Filmlook using video
Filmlook using video- special effects and filmmaking
Since there are so many young filmakers on this forum, I thought I'd share a little something:
Within the last couple of years, Canon has developed a line of DV camcorders that use a technology called "Progressive Scan", which means they shoot 30 still frames per second. This gives the video a film look, opposed to the video look, which uses two interlaced fields per frame. Using two fields per frame is what gives video it's "smooth", video-like feel.
Although the footage playes like film, it is very clean, and doesn't have the dust, dirt, and scratches associated with some of the industrial film gauges (16 and 8). However, you can use After FX with a plugin called DigiEffects to simulate just about any film gauge imagineable.
www.canondv.com
www.Digieffects.com
Good luck!
p.s. Shooting on actual film provides more color depth and resolution than video can provide (in the lower gauges).
I HAVE A COUPLE OF VIEWERS FOR MY AVI ON MY SYSTEM. IN SOME, I AM ABLE TO ADJUST THE FRAME RATE.IS THIS AKIN TO WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT? IF IT IS ,TELL ME HOW MANY FRAMES PER SEC SHOULD I TRY ADJUSTING TO.
Darkfang:
Changing the FPS from 30 to 24 helps to give the video the proper speed of film, but to achieve the "film look" you need to combine the fields into frames, which I think can be done in Premiere (not sure).
Good luck!
You can combine the two frames in Adobe Premiere and create a pretty convincing filmlook by slowing the video by 1% (set new spees as 99%) and setting it to remove flicker. It produces excellent results.
I am writing an article with illustrations and movies for filmlook techniques at the moment. Please drop by http://www.exposure.co.uk in a couple of weeks to take a look.
If you want to play with video and make it look like film:
#1>>> You have to light it like film first... I worked on a project @ Jim Henson (Wandering Monkey) that was shot on digital beta, they forced depth with their lighting, we shot a shootout in an alley and they made layers of darkness and pools of light down the alley, it looks great! The Film made Sundance, it is called "The Item" it is a dark Comedy like Peter Jackson would do (they are HUGE fans) it may play on the Sundance Channel on cable, look for it.
Robotic Dream,
How much are the DV camcorders? I checked Canon's web site, but they didn't say.
I read on another post or email that the industry pros are testing a new DV Movie Camera in Australia. It is to be identical to 35mm film. Rumor also has it that Star Wars Episode 2 may shoot with it, if the tests are good.
I'm sure this one will be in the $25K+ range.
For us Po' Folks, Sony has Digital8 for $900.
The higher end of the pro-sumer is $3000. i didn't see anything yet on new models that were to be revieled at NAB99. Sony was to show a VX2000 with interchangable lens. Anyone here anything?
IMonster
I think I gave a DigiEffects demo for Premeire. I'll look at it.
I think that there's a "deinterlace" filter in Photoshop, so you can get better looking video stills.
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