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2008-11-24 05:58:24
Lawdy_
ahhhh dangit!
+15|6186|Australia
Im not sure if this is in the right topic, so please correct me if i am wrong.

I have been doing lots of reasearch on video editing, and various things like that.
but there has been one thing that i have been looking at alot, and i just cannot find out how to do it, im not sure of what it
is called, but ill do my best to explain it.

When you watch a special features on a movie, you look at them filming some of the scenes, and you see the scenes but it just doesnt look right.
then you look at the final finished movie, on dvd or somthing, and the colour of the video, is really dark and warm, and it looks really nice.

If anyone could please guide me or know of what the process of getting that is called, i would much appreciate it.

If you would like anymore ways of trying to explain, i can try my best again.

Thanks!
2008-11-24 12:36:59
DefCon-17
Maple Syrup Faggot
+362|6377|Vancouver | Canada
I think it's called "Color grading".

Here's how to do it with just a picture:
http://tutorials.lombergar.com/achieve_ … _look.html

For movies:
I saved this one until last as doing all the stuff above will make a bigger difference than just using this type of software alone.

Film-look Software (mainly Magic Bullet, FilmFX and Cinelook) is software that takes your footage and tweaks around with the colour, contrast, grain etc. to make it look more like film. Changing of the image in this way is also known as grading and it can really make your video footage look much, much better.

Feature movies use grading all the time. Think "The Matrix" - a very dark, atmospheric film. Do you think it looked like that on set? Bollocks did it. Yeah sure the lighting was done but tweaking the image to make the blacks really black and giving everything a sort of green tint - that was the work of grading.

Your film-look software works in the same way (Magic Bullet even has a Matrix setting) and so it takes your footage and gives it a desired "tone". Some of the software can even remove digital artifacts caused by miniDV to help clean the image. And on the polar opposite, you can add film artifacts like scratching, rolling and dust if you want you video to look like battered film.

To read more about film-look software check out these three sites. Be warned, the software is bloody expensive!
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/store/a … looks/new/
http://www.bigfx.com/
(Last one wasn't found.)
2008-11-24 13:22:00
mtb0minime
minimember
+2,418|6876

What ^ said. (I've also known it to be called "color correcting"). With most video editors you just kind of play around with a color wheel or some sliders until it looks the way you want it to. It's something very quick and easy (most of the time) that really adds tons of production value and professionalism to the film. Don't edit a video without it!
2008-11-24 20:53:54
Lawdy_
ahhhh dangit!
+15|6186|Australia

DefCon-17 wrote:

I think it's called "Color grading".

Here's how to do it with just a picture:
http://tutorials.lombergar.com/achieve_ … _look.html

For movies:
I saved this one until last as doing all the stuff above will make a bigger difference than just using this type of software alone.

Film-look Software (mainly Magic Bullet, FilmFX and Cinelook) is software that takes your footage and tweaks around with the colour, contrast, grain etc. to make it look more like film. Changing of the image in this way is also known as grading and it can really make your video footage look much, much better.

Feature movies use grading all the time. Think "The Matrix" - a very dark, atmospheric film. Do you think it looked like that on set? Bollocks did it. Yeah sure the lighting was done but tweaking the image to make the blacks really black and giving everything a sort of green tint - that was the work of grading.

Your film-look software works in the same way (Magic Bullet even has a Matrix setting) and so it takes your footage and gives it a desired "tone". Some of the software can even remove digital artifacts caused by miniDV to help clean the image. And on the polar opposite, you can add film artifacts like scratching, rolling and dust if you want you video to look like battered film.

To read more about film-look software check out these three sites. Be warned, the software is bloody expensive!
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/store/a … looks/new/
http://www.bigfx.com/
(Last one wasn't found.)
Thanks for showing me this, would you think this is all able to be done similarly in Sony Vegas?
2008-11-24 20:55:00
Lawdy_
ahhhh dangit!
+15|6186|Australia

mtb0minime wrote:

What ^ said. (I've also known it to be called "color correcting"). With most video editors you just kind of play around with a color wheel or some sliders until it looks the way you want it to. It's something very quick and easy (most of the time) that really adds tons of production value and professionalism to the film. Don't edit a video without it!
Yeah i have tried colour correcting, it does help, but i wasnt sure if that was the way the "pros" did it
thanks
2008-12-11 21:17:22
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6822|132 and Bush

"The Pros" usually shoot with the proper equipment. Post production is relatively minimal.
Example: http://www.vimeo.com/1993349 <3 Letus extreme
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