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  Matching dv compression

  Posted by Jeff Russell on December 10, 2008 at 3:04 pm

  Hey Everybody,

  I’m working on a project where I’m putting nice, clean, sharp graphics into some dv footage and it looks very cg. If I were working with film I would add some grain so it looks like it’s in the scene, but the footage isn’t grainy, it has horrible dv compression. Does anyone know a way to match dv compression or some way to fake it? The footage was shot DVC PRO.

  Jeff Russell replied 17 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Andrew Bardusk

  December 10, 2008 at 6:25 pm

  If you have Saphire plugins “Jpeg Damage” would be worth considering.

  Another thing you can do is create a gray solid, with all color and saturation set to 0 and brightness set to 50(if I recall correctly).

  Then put a “noise” effect, turn it to 100 percent.

  Then set you gray solid do “overlay”

  Then adjust the opacity, and scale to make it look like big chunky compression.
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  Jeff Russell

  December 11, 2008 at 5:26 pm

  Thanks. I’ll give that a try.

  Jeff

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