Hey cooks! up the spoons!

FuTz wrote on 6/3/2002, 10:06 PM
Talking about how getting rid of borders, picture zooming, etc... that reminded me having read "film look" receipes on this forum.
Do you have any? I tried something last week-end, but would be curious about what you all think about this. What are your preferences about the overall picture quality/ texture/ finish ?
Like, applying a little gaussina blur, then a SMALL dab of "grain" from the film effects filters, and playing with color curves, hues, contrast, etc.... ????
You play with that?

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kkolbo wrote on 6/4/2002, 1:34 PM
The number one thing I have found to get that film look is the lighting during shooting. I have found that I can manipulate the contrast and all easiest at that point. The more I pay attention to the soft light and the fills the more I get film like looks.

K
SonyEPM wrote on 6/4/2002, 1:56 PM
ftp://porker.sonicfoundry.com/

username: dude
password: sweet
folder: Sample projects

download the folder "Intercutting film and video" to your local drive, read the word doc and then run the sample project. Hope it helps-
FuTz wrote on 6/4/2002, 2:55 PM
I did it; seems great, I'm eager to try that ! Especially since I mostly have documentary footage so everything about "lightning conditions" is uncontrollable most of the times (thanks Kkolbo; I was a little non-precise about that!). That seems to be exactly what I was looking for; just a simple solution to "finish" the output look... I'll give you news about that.
tserface wrote on 6/4/2002, 4:56 PM
If you are looking for something esoteric, the new plug-in library has a film look filter that does lots of cool things. It's mostly for artsy sorts of effects, but it is a fun plug-in when you want something obvious.

Tom
FuTz wrote on 6/4/2002, 6:52 PM
tserface: You mean, the film effects plug-in in VV3?
FuTz wrote on 6/4/2002, 9:47 PM
EPM: and if I change the frame rate (23,976) to something else, will it have an effect on the "frequency" of the cadence created by this prop change? Will it bust something? In other words, is it possible to get this "24fps feeling" but with a more stable, or fluid "flicker movement"?
tserface wrote on 6/5/2002, 3:23 AM
You're right. It was a film grain effect that came with the plug-in. Sorry, it's hard to remember what came from where these days. :)

Tom
SonyDennis wrote on 6/5/2002, 9:43 AM
Sure, you can change the 23.976 to other frame rate, the rest of the recipe stays the same. 23.976 is 4/5 of 29.97, just as 24 is 4/5 of 30. For doing the reverse of 3:2 pulldown, 23.976 is the rate you want to use.

If you go too slow, it will get pretty jumpy, you might want to turn on motion blur to smooth it out.

The goal of the tutorial was to give the film look to something shot on video, so that it intercuts with stuff shot on film without looking out of place.

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FuTz wrote on 6/5/2002, 6:03 PM
tserface: yeah, this grain. I like to tune it to ,200/,300 just to blur a little bit. Hee hee, a first step of dust on the carpet..! The "flicker" can be used to trigger something else , I got to make lots more "checkup-latch'it'off" here... but so far, it can switch the "glow" effect quite a good punchy way so can be used for a "right moment" . Sure it won't fit everywhere in a corporative video... I don't use much of the scratches, dust debris, hair, botches, etc... Just the grain for the moment. I tend to "equalise" a lot with color balance along with cont-bright filter... Do you have to make lots of corrections when you work with VV? In your field, I mean... And thanks for the answer, for a moment I thought I was missing something like a whole rack of effects to get from somewhere for free, a new Windows free plug-in or something like this...


Sonic"x"... ... this is a really good way to get some "film mood" I was looking for here, this flicker trick is the most "convincing" and enjoyable settings-to-modify discovery I made for the last weeksss... I figured out about the "matching" goal here and this sure was just one more reason to look at the way you did things in this particular place; it was clear you already had figured a few things out just doing this match between the 2 formats. heh ehh eeh !... I'll have a good time with this! I can feel it!

This forum's definitely a great place to get info and occasionnaly see things others do
Cheers ! *:)=(======I:. .. . .... .