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CCTV footage effect using View finder, Blink and timecode print
Hi guys
I have just created a stop motion clip and i am now trying to create some parts of it with a CCTV footage effect. So far i have desaturated the colour, added viewfinder to get the border and blink which has Rec. blinking. I would like to add a fake date and time moving so basically i would like at the bottom of my screen to say for eg 15/03/2008 hh:mm:ss with the secs moving.
is this possible to set up? my cctv effect is looking quite basic and id love to give it a more professional look. If anyone knows any tutorials or plugins that will generate it please add link.
thanks for replies
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[Alison Francis] “my cctv effect is looking quite basic and id love to give it a more professional look.”
Honestly? Get rid of the Rec blink and viewfinder border. That isn’t what a professional CCTV looks like, that’s what a camera viewfinder might have.
Make sure to make your footage is interlaced if you shot progressive, and dumb down the resolution. The best way to do this is to export the movie, encode a low res quicktime (320×240 at a low bit rate and half the frame rate, something like offline rt), then bring that back in, scale up and render to further reduce the quality. DO you need an infrared look, like the footage is all green or is this just normal day light stuff?
date and time is a good idea and you can use the timecode generator for that. Just remove the black border the it defaults to.
Also, now that I think about it, check this out:
https://cowcast.creativecow.net/final_cut_pro/index.html
Look for the TV Screen tutorials.
Jeremy
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Make sure to make your footage is interlaced if you shot progressive, and dumb down the resolution.
hi thanks for your reply, i shot the animation using a digital camera to make it a stop motion animation. The picturea are high definition with images sizes 3648×2048 pixels. Is is still possible to dumb down resoulution? I forgot to add that i also used bad tv effect and modified it to already have some faint lines and to make it abit more pixelated.
so with the timecode generator, can u seet any time with it? how would i add the date?
im about to check out that link you gave me. thanks
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