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Best Strategy for Improving Image Quality
Hello all,
I was hoping some of the veterans out there could describe any formulas they use to improve the image quality of the footage they edit. What tricks do you use to give your average video clip some umphf? I’ve been playing around with duplicating clips and blending them (Screen or Overlay) with a blur effect or reduced chroma, reducing opacity, etc. – all to greater or lessor success. My inspiration comes from a wedding production company called “StillMotion” up in Canada;
I learned of this site last week and the video they show is extremely impressive. The images they get out of their Canon XH-A1s are stunning and now having seen their footage I’ve been motivated to start working on finessing my own. I’d love to know if anyone out there knows how they get their “look” and/or I’d be curious to know what you all like to try in the footage-finessing realm.
Tim
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I would check out books and articles on color correction.
Something else that may help is this tutorial that I created a while back:
Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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Many of those wedding and event shooters are either quite open about their techniques or totally closed. Take a few hours to google the event shooters organizations and trade shows. You can probably find online tutorials for many techniques. There is a magazine, EVENT DV, that caters to these professionals and their site markets training DVDs as well as having links to online freebies.
Remember that everything these artists do changes freakishly when their clients view the fabulous work on crappy TV sets or improperly configured HD rigs.
bogiesan
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