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Specialty Image Repair Tools

There are two tools here to repair hot pixels, which are artifacts that appear when digital cameras take long exposures say of a night sky.  Light dots appear where they should not be, and seem to be an effect of the pixel auto-firing.


Name -  HotPixels Eliminator

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2 out of 5 - Predicted quality and likelihood of recovery. 4 out of 5 - Predicted speed of data recovery if successful.

Download URL - hotpixels.zip

Developer - MediaChance

OS - Windows 95/98/ME?/NT/2000?/XP (I tried XP)

File Size - 522 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT16/32/NTFS

Developer Provided Description - " Hot pixels is a known problem of all CCD cameras during long exposures (1s and up). A hot pixel is created by an element with a higher rate of charge leakage than its neighbors.  On long exposure the leakage may cross the exposed value threshold thus producing a white dot on the image. HotPixels, the program removes such noise with preserving details."

Comment - It seems to blur the photo a bit.


Name - BlackFrame NR

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2 out of 5 - Predicted quality and likelihood of recovery. 2 out of 5 - Predicted speed of data recovery if successful.

Download URL - blackframe.zip

Developer - MediaChance

OS - Windows 95/98/ME?/NT/2000?/XP (It at least opens in XP, I did not have a black reference frame to try this with)

File Size - 371 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - FAT16/32/NTFS

Developer Provided Description - "Hot pixels is a known problem of all CCD cameras during long exposures (1s and up). A hot pixel is created by an element with a higher rate of charge leakage than its neighbors. On long exposure the leakage may cross the exposed value threshold thus producing a white dot on the image. BlackFrame NR uses a black-frame method to removes such noise with preserving all details."

Comment - This is probably a better idea than above.  It involves taking a reference black frame with the lens cap on.  Any hot pixels that show up are subtracted from the original.  It has three algorithms for doing this.


Name - DivX Digest - DivFix

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Download URL - DivFix110.zip

Developer - Digital Digest

OS - Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP, Linux, Other

File Size - 267 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - AVI, DivX

Developer Provided Description - This program was created to be able to watch partially downloaded DivX (AVI) movies. It can rebuild or strip the index part of the movie, which is at the end of the file. There are also a basic error detection, which can detect serious errors in the audio/video stream.

Comment - Not currently available. May be added later.


Name - DivXRepair

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Download URL - DivXRepair.zip

Developer - DivX

OS - Not Specified

File Size - 425 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Not Specified

Developer Provided Description - Using DivXRepair, you can repair corrupt avi files and eliminate freezes. This program automatically detects and eliminates bad frames.

Comment - Not currently available. May be added later.


Name - DNG Recover Edges

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Download URL - DNG Recover Edges Download

Developer - Thomas Knoll

OS - Windows and Mac OS

File Size -
Windows version - 469 KB
Mac Version - 706 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - AVI, DivX

Developer Provided Description - Solving a problem that few people knew even existed, Thomas Knoll, one of the original authors of Photoshop, and the creator of Adobe's Camera Raw, has written a free utility program which recovers all of the pixels that any supported digital camera records, whether it's hidden edges or intentionally cropped formats.

Called DNG Recover Edges, this small utility is available for both Windows PCs and Macs. All cameras supported by Camera Raw are supported by DNG Recover Edges. This utility is available exclusively here, courtesy of Thomas Knoll and The Luminous Landscape. Please note that this application is unsupported, and is not an Adobe product.

Once the program is installed all you need to do is to drag one or more DNG files onto its Icon. Any hidden edges will be recovered and resaved back to its original DNG file. Note that JPG files can not be handled, and any RAW file will first need to be converted to DNG format within Camera Raw, Adobe DNG Converter, or some other DNG compatible conversion program.

Comment - Not currently available. May be added later.


Name - VirtualDub.org

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Download URL - VirtualDub1.6.14.zip

Developer - VirtualDub.org

OS - Not Specified

File Size - Not Specified

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Not Specified

Developer Provided Description - VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

Comment - Not currently available. May be added later.


Name - Overnet Joiner

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Download URL - Overnet Joiner Download

Developer - StockBloke.com

OS - Not Specified

File Size - 124 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Not Specified

Developer Provided Description - Overnet Joiner tries to take *.part files and make a usable joined file. This will normally only work on files which can tolerate missing bits. Like AVI or MPG files. The first part (1.1.part) must have the header information for the files to be playable. If part 1.1 is missing Overnet Joiner will not work.

Comment - Not currently available. May be added later.


Name - ProletSoft's Steeper v1.2

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Download URL - Steeper v1.2 Download

Developer - ProletSoft

OS - Not Specified

File Size - 438 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Not Specified

Developer Provided Description - Steeper enables you to repair, modify, join and cut out fragments from ASF and WMV files. It is based upon and is using ASFCut, a command line utility by RadioActive. Steeper requires Window Media Services at least with version 9.0.

Comment - Not currently available. May be added later.


Name - UDPixel 2.1 - udpix.free.fr

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Download URL - UDPixel 2.1

Developer - Samuel Larche

OS - Windows 2000/XP/2003 with .Net Framework

File Size - 60 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Not Specified

Developer Provided Description - This program helps to locate and fix LCD screens dead pixels. You can fix the stuck pixels by calling them to do rapid changes. You need to run this program for a couple of hours. There is no warranty on the result, but you don't really have anything to lose trying it out.

Comment - Not currently available. May be added later.



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