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Adding ‘Moving’ Filters to Stills
Apologies for the newbie question but I’ve been experimenting with this all day and haven’t cracked it – I’m sure the answer is simple but it’s eluding me.
Anyway, I’m trying to create an old 1920’s film effect and have created some Intertitle cards in Photoshop to add the dialogue. I want to add the Nattress Old Projector filter to the still to create the sense of movement and damage.
However, if I add the Photoshop file to the timeline and add the filter to it, the filter doesn’t move back and forth, and it just looks like a streaky still (which I suppose it is!)
I tried to create a QT film of the still, but that just created a ‘blink and you’d miss it’ QT file, and I can’t find a way to set a time on it.
Help!
Many thanks for any replies.
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I found the answer – and it was straightforward.
Imported the Photoshop file into LiveType, and rendered the movie from there.
Pull it into the FCP timeline and add the Old Projector filter – job done!
The customer wanting the film to look like a 1920’s scratched film makes the job so much easier!
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Somewhere I have the old Aurorix Aged Film filter from DigiEffects. It works(ed?) in FCP and I use to use it all the time. Adds scratches, hair, grain, dust, discoloration, jitter, etc. You can randomize or control each aspect infinitely.
The hair is just the coolest. Nothing like a piece of hair caught in the projector during transfer.
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Just for future reference, you can do your move on the still shot, then nest the item and apply the filter to the nested edit. Option clicking on the nested edit allows you to edit the filter parameters in the viewer. This method will help you avoid rendering out a quicktime and allow you to still edit the original move on the still.
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