Film Look

[ajalali]

Re: Film Look

Hi Glen - I've used DVFilm before as well (on some DV footage from a cheap Sony TRV18 camera), and was pleased with the results. There was definitely some resolution loss and artifacting due to the deinterlacing, but I thought the results looked slightly better than simply deinterlacing the footage with Vegas (my NLE). I think DVFilm claims that it tries to minimize resolution loss in the non-moving parts of the frame (i.e. static background).

Also, DVFilm seemed to slightly reduce the overall contrast of my video (blacks seemed a bit lighter), but you could probably compensate for this by increasing the contrast of your rendered video (prior to processing with DVFilm).

Overall I thought it was pretty good software for the price. But, as other have mentioned on this thread, it is definitely no substitute for the DVX's progressive modes.

[Neil Rowe]

Re: Film Look

[quote author=Glenn_Taylor link=board=nws;num=1100634398;start=0#14 date=11/17/04 at 03:15:16]Thanks alot guys(and gals of course) I'm trying to decide between cameras and this "film look" thing is important to me so the decision has been clearer for buying the DVX over the XL2.  Everything else considered it seems, for what I need, the DVX is a better choice.[/quote]


glen,

..not to make things harder, but both the DVX and the XL2 shoot true 24p so you wouldnt have to use DVFilmmaker with either of those cameras.  the difference in the image between the two is gamma and color rendition as well as image sharpness.  i and many others prefer the DVX gamma and color rendition to the XL2 but the XL2 has a noticeably sharper image, and its image rendition could for the most part be adjusted in post through color correction to be similar (if not the same in some cases)as the look of the DVX.

[dvpixl]

Re: Film Look

can extra stuff like grain and film-like softness from Magic Bullet be transfered over to film after? or is there another process for that?

[BLUESPIDER]

Re: Film Look

can extra stuff like grain and film-like softness from Magic Bullet be transfered over to film after? or is there another process for that?

I don't think you want to do that. You are going to risk your picture looking blury on the big screen. But there are other ways, none of which I know yet.

[dvpixl]

Re: Film Look

I wonder if that's the secret the Orphanage keeps in order to stay in business.
http://www.theorphanage.com/

[Neil Rowe]

Re: Film Look

..its still a very viable solution for enhancing small format video releases.