Is there an FCP plugin out there which can change a video still to a drawing?

[Dave Davin]

Hi Ian

You could try using Red Giants Toonit plugin. Won’t have the same effect as above but might get you close enough depending on what you are trying to achieve.

Dave

Dave Davin
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[Ian Williams]

Looks good, although expensive (the film is independant, and made on a shoestring). Anyone know of any others? Also, I have After Effects – is there anything in that?

[Andrew Rendell]

I’d export a still of the appropriate frame then open that in Photoshop (or Gimp or whatever photo editing software you’ve got) and use the “artistic” filters in that to get the look (and probably a couple of versions so that you can dissolve between them for a bit of an animated/drawing in progress feel). Then import back into FCP…

[Ian Williams]

Yeah, I was just trying that now. Just created several pictures with stronger settings each time. Works quite well. Thanks!

[Mark Suszko]

I have an older, free copy of Synthetik Studio Artist that can do this wonderfully, with stills or video.

[Bernard Newnham]

I just tried out the Toonit plugin. It took 3 minutes to render a 1 second clip on my reasonably fast machine. Looks pretty good, but as it costs $399 I probably won’t be buying it. The Photoshop idea seems the sensible way to go.

bernie

[Bret Williams]

After Effects Cartoon filter does exactly what you want. Or pretty close.

[Mark Suszko]

Bernard, you can record your actions as you apply the filters that get the effect you like, save the action, and apply it as a batch action to an entire folder of stills to treat whole video sections that way.

[Jonathan Ziegler]

Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but there’s this tutorial from Creative Cow: https://library.creativecow.net/mize_rob/AE-Sketching/1 (After Effects)

I didn’t see a similar one for Motion, but I think this could be adapted for Photoshop (CSx Extended) or Motion, too.

This one looks a bit more comprehensive, but, again, for AE (not sure if you have AE):

https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/discover-how-to-recreate-the-sherlock-holmes-end-credits-effect/ – note: the sample is the 1st video and the 2nd is the actual tut.

Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293

[Shane Ross]

Look at the GRAPHIC NOVEL LOOK from sheffieldsoftworks.com:

https://sheffieldsoftworks.com/looks/gnl/index.html

These are samples of what you can do:

And this is cheap…like $50 or $80. Not sure which…been a while since I bought it.

Shane

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