[Duke Sweden]

Uh, yeah, I’ve since learned that about LUTs. I also knew about shutter speed and frame rate as well. My hypercritical eye still saw my footage as less than film like.

[Duke Sweden]

Hey, Adiya. Thanks for your advice. It reminded me about this thread. I figured out a little while ago that, just as you can’t do with a .jpg what you can do with a RAW file picture, the same holds true for h264 and RAW video. I’ve found a work flow that works for me, I color correct, adjust contrast, blacks and highlights (manually adjusting white balance instead of using AUTO really helped the look of my film as well) and then I apply a LUT called Cinematic 1 and tweak accordingly.

What also finally occurred to me was that I was describing my problem all wrong. What I really wanted to know was how to make my footage look like film as opposed to the dreaded “Soap Opera Effect”. THAT was my main concern!

Also, one other thing, Adiya. I don’t have “projects”. I’m so below amateur I couldn’t get a gig shooting a Christmas party at a mental institution. No, I shoot for myself, I try to get the most beautiful looking shots of nice scenery, hopefully with me included sometimes, to pass on to my descendents. Always being the guy in the family who owned the video camera (going back 36 years) naturally I was always the guy behind the camera. Now that I can get close to movie quality video I’d like to get some stuff of myself, to see what I look like in HD without having to look in a mirror 😉

Thanks again for responding. This is what I’m talking about, btw. I’m adding a video but I have no idea where it’s going to end up. This message board software is SO outdated!

Autumn in the Woods

[Duke Sweden]

Thank you, Ann. Now, whose jets are cooled!

[Duke Sweden]

Did you click on the link!?! It takes you to Adobe where you have to enter your username and password in order to download from Adobe’s website. After doing so it forwards to the download page for Elements. After that you can go back to original site and download the different software.

Sheesh, what a baby. And I don’t have to run spamware detectors, once the programs expired I deleted them from my computer, with no problems.

[Duke Sweden]

All you can get there are trial versions and updates. There are no cracks or serial numbers. But, hey, don’t let me stop you from being paranoid.

[Duke Sweden]

Thanks again. That’s not the folder either, judging by the current contents. I checked my comment history here but it gets cut off before the comment where I originally mentioned having seen this.

[Duke Sweden]

Thanks. There’s no temp folder there.

[Duke Sweden]

Thanks but that’s where the media cache files are, that can be emptied using the “Clean” button. There is another folder where temp files and copies of project files are sent, that you have to delete manually. It’s in another thread here somewhere but I can’t seem to find the right search term to find the post.

[Duke Sweden]

I’m positive that when I added one of my presets to a clip all of the components were included. The preset would always show up in the effects window fully expanded, showing all the components included in the preset.

I think this problem popped up with the latest update. I almost guarantee that’s the case. Hovering over the lumetri effects is clever but I think this would be fixed in the next update.

[Duke Sweden]

You know what? I just checked all my presets and you’re right. Only the lumetri adjustments are there. Told ya I was a buffoon. I guess that doesn’t really solve your dilemma, though.