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Topic: Night vision
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Kurtzdr
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posted 02-19-2001 03:23 PM
Night vision goggles, any idea how to make it look like the camera is a pair night vision goggles. I mean make it look like the camera is looking through the goggles. Well...Umm...Arrrggg...Does this make any sense? |
dss
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posted 02-19-2001 03:46 PM
You could make a mask in AfterEffects (I have not idea how to make one) and put it over your "nightvision" footage. If the footage is not nightvision green, apply a green filter or adjust the color settings to make it look good.------------------
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RapierSFX
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posted 02-19-2001 06:40 PM
First, desaturate the video to get it to black and white. Then, add green and maybe darken it slightly. THere should be noise filters that will make it have the grainy look. |
lyvewyer
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posted 02-19-2001 06:46 PM
heres a quick mask i made in photoshop. http://nebula.spaceports.com/~novpic/nvg.jpg
just key out the blue with your footage, then, i used premiere to pull the green all the way up, and the red and blue all the way down on the footage, then i brought the brightness up to about 75% and the contrast down a bit, did a blue screen and voila
http://nebula.spaceports.com/~novpic/nvg.gif
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sausage
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posted 02-19-2001 08:53 PM
Shoot your footage using a sony handycam with real nightvision. As for the looking through googles thing, that may not look that great when you consider than you don't actually see goggles when you wear them yourself.The best look would be a very blurred border around the footage (goggles) to indicate that there is something on your face, but can't be seen because it's so close. ------------------
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crazy lou
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posted 02-19-2001 09:54 PM
just buy a scope off ebay for $50 bucks, i bought a pair of tank drivin goggles for about that. they were old and beat, but with in IR light they work pretty good.ok, if not just do the blur thing to the edge of the footage, as well as "fisheyeing" it they tend to warp the edges of what you can see more then just blurring it
later
Tom
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RapierSFX
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posted 02-21-2001 03:00 PM
Crazylou, you bought a pair of night vision goggles on ebay for 50 dollars???? |
crazy lou
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posted 02-21-2001 03:07 PM
something like that. it's a first generation OLD russian tank drivers goggles, not that great anymore. They're worn out, but cool with IR later
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Film Boy
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posted 02-21-2001 03:21 PM
When trying out methods to make it look green try this:
Actually shoot it dark. Be able to see your stuff, but film it a little darker than you'd like. Then, if there is a lot of color still, desaturate it. Now here's what I tried once and it worked nice: Color Balance. Tweak it so that you bring the green highlights, shadows, and midtones all up. This actually brightens the video and kind of gives it that night-visiony grain. Well, anyway, give it a shot, I say. |
morpherguy
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posted 02-21-2001 09:08 PM
Along with the other ideas mentioned, you might want to try adding a "video" filter to the footage. It makes it look like there are scan lines in the video. I used nightvision in the military and although the image was very good, for creative reasons I would want to go with the video filter idea just to help communicate to the audience that this is not ordinary video. |
morpherguy
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posted 02-21-2001 09:09 PM
Along with the other ideas mentioned, you might want to try adding a "video" filter to the footage. It makes it look like there are scan lines in the video. I used nightvision in the military and although the image was very good, for creative reasons I would want to go with the video filter idea just to help communicate to the audience that this is not ordinary video.would someone please delete this second copy of my post.. [This message has been edited by morpherguy (edited 02-21-2001).] |
RapierSFX
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posted 02-21-2001 09:25 PM
Many video programs have filters just for that, morpherguy. Differnt kinds for lines or noise and lots more. I know After Effects can do it, as well as Premiere, Commotion, and I think even Ulead Media Studio. |
