• Adobe After Effects

  making game footage look great

  Posted by Jan Van den bossche on June 3, 2009 at 7:50 am

  For a commercial I have “game footage” that is really bad quality (dv composite). What is the best way to make it look great ? I have the presets from Videocpilot but that doesn’t seem to help.

  thanks

  Jan VdB

  Paul Benson replied 16 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Darby Edelen

  June 3, 2009 at 10:04 pm

  Another issue could be misrepresentation. I’d like to say you could throw on a nice S-Curve and create some light blooming effects, but is that the way the game really looks? If this is a commercial for the game then limited color correction is probably okay, but anything far beyond that could effectively be perceived as lying to your audience.

  This depends a lot on the use of the footage.

  I also agree with Dave, get better footage.

  Darby Edelen
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  Paul Benson

  June 5, 2009 at 4:54 pm

  You could go the opposite way and make it look ‘bad’. Make it b/w or sepia and/or add effects to make it look like archival footage.

  Pauley

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