What’s the best way to make footage black and white? Thoughts on stylizing it?

[Hope Holmesby]

Hi…
have no idea what kind of thing you are going for….however
what about something like this, sort of going for the HDR look…..

image controls: levels, hsv adjust, saturate –
sharpen; unsharp mask – these are the ones i usually use

Used below: sharpen, levels (made it lighter)

used below: or sharpen , levels (lighter), saturate (more color)

i did this is photoshop, but in fcp, you could use the filters for levels saturate, unsharp mask as mentioned.

or even just apply the unsharp mask default settings gives an amazing kind of look. (it is 500 when u apply it)

or here is one i tried actually in fcp:

used these setting for example:

can fool w the
image control;saturation settings and get a nice sepia look, or natural look
or more sharpen; unsharp mask for more hdr look,

or move radius for unsharp mask,

image controls: levels, hsv adjust, saturate –
sharpen; unsharp mask – these are the ones i usually use

or tint, levels (lighter), unsharp mask together can give an interesting effect

Good luck there.

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[Mark Suszko]

“The problem is that’s for FCPX. I’m running FCP7.”

That’s not a problem: it’s a message. 🙂

[Noam Osband]

Hope, this was insanely helpful. thanks so much!

[Noam Osband]

And, Mark, you know you’re a filmmaker when you laugh out loud at that comment. Indeed, I’m starting to edit a feature length doc in January and will be changing to a different NLE platform. Just not sure what. A different discussion for a different thread…

[Hope Holmesby]

Hi, Noam, glad it was useful… good luck on your doc

I have been helped so much by you all on this forum, glad i could contribute something (-:

Thanks for being one of the helpers for the forum.

however, now we see that you are moving to a new NLE…..?
good luck on that too…..

is it very interesting to me, too, to read what you, Mark and Craig said above…..

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Mac OS 10.9,
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2 La Cie external HDs 1 TB each;
After Effects CS5.5;
Sound Track Pro 3.0.1;
Final Cut Pro 7.0.3;
Compressor 3.5.3