Premier Pro 1.5 How to lose home video look for a slick movie appearance!!!!!

[Matthias]

(basic warm max) is one of the settings that works all around if you tweek the attributes a little bit. It brings out the color alot and makes it feel more movie like.

[Craig Howard]

Stefan.

You appear to be looking for one solution to fit all your issues. Ironically this is called a “magic bullet” but not necessarily the MB plug ins.

The MBs are fantastic (and slow) but in the instance of your varied framerate clips you may need something like Twixtor (or After Effects)to do this part of your work. They both do a great job.

With MBs you can not just apply the effect (preset or otherwise) to a whole bunch of clips and expect them all to “smooth” out. Each clip will respond differently and it depends on the original contrast/color/lighting, luma, chroma etc…

MBs can do an infinite number of looks and effects but they work best with a “levelled out” clip as the original.

BTW Vers 2 MB with a suitable graphics card are considerably faster than earlier versions.

As the others say – it is in the original shoot where the professional “look” comes from.

Craig
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Stefan W]

someone made mention of reducing my ntsc 29 frames to pal 24 to get a smoother look, is this true or possible??

Any magic bullet come to mind that very lightly brings out more greens and makes things more vivid say as if you used an orange type filter (which I didn’t on the camera haha). I liked the MB bloom.

thanks – Stefan

[Stefan W]

I’ll try that …i’ll my footage is outside so people are right that it’s hard to find one that would work with all. I just want something very subtle making the whole film uniform.

[Matthias]

Yeah def. go with the MB (basic warm max) with outdoor shots it will make a huge dif.

[Tim Kolb]

You may want to try deinterlacing the footage that isn’t fast or slo-mo…it might achieve a bit of what you’re looking for…some of that hyper-smoothness in the motion will go away.

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Stefan W]

I never thought of that…thanks

[Craig Howard]

Seeing you want a MB look that specific try ‘Big Country” a new one in Vers 2.but you do know that you can design your own look specific to your own footage in MB. Get creative and do not rely on someone elses preset. (Too Easy)

[Derrick]

stefan,

I think a plug in might not be your only answer.

Use the color corrector, then get all the white balance the same, use curves *Try an S-Shaped Curve to help contrast), and levels to make all your footage exposure, etc… look the same across scenes.

When your done with that, get creative with the color corrector and create a look for yourself.

Regarding motion, something like Magic Bullet, or check film effects from http://www.nattress.com (I’m not sure if this is PC and MAC) haven’t used it, but it is very affordable.

Then you gotta pay lots of attention to ligthing and CAMERA MOVES, dollies, cranes, etc… help a lot to create a film look. check out https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.us/ that teaches a lot about the subject.

I want to get this product as soon as I can afford it! Living in South Africa does make USA Dollar products very expensive!

Anyway, hopes this help you a bit?

Thanks,
Derrick