Angus Mackay
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Hi Jay,
The Foundrys Bad Tv
https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/pkg_plugins.aspx?ui=5DD2A940-1D4B-4884-AE22-3FCC03D7530A
and Digieffects Video Malfunction
https://www.digieffects.com/products.shtml#DELIRIUM
would both fit the bill. The caveat however is that they are both part of fairly large filter collections and mean a greater outlay, If it was my wonga I’d go with The Foundry
HTH
Angus
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Hi again musman,
I think AE would do an acceptable job but the workflow would be a nightmare unless your film is VERY short. Seriously I’d make a couple of calls baout the hardware conversion thing, it really shouldn’t cost more than a couple of hundred dollars at the very most (if you shop around) and would save you a lot of pain and give you a top quality product
Angus
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Hi Filip
I take it Belgium is all digital tx then? in the uk we’ve managed to make a royal hash of the switch-over so the analogue signal still gets broadcast 4:3. 16:9 content broadcast in the analoge realm is normaly squished to 14:9 which is a horrible compromise that some engineers came up with because some viewers complained about the size of the black bars when they watched a fully letterboxed 16:9 image. meanwhile in the digital realm that exists alongside analogue, material is broadcast FHA16:9 and unsquished by our digital set-top-boxes. confused? you should be 😀
Angus
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Hi Matt,
In those visual circumstances you are almost always going to get some artifacting. But, I always use FK for deinterlacing (except on the rare ocations that I get DV material in which case I use Magic Bullet (because it has an excelent DV de-artifacter) FK is a really great plug and much quicker to render than any other de-interlacer, it’ll certainly slay the ancient CM on render times. If you do quite a lot of this kind of work it’s a no brainer
HTH
Angus
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Hi Mus man,
AE does a pretty decent job of this kind of thing but the best way to do it is to create your letterboxed version by running it through a hardware Aspect ratio convertor. Snell&Willcox and Leitch both make excelent ARCs and most decent medium sized Facilities should have one. FWIW I think you’d be way better mastering your rushes and programme on to anamorphic, it’ll make the material considerably better value from an archival point of view. Also (in the UK at least)most broadcasters have an ARC in transmission so if you supply the prog anamorphic it just gets “squished” in TX.
HTH
Angus
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Ok,
If you do an archive search of this forum using the terms bleach bypass and Rick Gerrard as the author you should find a pretty good recipe for producing that kind for look with the standard AE toolset. If you’ve got any kind of budget the best way to get that kind of look is with the Magic Bullit plug-ins, you’ll find them here
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com
HTH
Angus
If you can’t find Ricks original posting I’l try and post the instructions later
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Hi Dara
There are no in depth grading tutorials that I know of on the web, probably because grading is such a matter of taste. There are however colour correction tutorials including one right here at the cow by Barend which uses standard AE tools.
can you describe in more technical terms what you mean by a flamed look or post a link to an example? also tell us what version of AE your using (different versions have different tools, 6.5 pro for example has the color finesse plug-in that earlier versions lack)
Angus
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spot on Chris,
the AE tracker is still extremely poor, particularly given the length of time they’ve had to get it right. I’ve tried doing fairly straight forward tracking work in AE recently only to give up in fustration after a lot of wasted time. Commotion (an app that hasn’t been developed for three years now) nailed them all at the first time of asking! the AE tracker simply needs to be way better than it is at the moment.
Angus
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Hi Andreas,
you could tweek your colours using the curves filter, or if you have version 6.5 pro use the colour finnese filter for total control
Angus
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Woooeeee,
news of the day so far, if properly implemented (which no doubt it will be) this would at last address the weakest link in AE. It’ll be like AE and the sadly defunct Commotion rolled into one mighty app’. It’s shaping up to be an interesting couple of days. I never thought i’d say this but…. I wish I was in Las Vegas 🙂
Angus