Film Look

[Lenilenapi]

shortnstout,
My apologies, I meant the expression "magic bullet" not the program. I meant there is no simple "press this button" solution , but you haev to use your eyes to do matching.
I have limited experience in post and was only talking about matching during shooting. I bow to your greater knowledge and perhaps there literally is a "magic bullet" in this case. However even then you would need to use your eyes & skill to make it work rather than apply the "match to Redrock & nikon" filter.

Lenny Levy

[shortnstout]

I knew you meant the expression "magic bullet." I just thought it was a funny coincidence that there IS actually a program that is in part used for this very purpose. I wasn't trying to sound like I know everything about post color correction and am superior to you. Its fine you were just talking about shooting, I was just letting the user know of another tool they can use to get the shots in the final output to match up.
On THAT note, in Magic Bullet the program you can save custom filters so you could have one called "match to Redrock & nikon" that you throw on your footage to do just that. But of course you'd have to set that up and also make little tweaks anyway. I've always thought the product name was misleading but it is a good tool.

i guess there is no magic bullet in conveying tone over a forum.
i still love you.

[Lenilenapi]

Well... if you can come up with the "match to Redrock & nikon" look then I will stand completely corrected! Unfortunately I guess even every "magic bullet" has its price. How much is the program?

And thanks for the love baby!

Lenny

[shortnstout]

definitely has its price, but you can see if you like it with a demo version for free (has a stupid watermark over image): http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/demos.html
takes some time working with it to get it to work nicely. again, i never ever use the presets, just make slight changes, but usually to everything right before output (shouldn't use it if going to film out).

[Ted Arabian]

Forgot to mention that there will be a difference in the footage's look. Not just the selective focus, but it'll look different so you'd have to figure out how to match it to the naked cam.

That's what I'm attempting to do, myself. I haven't found a solution to make the naked HVX footage match the look of the adapter footage just yet. Aram suggested a 1pixel blur, I'll have to expirement.

1 pixel may be too much. but shoot like cinegamma D when shooting naked and Bpress when shooting adapter. that may matchthem up a bit.

on FCP expiriment between point 1 and point 25

This is a great thread. Timur, great post on page 1.

I am curious about this talk of 1 pixel blur and Jack's comment about "point 1 and point 25." I use FCP and I don't know what this means.

[tmnt]

Think they're just talking about using a blur effect on the naked footage to take the edge off it to better match the softer adaptor footy. I think when Jack said point 25 he meant '.25', as in a quarter pixel blur.

[Ted Arabian]

Ah! Gotcha. "point" as in a decimal point!

Thanks

[musicprogirl]

Thank you Timur for a Great post. I just downloaded your work reel and I'm blown away. Your techniques definitely work. Everything looks like film. You're incredible.
Thank you for sharing knowledge

[TimurCivan]

Thank you Timur for a Great post. I just downloaded your work reel and I'm blown away. Your techniques definitely work. Everything looks like film. You're incredible.
Thank you for sharing knowledge

thanks!
That stuff is over a year and a half old... new reel soon! im so excited.....

[Evans]

That post on page one was really informative, thanks Timur!