Advanced physical 8mm film effects in Vegas

[John Rofrano]

I would start with the Sony Film Effects plug-in. It can add Dust, Flicker, Hair, Jitter, & Scratches in addition to gain and Tint.

There are lots of countdown video clips at FotoSearch.com. Here is a projector audio clip. In all seriousness, it might help to learn how to use Google. (I found all of these in like 2 seconds)

~jr

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[Curtis Enlow]

You know, I’ve played with those and while they work well ‘on the fly’ I’ve found the simulated stutter, etc, still look…simulated. The stuttered from moves too smoothly. Although, I wonder if applying the effect and THEN converting to 24p wouldn’t make the motion jerkier?

I was thinking more along the lines of things like cropping or moving a frame in such a way as to actually make it jump up & down like when a projector misses sprocket holes and you actually see half the frame above and half the frame below momentarily divided in the screen. I suppose I could spend a whole day experimenting to try and emulate that, but was just hoping that maybe someone would share their experiences in how to actually do that and make it look real (or should that be reel?).

Also, the end-of-reel ‘bloom’ of partially exposed film. I guess one could simply animate the brightness or do a slow fade-to-white? But I get the feeling that still wouldn’t look real. Anyone try tricks like that? I imagine de-saturating the color at the same time would be an effect of end-of-reel overexposure?

Also, I would like to creat the pre-roll runner with the handwritten marker notes on clear film. I wonder if anyone has tried simulating that?

Thanks for the suggestion, though, I appreciate it.

Curtis

[John Frey]

Interesting – I have spent the last 27 years, among many other production services, transferring 8, Super8 and 16mm film to video. I see the things that you describe on a weekly basis. Now, with digital capture to a NLE, I spend quite a bit of time in CCing these files to mitigate these very effects. I know, shoot some 8mm film, transfer it to video, and, there you go! Just kidding – good luck.

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[Curtis Enlow]

I know, ironic, huh? All the advantages of digital video and we go through all this trouble trying to re-create a 60-year old media technology…

For anyone following this thread and doing similar work I found some excellent, FREE projector samples at freesound.org