How to EASILY remove dust spots from your videos in Premiere Pro & After Effects

How to quickly and easily remove dust & sensor spots using ONLY Premiere Pro. Plus, if you have a lot of dust spots, I show you how to do it even quicker in After Effects.

With 4K video and mirrorless cameras, it is no longer a question of if you will get a dust spot, but when. Thankfully, with this tutorial you won't have to stress anymore. 😃

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[whoismatt]

Thanks so much for watching guys! Here's a timeline for the video in case you want to jump around:
00:00 - Video start
02:40 - How to easily remove dust spots in Premiere Pro
07:12 - How to remove A LOT of dust spots from your footage easily in After Effects
13:47 - Conclusion

Please let me know if you have any questions. 😃

[SamGarfield]

Great timing on this video. I just got back from a shoot and about cried when I saw the ridiculous amount of dust on my sensor.

[definitiveaerials]

A cannot understand how someone could dislike this. I've tried the other methods Matt mentions and they only work for static shots, thanks for this, will be getting a rocket blower :). Thanks, bacon saved.

[blackbird]

when you cleansed your lenses 5x beforehand and realize afterwards that the dust spot was on the sensor...duuugh. Thanks so much Matt, you're a life saver

[jamesdeere]

I rented a Sony A7iv the other week. Amazing footage, but the rental shop didn't clean the sensor between rentals. I had HUGE dirt spots on my lovely 4K footage, but this tutorial has genuinely saved my life. Thank you thank you thank you Matt

[Gumbasso]

Matt, thank You so much! At first i did every step the way You showed and the black spot was stil visible. Then I did some adjustments, turned out for me Radius 5 completely removed the dust spot! So for everyone that doesnt get proper results - experiment with it, find what works for you. Also, if you have a lot of footages (in my case it is whole wedding...yep:-/ ) use the adjustmant leyer. Copy the effect and put the adjustment leyer over every footage at the very end of your editing.

[ffs.a]

You saved my life!!! I'm nearly crying of happiness 😂 Thank you so much!!! Wishing you a wonderful day from Dublin, Ireland

[pckepotato]

You're a true hero! I filmed my very first paid project 2 days ago and I started panicking when I noticed all the dust on my videos;; This will totally fix it; thank you!

[JohnBoyWayneMusic]

Thank you my man..like praise the lord! Had my first dust on sensor show up in footage after a whole video shoot and wanted to throw entire camera into microwave but boom Matt once again saved the day!

[SheisFireAsh]

You are a life saver! I was editing a wedding and. Noticed the dust and I’m dang near loss my mind and cried. This video helped so much

[frediabolo]

This is so quick. I was previously using 30 keyframes in lrtimelapse with the clone tool and was getting a 70percent removal of dust with 2hours of work. This is 100percent removal in 10mins. Wish I had found this channel earlier. Thanks

[SpyroShurtagul]

I cannot tell you how amazing this video was for me at this moment. I'm currently on a time crunch due to some procrastinating screw up of an employee giving me a video the day it's due to fix a bunch of things and my whole night is saved (at least for this part). I bow to you, good sir! THANK YOU

[sundialrecords]

You're the man. It's like you read my mind. Every time I have a filmmaking issue, you have a video with the answer. Solid.

[XxGriMFilmsxX]

I don't normally comment on videos, but I have to commend how amazingly insightful your video was! Keep doing what you do Matt, you got another subscriber coming in.

[AbandonedIsleofWight]

Thank you so much for this tutorial Matt, you are an absolute legend! I was tearing my hair out thinking I was going to have to completely re-shoot an entire days work because key shots were ruined by dust on my B cam (which I stupidly didn't check!)
A genuinely easy 5 min fix, I'd recommend the AF method over premiere as the masking is a lot less fiddly

[notmiketate]

DUDE YES THIS IS SO HELPFUL!! Just got done doing mental gymnastics trying to figure out how I was going to fix mine. Was going to try it my own way but luckily I'm subscribed and you came up before I had to do any searching. You're the man

[BodyworksPrime]

Spent 2 hours trying to get a perfect take for a video because I kept tripping up and making mistakes on the script. I didn't want to have any jump cuts so wanted to do it in one take (because I am annoyingly a perfectionist about my videos). I finally got the perfect take and was so pleased! I got back to my PC to review the footage and had a huge random white spec on my t-shirt despite lint rolling it right before 😂 I was soooo annoyed but this video just saved my sanity. Many thanks 🙏 I wish I had known this effect sooner

[aseelabduljawad]

Tried 5 videos yours was the only one that worked!! Thank you!!

[NorthFloridaPhotoAndVideo]

I am in the process of editing a wedding video that was shot outdoors and on a terrace. The footage from the second camera had a significant amount of crud on the lens -- needless to say -- This was a life saver! Thank you!

[oriomenoni]

Thanks much for this tutorial! Is it possible to apply the Premiere technique only on a certain frames range of a clip, instead of the whole clip? Thank you!