CSI:Miami outdoors look

Eugenia wrote on 8/21/2007, 2:44 AM

My effort/guide to emulate the CSI:Miami look. Might be of use to some. Hint: it does not involve just saturation. :)
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/08/21/achieving-the-csimiami-look/

Comments

4eyes wrote on 8/21/2007, 5:45 AM

Eugenia,
Looks nice, are you applying the filters to the original m2t files or converting them to cineform first?
Hugh difference, looks great.

My cam Sony HC3 doesn't shoot 24p, only 29.97i.

Off topic: Have you found a good method to de-interlace ntsc recorded at 29.97 to make hd-wmv looks the same as the original. I have one method but it's not de-interlacing and the video won't always play correctly.

IRH wrote on 8/21/2007, 6:22 AM

Nice, Eugenia.

Question - what did you use to render out to 720/30p H.264 .mp4? VMS Platinum 8 doesn't permit rendering out to that format at that resolution, unless I've been overlooking something important.

Ian.

4eyes wrote on 8/21/2007, 8:08 AM

There are a few programs that can do this now.
I'm using Nero7 ultra edition enhanced with the latest updates to create these videos and also avchd disks. The selection in Nero is Nero_Digital_AVC. If you don't choose the avc Nero produces just a mp4 compressed video.

IRH wrote on 8/21/2007, 8:59 AM

Thanks 4eyes. Which program within Nero 7 (of the 25 or 30 it ships with, most of which I didn't install)?

Eugenia wrote on 8/21/2007, 10:02 AM

Thank you all.

>are you applying the filters to the original m2t files or converting them to cineform first

I am using the original m2t. Then, I render out using the open source Huffyuv codec so I don't lose any quality, and then I transform that to h.264 with my method linked below.

>Have you found a good method to de-interlace ntsc recorded at 29.97 to make hd-wmv looks the same as the original.

Yes, I am using the Vegas Project Settings to tell it is progressive, then I tell it to use Interpolate instead of Blend Fields, and then on the export dialog I tell it that it's progressive too. That works great. :)

>what did you use to render out to 720/30p H.264 .mp4?

My own scripts with FFMPEG. Information here, on my previous tutorial:
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/08/11/from-dvhdvavchd-to-ps3xbox360appletv/
I don't use graphical tools to encode (like the million Windows tools out there) because I need the flexibility for best results...

routerguy99 wrote on 8/21/2007, 1:08 PM

Thanks for the great share.. :)

ritsmer wrote on 8/21/2007, 2:50 PM

Yes - really a stunning result.

I had a recent project about a garden. Even if I recorded it in the best of sunshine it did not have the wanted "bright" (CSI-Miami?) -touch that I had wanted.

Beeing somewhat lazy I just added one single colour correction FX with 20% saturation plus 30% Gamma plus some 10% gain - as proposed - and voila: the result was a class or two better.