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Flawless Unit Plate Series

The producers want the hero close-up cleared of sensor dust for the final QC pass across three shots. I'm not worried …

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CDecide — “help me choose”The producers want the hero close-up cleared of sensor dust for the final QC pass across three…+
The producers want the hero close-up cleared of sensor dust for the final QC pass across three shots. I'm not worried about doing the work, I'm worried our fixes will be visible at 2K. Advise whether a mix of global spot-heal plus frequency-separation is the right route versus painstaking frame-by-frame paint, and specify what acceptance criteria I should use so our fixes never ping in the QC pass.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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Producer asks for a flawless plate series; I'm protecting the unit's credit

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