I'm currently dealing with random noise (laser rot?) in the raw X9 capture.

There are many white and black spots that appear for only 1-5 frames which are sometimes greater than 20x20px in size. Moreover, I see some large artifacts that look like glue and cigarette burns.

The RemoveDirt() script in AVS fixes some of the aforementioned, but blurs the image too much and fails to fully remove the large artifacts.

I'm willing to fix these frames by hand in Photoshop, but I don't want to step through all 170,000+ frames first. Does anyone know of an automated method to find all (including some false positives, of course) offending frames and dump the respective frame numbers to a log file?

Would the VirtualDub MSU Noise Estimation Filter work well?