TV look for video

[Chris Poisson]

So many ways to do this, including the resident filters in QuickTime Pro. But my favorite is the Nattress G film set, infinately adjustable and very good.

Have a wonderful day.

[Joel Peregrine]

Hi,

I’ve used this plugin for TV transition effects:

https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/dh_retrotv

Very easy to use from within FCP. Used at the beginning and end here:

https://tr.im/uX7e

[Duca Simone luchini]

Ok, but.. attention! I´m talkin about TV look and NOT Movie look…
About movie look there are many tutorials, topics, etc… but about TV look…
So, I hope that this plugin (Nattress G film set) will be good for my problem and non just for a Movie look…

Thank a lot!

[Kevin Monahan]

How about Stylize > Bad TV. Plenty of parameters to play with and comes with FCP and Motion.

Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Mark Suszko]

The Nattress and Digital Heaven filters work great.

However.

This is just a guess, but I think what the original poster is getting at is something he didn’t quite articulate, but it is really the “signature” look for TV before CCD sensors. And I’ve often wanted to find a plug in that imitates this look of plumbicons, saticons, or orthicon tube cameras creating the “black halo effect” around anything that’s too bright, like lights in the shot, or hot specular highlights off of shiny objects such as flashy woman’s jewelry.

The old tube image sensors would get over-saturated by the too-bright part of an image and turn black right at the edge of the hotspot, shading back to normal over about say twenty pixels, in a steady gradient.

I suppose a genius with Aftereffects could maybe write some kind of expression-based filter that picked those hot spots and applied a gradient around them in proportion to the size of the hot spot. It is beyond me to figure out how exactly to go about this. Most movie and Tv guys trying to fake historic video just rent an actual antique camera that still works (I guess there are a few collectors out in LA that rent these out) and just record the actual effect. But nothing says “60’s-early 70’s” like that black halo effect.

If you want to be *really* a stickler for the “tube camera look”, add a plug in that puts in those hideous tube burns that were so easy to get and so hard to remove:-)

[Duca Simone luchini]

Goods considerations,
you have to know, infact, that my clips are in DV PAL…
Ok, many thanks to everybody.
I´ll try yours plugins!

🙂

[Steve Eisen]

Core Melt’s Old TV
BCC Damaged TV

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Duca Simone luchini]

Hy Steve,
where can I find those plugins (and Info about..)?
THX!

[Mitch Jordan]

If you have After Effects, Aharon Robinowitz has some great tutorials on the Cow. Check out:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/old_tv.php for an old tv look.

[Steve Eisen]

Very simple, Coremelt.com and Borisfx.com

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group