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boomhower wrote on 4/17/2005, 11:46 AM
I believe those scenes are basically "raw" in that no effects or correction (color etc) have been applied and that is why you notice such a difference. Depending on what you are doing and how much correction you apply, your raw footage compared to your final product may have a similar effect. You could just use your raw footage for the behind the scenes/deleted scenes portion of your DVD and get the effect you are looking for. Otherwise there are plenty of plugins that will allow you to play around with the brightness etc.....

Another thought is have someone operate a camera that is strictly for behind the scenes shots.....if you are looking for a dramatic difference in the look, have them use a different camera type from the main cams. I was on a shoot recently where they had a guy roaming with a small 3chip camera for the behind the scenes type stuff. Doing this "with" the camera saves you alot of time in post trying to achieve it.

Hope that helps

Keith
filmy wrote on 4/17/2005, 3:53 PM
yeah - what boomhower said. Most of the deleted stuff is deleted before final cut and before final posting. In some rare cases deleted scenes are cut after everything is done - such as the orginal ending to The Shining that was cut out of the release print after the first showing at the Ziegfield Theatre in Manhattan. It was also cut out of the lab negative(s) after that as well.

For some of the stuff I have worked on the deleted stuff was actually taken from the Video assist. For the feature I just finished cutting and mixing all the outakes were dumped to mini-DV prior to any mixing or final color correction. This is how they would appear on the DVD as well...unmixed and un-color corrected.

Keep in mind this is not counting any of the DVD's that contain "restored" or "remastered" material.