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Jsnkc wrote on 10/23/2003, 2:35 PM
Do you mean 24fps film or like old film with scratches and dust and sepia tone??
BrianStanding wrote on 10/23/2003, 4:20 PM
Sure, shoot on film, transfer to video.
John_Cline wrote on 10/23/2003, 4:39 PM
The absolute best software I have found for making video look like film is "FilmFX" by a company named "BigFX." I have completely fooled a bunch of "film snobs" with the results.

I currently use it in After Effects, but It was rumoured a while back that Aaron (the author of FilmFX) was working on a plugin version for Vegas. This would be terrific, you could just add it as an effect to the master video bus and render it up. Perhaps if more Vegas users would go to his web site and ask for the Vegas plugin, he might get it done sooner.

BigFX Web Site

John
johnmeyer wrote on 10/23/2003, 4:43 PM
DIscussed many times on this forum. Search for "film look" "film effects" etc.

Most threads on the subject are very long, with lots of strong opinions, mostly people telling you why you're crazy to even try to do something like this. Here's a link to one of the more recent threads:

Film look 1

Here's another:

Film look 2

and another:

Filme look 3
johnmeyer wrote on 10/23/2003, 4:59 PM
John_Cline,

BigFX looks very interesting. I left them a note asking if they plan a Vegas version, and to notify this forum if they release one. Unfortunately, they didn't seem to have any clips to download. It would be interesting to see the results of the plugin.
John_Cline wrote on 10/23/2003, 8:16 PM
John,

If you happen to live in the U.S., you can see the results of FilmFX every Sunday afternoon on NBC or TNT, depending on who's covering the race that weekend. Every edited feature piece on the NASCAR "Countdown to Green" pre-race show is run through FilmFX. All of the pieces are shot on video, mostly DigBeta but some DV, and processed through FilmFX as the last step. Since it's NASCAR, the effect is sometimes overdone to give the piece a particular "look", but FilmFX is capable of a subtle film effect all the way to outrageous.

John
madgenius wrote on 10/23/2003, 10:50 PM
there's a ton of factors that go into creating a film look. Source, lighting, style, color, and others. Some confuse film like motion with the look (24 fps)

Remember, films do not all have the same look. A common saying among my peers I always hear is "it is what it is". There's a reason they use millions of dollars worth of equipment to get the "looks". If it could be done for less then why spend the money in the first place?

-S
1charmedlife wrote on 10/24/2003, 5:43 PM
Hi All,

We've also had a lot of success with a feature I produced, shot on PAL MiniDV - and one of the pioneer feature films to use the Magic Bullet process (also used on one of the first Magic Bullet shorts, "Sweet") - which is also now availabe as an After Effects plug in - though I'm not sure what their intent is for making a Vegas plug in. We've screened our film on screens all the way up to a 60 foot screen at ArcLight, and have been very pleased with the results.

However, in reality, the film LOOK, is really something more achieved by your own sense of framing, and lighting (e.g. TALENT), than it is by a filter - though your filters will go a long way if you know what they do before you shoot:)

Good luck:)