How to get the CSI, or glowing glamour fashion look

[Colin Mcquillan]

are you talking about certain aspects of the video glowing,, or lightbars scanning the video??

I understand CSI editors use the saphire plug-in sets, not sure how frequently but take a look at their lighting effect package.

https://www.genarts.com/sapphire-ae.html

A great set of plugs,, but you gotta pay for them,, about $1700us for the complete set,, or $599 for each box seperate..

there is a good free plug from riverrock studios out there called “chromatic glow.” I use this one quite frequently in combination with a couple other effects for some interesting results.

https://www.riverrockstudios.com/riverrock/pages/FCP.html

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Russell Lasson]

Try something like this an see if it’s what you’re talking about.

1. First, apply your color correction and try to get the basic color the way you want it. I’ve seen a lot of with a blue tint that looks nice. Kind of dark and desaturated blue. Play with it.

2. Duplicate your clip and above the current clip

3. Add the luma key and play with it until you only keep the hightlights

4. Change the duplicated clip (the one on top) composite mode to add (right click, composite mode, add)

5. Add a blur to the duplicated clip and blur to taste

Is this close to what you where looking for?

or….

Take it to a colorist.

-Russ

[Colin Mcquillan]

If your talking about light bars and such,, take a look that this thread.. they are talking about making the “glass scan look” but alter the “glass” layers peramaters and edge feather so on.. can yield nice results

https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3019454&#3019454

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Keith Mann]

The lumn keying is close, but the whites blow out.

The still guys do it with just the red channel – so it works with the skin tones, but not white objects.

Do you know if there is any way to manipulate just the red channel in FCP?

[Michael Sacci]

Magic Bullet has a CSI look in their LookSuite.

[Russell Lasson]

I just played with a clip for a little bit in FCP and came up with some really fun looks. As mannfilmz said if you use just the highlights, they’ll start clipping. So try pulling different chroma and luma values and see what you like. It all depends of the show.

I’ve never really like the results of the color corrector in FCP. It always seems to look like someone played with the color. I really only use it for minor adjustments. You might look into Colorista by Magic Bullet. I’ve heard good things about it and it’s only $200.

-Russ