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Glamour…
What plugins or mix of effects (or plugins) would you use to give a glamourous look to your video? I tried various degrees and mixes of blurring, glowing out, and blowing highlights, but I cant get to something satisfactory…
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To me, glamour is all about lighting and has very little to do with plug-ins. I usually will light with a prominent hair light to give a glow/halo to the edge of the talent, then use a usual soft key source but I will also fill in with a white card/flex fill on the ground with a 650 watt fresnel bounced into it from overhead to fill in underneath the chin and eye sockets.
Also the key should be very frontal, giving a soft, even glow to the face. An eyelight helps. As far as filters, anything that simulates a black or white pro mist, or better yet, you can actually shoot with the filter on the camera although then you are stuck with that one look.
I suppose if you want to get cheesy, a star filter would look glamourous?
If the video was lit moody with a lot of shadows or if it was badly lit, forget about it, you will never make it look glamourous no matter how you post process it.
Best,
Dan
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Dan is right on about lighting. Make sure that the light is right.
I shoot our talent on BetaSP. Then in post on FCP, I place the clip on track one, color correct it and then park play line on clip. Make sure the track is selected and F12 Superimpose. Add Gaussian Blur 12 pixels, for soft look right click on top clip set composite to softlight. For blowout look, set to add.
b
Bob Vick sr promo guy @ ch3 & CW wwmt tv, kalamazoo, mi
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I am very fond of the Nattress Film Effects filters for this sort of thing- great results & very cheap. The G Film – Soft Diffusion would be a good choice- you should be able to dial in a great look with it. As the others have said, you do need to start with good lighting.
Chris Paul
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Not to blow my own trumpet, but try the free plug in I wrote called face light. It’s on my website along witha free vignette filter.
Facelight is based on the LOTR ‘elves’ grading look and makes people prettier without looking trashy IMHO.
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i’ll endorse Marcus’ plugins as being two of the most useful additions to Colour Correction within FCP.
they’re in MY favourites folder 🙂(i was just passing and thought i’d drop in…
apologies for a very late addition to this thread)cheers,
nick
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