Removing Dust Spots in a Timelapse

Getting rid of dust spots in a still photo is easy. Just hit the healing brush (photoshop) or spot removal (lightroom) and “poof” it’s gone….

But what about in a timelapse? During time lapses we’re often using very high apertures (especially during the day), and no matter how clean you think your lens and sensor are, some spots are going to show up somewhere!

Using spot removal in Lightroom with LRTimelapse causes really strange flickering and doesn’t really work.

Fortunately aftereffects has you covered.

Here’s a great (and very quick) tutorial on how to get rid of those pesky blotches: