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Improving Film transferred to video.
Hey all,
So, I have been capturing old family movies shot on super 8mm using a black box that you project the film into one end, and then take a camera and film the footage on another end of the box.
I have been capturing right into FCP via Canon XL-1’s firewire, so its not going to tape first.
I am wondering, are there ways in FCP, Color, or After Effects (CS3) to improve the image quality? Such as reducing the flicker from the film, or sharpening the image?
I was actually blown away by the power of the “sharpen” effect in FCP that actually sharpened the image that was a bit out of focus.
Any tips for getting film into video to look it’s best??
thanks!
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3 Replies
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AE has a pretty good sharpen, but if you need to remove heavy shutter blur then try reelsmart motion blur set at negative 2(-2.00) It will do an intelligent sharpen by comparing surrounding frames.
Deflicker with a free flicker remover
https://compression.ru/video/deflicker/index_en.html.or buy red giants film fix or Tinderbox deflicker. google for other deflicker software/plugins.
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Thanks man, I’ll give that a try!
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Ae has another special sharpen filter called Unsharp which contrasts the colors in a more organic way. Just thought it might be a useful tip.
https://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/
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