film like

netkoala wrote on 12/22/2003, 9:10 AM

Briefly saw in a book the suggestion to duplicate the track, have the top track on upper and the bottom on lower.
Not sure if there is a clever trick with using the " progressive" setting on the track at all, but whilst doing this you obviously cannot set to progresive.
(also mentioned reducing opacity down a bit)

Book made distinction between film like and like film.

Is this a better method than using progressive mode ?

Also, why the popularity in this forum about shooting in film mode and getting the cinema look ? Is it a NTSC thing, a pull down thing to 24p, or just the appearance ?

Comments

pelladon wrote on 12/22/2003, 9:31 AM

netkoala, the emphasis is really hype, the "film" look that 24p is associated with.

Just like vendors selling their wares claiming "hollywood" like results.

You can, however, "emulate" the look adjusting colors, using 24p, etc. Lots of tricks and tools for that.

Spot|DSE wrote on 12/22/2003, 9:38 AM

Amen. Film-look is just film-like.
Vegas has several approaches to blending fields, using two tracks is one of the methods I present in the book. Simply rendering a 60i project to 24p, and blending the fields isn't going to be a film-like look. It will have a cadence of film, but that's it. Then there is color, gamma, blur, contrast, and a host of other filters that may be applied to more closely match film. But at the end of the day, nothing looks like film except film. Magic Bullet, BigFX, DV Film Maker, they can only approach this look.
Shooting like film is as important as post processing, if not moreso.
I just finished a tutorial on some of this for Vegas, watch for it soon.