[Majorasshole]

Grunge is all around you and you probably didn’t even notice it.
Any collection even large ones, run out of useable combinations eventually. And usually sooner rather than later. Making your own stuff is the key. A good digital SLR is a great way to get textures. Shoot in your basement or parking lot or a downtown alley. Shoot everything everywhere and amass a collection of stuff that could be useable.

for footage, alot of the riot gear stuff is shot with a nice HVX200 or something, but you can shoot your own splatter with just a video camera, some paint and some paper. For droplet stuff you can try dropping paint into a fishtank and videotaping it.

I know old school editors who used to keep books and books of photos they used for their library of textures.

[Majorasshole]

Can’t your armor actor wear a black bodysuit? And you could shoot it in front of a white backdrop or cyclotron. That way you don’t have to do anything in post it is all done in camera as you want it. Dance shops should stock full bodystockings and headsocks.

[Majorasshole]

right click it and choose interpret footage
then conform it to the 23.976 and the footage will play slower
it won’t be alot of slow motion going from 30 to 24. You can try using time remapping with the pixel interpolation feature turned on to slow it down further with decent results.

[Majorasshole]

From a strictly untechnical point of view. The one thing other than just spill suppression that Keylight does is take the key color out of the specular reflections in your footage. So if a person was wearing a leather jacket and had a subtle greenish tinting to the shiny spots in the leather it will take that green out. You can simulate this with color correction, but keylight automates the feature.

[Majorasshole]

or animated/travelling mattes

[Majorasshole]

Using the full frame and a widescreen flag will only work on dvd players that support it. If you want a 4:3 version with black bars, you can make a 4:3 project with layer of black video and the 16:9 footage you want letterboxed layed over top, you may have to scale it to the correct aspect ratio. This way however you lose the pixels from the black bar area rather than using a full screen image.

[Majorasshole]

HDV is still consumer quality HD. It uses a standard DV tape and the same bitrate as MiniDV Standard Definition. HDV It has to compress your HD footage more to fit it on that bitrape/tape.

[Majorasshole]

oops wrong link
https://www.sinisefans.org/gump/gumpfx.html

[Majorasshole]

https://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vjprgpix/softmain.htm
here is a long list of vj programs. Most for manipulating and mixing clips and image elements in real time and/or with midi control.

Of that list I would recommend MidiVid. It was written and designed by a two friends of mine.
https://www.midivid.com/

[Majorasshole]

here is a bit of info from how they did this effect to Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump with a really bad photograph.
https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1622338_1363003,00.html

https://sinisefans.org/gump/fx3.jpg