Make Dv looke good

[James Burke]

You could always give it a film look, adding grain and the FluidFilm Timewarp.

[Accountfrozen_needs_realname]

In what ways do you think it doesn’t look good?

If lighting was not what you wanted, that will be harder to repair. If it just has that real “video” look – that is usually the deeper depth of field video provides unless you work to avoid it when shooting.

Does the video look “cool” overall as far as color temp goes? A little careful color correction to warm it up may help.

Ultimately, unless you take steps to change the look when you shoot it, video looks like – well, video.

Jon
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[Murforama]

Any chance you can post a link to the commercial on the internet so feedback can be a little more constructive?

DV’s main problem (and there are many) is that it is a 4:1:1 format and you’re losing quite a bit of color information. Color correction would be the first place to start but it is difficult if not impossible to recreate what wasn’t there in the first place.

That being said I’ve seen a number of commericals shot in DV and creatively speaking they look quite nice. Usually, they are filmlooked and color-corrected to death with lots of fast cuts and time-remapping. From the sound of it you’re commercial is already cut, now it’s just a matter of resolution – would that be an accurate assessment?

Murf

[Ka_paw]

Thanks for the help.
Ok I will try to go for film look and some gentle color correction and give the picture a bit more warmth. I guess the reel lesson here is. Not to save money on renting a small camera 🙂

[Annaël Beauchemin]

What I do to get a “richier” look make an S curve in the Master section of the curve tab to boost the contrast while retaining most of the detail, and then boost saturation a biit to. If the color temperature and skin tone isn’t right, you should fix it too.

I then add a soft focus-like effect using the Paint Effect. I’m not at the job so I can’t send you a bin with the effects but it’s pretty simple:
You add the Paint Effect over the Color Correction, drag a square taht covers the whole screen, switch the mode to Blur and lower the effect strenght to something like 17. I don’t know why, but the blur mode in the paint effects is more like a glow and less like a typical box blur. This is pretty good at smoothing the harshness of video.

Good luck