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[Shizo]
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I've made this today:
I'm trying to learn more about making movies at home. Anyone has some experience to share? For example making video look like film, and color correction tips? I've only found a few tutorials online, not too much information to be found.
PS: Premiere's tools are a little awkward. Would it be feasable to export all frames in a movie to BMPs, then apply PS action on them all, and import back into Premiere? |
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A.Buttle
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 7:01 pm |
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The problem with making video look like film is mainly one of lighting. The things you see on the screen are intricately lit and relit and relit again until it looks just right. Very rarely does anyone shooting video spend so much time to make sure the lighting is right.
Of course, you have to take film's wider range of color and grain and better contrast into account too. And the fact that a single 16bit 35mm film frame scanned comes to a lovely 1.8gbs. You just don't have that much information in 720 x 486 pixels of NTSC D1.
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DJorgensen
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:08 pm |
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| [Shizo] wrote: |
| Would it be feasable to export all frames in a movie to BMPs, then apply PS action on them all, and import back into Premiere? |
Ummm, under almost any circumstances, I don't really think that it would be practical at all. At 30 fps, if you have a 30 sec movie clip, it will be 900 images. Unless you have a day to kill (or possibly a few of them), I think it would probably not be worth it. The computational time for all the steps is pretty insane. Especially if half way through there was a power outage or something of the sort.
Personally however, I've not done a great deal with videos (except for when I was in high school - I helped edit and make the Grad video). I do find color correction technology to be very interesting as I realize the potential that it has.
EDIT: Darn, I had a link for a program from a university made to specifically auto-correct images. but it seems that they have blocked it out for now 
It was pretty spiffy and was surprisingly good when I tried it out a few months back...
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:00 pm |
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| I've only used Final Cut Pro for editing, and it has what seems to be a pretty complete offering of effects. Trying to attempt anything on video with PS would be a complete PITA. There's an effects house that makes video look like film, if certain rules are followed while filming. If you can do such a thing, you should be able to make some decent cash. |
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A.Buttle
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 1:20 pm |
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Dude, use After Effects. it works just like Photoshop but for video. Duh.
That or Combustion.
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[Shizo]
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:08 pm |
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| Thank you.. thank you very much :0 |
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wahookah
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:13 am |
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Premiere is a neat tool for stitchng together video clips and some simple corrections. After effects is some steps ahead if it comes to color correction and fx, but if you wanna get deep into it, a compositing package like combustion, shake, fusion etc. is your choice, not to mention tools like flint, Inferno, or whatever....
if you wanna have photoshop for moving images after effects is a good choice though...
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