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Film Grain
Hi,
I’m currently working on my first project containing composited elements. The plate is of course live action, it’s a simple shot of a large open field. I am compositing a large water tower into the field.
I shot this project on 35mm film. I shot the tower separately and was planning on taking a single frame of the tower and removing the labels on it in photoshop. Then I was going to bring it into after effects and composite it into the field. Obviously I need to add grain so that it doesn’t have the appearance of a still image.
My question is if the still image of the tower already contains grain, since it was was captured on film, how can I add grain? Certainly this will make the still image look real and live action, but will it then be twice as grainy? How do I go about adding moving grain on top of the still image which already is grainy by nature?
Thank you,
-Dan
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1 Reply
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Remove the grain from the still capture. Insert grain using AE’s Noise>Add Grain plugin. Here’s a https://provideocoalition.com/index.php/motiongraphicsvizfx/story/grain_matching/ tutorial on matching grain for CG and live footage.
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