BBC “Sherlock Holmes”

[Gary Huff]

[Dave Gage] “There is an effect in the opening credits that looks like the “Miniaturize plugin” from FCPEffects which appears to be only available for FCP X.”

Though you can also achieve that effect in-camera as well. It was edited in AVID.

[Bob Woodhead]

It’s called tilt-shift usually. There’s at least one plugin for it, or as Gary sez, lenses as well. Love the show, BTW.

[Michael Phillips]

Love the show as well. You can get a tilt/shift in Avid via Red Giant Looks.Also, Titles and end credits are usually designed by a graphics and effects team and dropped in a elements so it may have been done in a different system altogether.

Michael

[Chris Kenny]

[Dave Gage] “I finally got around to watching the 3 seasons of this show on NetFlix. Does anyone know what NLE was used to edit the shows? There is an effect in the opening credits that looks like the “Miniaturize plugin” from FCPEffects which appears to be only available for FCP X.”

Very unlikely a show at that budget level would be doing visual effects in any ‘offline’ NLE; any visual effects you’re seeing were likely created in After Effects, Nuke, or a DI system like Resolve or Baselight. Most of these tools could create a tilt-shift effect like that without a plugin; selective defocus is quite easy with power windows in Resolve, for instance.

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[Bill Dewald]

BBC Sherlock was released in 2010. FCPX was released in 2011.

Nice try.

[Craig Alan]

FCP X has the ability to go back in time. This was foreshadowed with Steve Job’s RDF (reality distortion field) and in FCP X’s ability to update old libraries.

Love that series!

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[Gary Huff]

I would be interested to do if that was a post effect or in-camera with a tilt-shift lens.

[Dave Gage]

[Craig Alan] “FCP X has the ability to go back in time.”
That’s what I was going to say.

[Craig Alan] “Love that series!”
I’m now on my way to seeing each of the 9 shows two times through each. Except for the “Dominatrix” show, I’ve been able to show the episodes to my kids (boys 9 and 11) and it’s their new favorite thing to watch. (You can only see the “Avengers” movie so many times.) It’s great schooling for them on the art of deduction.

[Dave Gage]

Cool.

I really like the editing style and the look for this series. I did an Internet search before I posted here, but didn’t find much. I’d love to see a behind the scenes of filming and editing. Via Netflix for Season 3, there are three short behind the scenes episodes but they deal primarily with the show characters vs. technical aspects of the shoot.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dennis Radeke]

If you search for tutorials for tilt-shift with After Effects and Photoshop, you will see a bunch. In Photoshop, it’s now a filter and pretty easy to apply. Just take a video in, convert it to a smart object and apply the tilt-shift.

It is a nice effect.