artifacts, dust spots, whatever-you-want-to-call-them, in my beautifully shot clip!

0:00 Intro
0:25 Open Final Cut Pro X
0:34 Duplicate clip by holding Option+Click Drag above main clip
1:00 Open Effects browser, select draw mask, drag onto top clip
1:07 Draw around dust spots
1:28 Feather draw mask, I did 77.
1:39 Select Gaussian blur effect in the effects browser. Drag and drop onto the top clip.
1:46 All done. No more sensor dust spots on your clip!
1:54 Outro

The reason why this dust spot removal how to FCPX tutorial video is so much better than the other methods is because it doesn't copy another area of the video clip causing weird brights, darks, or any other changes being pulled from a different area of your clip. In fact, it takes into consideration the immediate pixels surrounding the dust spot and blurs it into the rest of the clip. Effectively making it disappear beautifully and naturally.

I hope you liked this video and learned something from it. Did you find some resolve in applying this method to your clip? Or did you do something different all together? Please let me know what you did and if it worked for you below in the comment section below!

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[ArboursAbroad]

Let me know what you thought and if you have any further questions regarding this issue or any other issue you may have encountered along the way! Cheers!

[suitcasejunkies]

Holy Moly Guacamole, I just tried this and I am like wow. This is so awesome, thank you for making this tutorial, game changer, much appreciated.

[gavinphx]

People like you are the superheroes of the internet. Thank you!

[kobocokoboco]

THANK YOU SO MUCH MAN!!! You’re awesome

[ALitoBitofJapan]

This was brilliant! Thanks for cleaning things up!

[MacandBlair]

Thank you Dust spots are killing my videos! Thanks for the fix.

[ALEXAWRIGHT]

Thank you so much for the helpful tutorial!

[mhammondrun]

Just used this, thanks for the helpful vid!

[ringwoodtv]

Thanks man, this saved me some time :)

[StudyScape]

So you are leaving the duplicate layer with Gaussian blue over the original correct? You aren’t replacing the original with the Gaussian when complete?

[alanabley]

Thank you for this but I can't find anything relating to removing dust spots from areas moving over different backgrounds like when panning. Any ideas?

[thechaparral]

Very nice, man. Do you think it is possible to remove glare glasses as well? I use glasses and all my videos has a green glare on my glasses. It is annoying me. Thanks!

[Desperant]

Funktioniert nur mit einfachen einfarbigen Verläufen (sowas wie Meer, Himmel

[adrianpale]

completely useless for any image that has movement around the dust spot. basically most things video

[llMick]

Dude you are my fucking lifesaver! Sending lots of love <3