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‘Soften’ Filter?
I’m looking for the filter or group of filters that softens an image for stuff like slow-mo wedding highlight sequences. I couldn’t find anything that directly creates what I’m looking for, so I wondered if there may be a plug-in or process of applying filters to achieve the desired effect. Is it simply a blur filter with increased brightness? The only problem with that is if the image is already slighly blurred because it’s a shot of someone moving. Then it becomes overly blurry and does not achieve the desired effect.
Another question, related to slow-mo; My slow-mo clips seem to be too blurry. I don’t usually slow them down much below 60% and leave the ‘frame blend’ option selected. Is frame blending neccessary above 40-50%? Is it better to render the slow-mo clips in PPro or After Effects?
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GenArts Sapphire is a great plug-in for PPRO and AE that has a lot of “soft focus” and similar blur effects that look great with very little tweaking required, however, I still like modifying nearly every effect so that it is not too “cookie cutter” and look exactly like everyone else’s footage.
Another tip is to try this: simply create a new sequence (it can be “nested” within your existing project as an experiment to see if you like the results before commiting to the changes) copy the track(s) you want to the new sequence, add the gaussian blur to it at approximately 38 or so, use around a 50% opacity and add the alpha glow filter found in the “stylize” folder of video effects. Play with the various levels to create the look you are after. It can also look good applying a B&w filter.
I hope that helps you out a bit!
Scot Sheely
Owner / Producer
IMG – Interactive Media Gurus
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Thank you Scot! I’ll try that. I thought there must be a way to do it through filters, without plug-ins, but wasn’t sure of the combination. I wondered if it might be an After Effects feature, but this sounds do-able.
Thanks.
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