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Film look for HD
Has anyone had any success using the Nattress ‘film look’ plug-ins?
I am grading a low-bugdet feature at the moment, shot HDcam and I’m looking for a stylisation technique to make the images look a little more ‘film’ and a little less ‘digital’.
The film was shot on Sony HDCAM, 1920×1080 at 24fps. We’re working in the Blackmagic HD 1080p24 10-bit codec in a 4:2:2 colour space. We’re aiming for an HD (16:9) delivery, letterboxed to 2.35:1, outputting to HDCAM SR.
I am working in Apple’s Color to do the grade (and have posted separately on that forum in regards to techniques using Color), but just wondered if anyone has any techniques that have worked for them in the past using FCP or any third party plug-ins?
There is an example of how the footage looks below. Basically I’d like to reduce the amount of digital noise that is in the background of a lot of the shots as well as give the over-all look of the footage a more ‘glassy’, smooth look as opposed to the rougher, pixelated digital look of the images as they are now:
https://www.petaridley.com/Downloads/RIWAF_Part_3_tes-render_prores.mov
Thanks for any help,
Penny
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4 Replies
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Try Video Purifier. It’s not really a “filmlook” filter, it’s just a really nice denoiser that doesn’t simply blur or defocus. You can then grade in addition to add contrast, etc. to give it a filmlook.
David Roth Weiss
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take a look at Magic Bullet Looks, it is what you want.
There is no way anyone can say, do this and that for you video.
[Penelope Wylder] “as well as give the over-all look of the footage a more ‘glassy’, smooth look as opposed to the rougher,”
I believe that is done in production, such as the guy at the mic, the shot is soft and underexposed. But this doesn’t scream video either, you just need to get everyones expectations inline. Go the best you can, with what you have. I think what you have is a good start. Magic Bullet can give you access to different looks that can be tweaked to your liking.my 2 cents
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Some other stuff you can add to look more like film and less like video:
Gate shake
Gate weave
Hair in gate
Torn sprocket holes
Jail bar scratches
Burnt frame from being stilled too long, or bad sprocket
Ugly splices
Break (best if in mid-frame and not at a splice)
Light leaks (ok that’s been done to death)
Bad frame registration
Un-blooped optical track splicesAny, or all of these will make video seem a lot more like beloved film!
Scott Sheriff
Director
SST Digital Media
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You might also try adding our ReelSmart Motion Blur. It simulates a longer shutter speed by tracking each pixel from frame to frame and adding motion blur based on the movement between frames. Often what makes something look like video and less like film is the fact that the shutter speed is higher than it might be when shooting film.
Why don’t you try the demo in our Downloads section for RSMB: https://www.revisionfx.com/products/rsmb/
Pete Litwinowicz
RE:Vision Effects, Inc.
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