sharper footage

[Jerry Hofmann]

Look in the “sharpen” set of filters in the Filters tab…

Also just color correcting footage and giving it a bit more contrast will help often times.

Jerry

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Mirella,
The Nattress “Chroma Smooth/Sharpen” is magic for any 420/411 footage.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Rafael Amador]

..works great in any 420/411 footage in a 422 sequence. And much better if is a 10b sequence and rendered in High Precision YUV.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Jerry Hofmann]

Nattess plugins rule… always have.

Jerry

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[Elijah Lynn]

Natress articles and posts rule too! Although I get lost in them very quickly just reading one of his articles tells you he knows his stuff!

I still have to buy some Natress stuff (demos right now) but posts/threads like these take me closer and closer.

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Elihaj,
Don’t miss two very important articles of G. Nattress:
– Video Levels in FC Pro
– Chroma Sampling in FCP.
There are fundamental. You can find them in the LAFCUG or the Ken Stone web sites.
Graeme Nattres really knows a lot and he is a very friendly guy. He used to come to this forum quite often, but I guess now with the development of the RED he have no much time.
Any question you may have, jut post to him.
Cheers,
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Elijah Lynn]

Thanks Rafael,

I will take a look at those. Is Graeme involved directly with RED?

[Rafael Amador]

Yes. he has been working in RED since few years.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Michael Gissing]

Whilst I have the Nattress filters, I also recommend Lyric’s Masked Sharpen filter.

https://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/lyric-effects/masked-effects/index.html

It works much better than the FCP sharpen filter and can help soft shots without going too edgy.