Getting a "film"effect with video

Jessariah67 wrote on 7/29/2002, 3:21 PM

Is there any way to "fake" the depth and texture of film that anyone has figured out? I've been playing with blur & grain, but I'm not happy with it. (I know video is video and film is film -- I'm just shooting for a little more depth of field).

Thanks

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Erk wrote on 7/29/2002, 4:32 PM

I recommend you do a search in this forum; there's been some very interesting threads on this. I hope to try some of these techniques myself.

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Chienworks wrote on 7/29/2002, 5:02 PM

Depth of field is entirely dependant on the camera lens' focal length and aperature. It makes no difference whether it's film or video, except that video is somewhat more sensitive to light so the aperature may be smaller. Therefore in any given situation video will probably have a greater depth of field than film.

2me2u wrote on 7/29/2002, 7:11 PM

There is a setting in Video FX chain that has "Film Effects" I messed with some of them and look pretty decent. Just click the small square at the end of your event, and that will bring up the Video FX, if you don't have any FX's selected yet it will bring up the chain, just scroll over to film effects. If you already have FX's then in that FX window just click open up FX chain. Hope this helps.

drdespair wrote on 7/31/2002, 1:40 AM

When you are talking about depth I assume you are refering to depth of field, this is achived on a standard camera by zooming in on the subject and then manualy adjusting the focus (make shure the apparture is way open also) this is simple terms for it, if you have a pro camera you get much more control especialy if you have interchangable lenses. If you are talking just about filmlook, there are several software items out there that do different things, everything from making the field footage to progressive frame and color correction. I use a software called DVFilm Maker which takes field footage in my case PAL and created 25fps progressive video by working only on the motion areas this way you dont loose all the resolution and you dont need to do a field blend which can sometimes cause too much blur. Color correction is done in VV there are a ton of tools there. In addition there are several techniques for layering fields and blured layers in order to create the film glow. You can create a number of fairly belivable result by using a combination of techniques, but finaly you still need great lighting great photography, and good actors. And just a note here.. something I found interesting, in Japan high quality shot video is value more then film ;) because there they can understand the meaning of technology.

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