Plug-in that looks like photomatix (?)

rook said:
Does anyone know of a plug-in that can get me a look that the photomatix program gets?

http://www.hdrsoft.com/index.html

I want to get this look on video. I love it. Reminds me of CGI.

Or is there another technique that any one has figured out?

-rook
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I'll take a crack at getting that look in Photoshop. I have a few ideas.
 
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that's interesting but I'm not sure how you'd apply that to video with their 3 seperate frame idea.
 
Yeah. It'd be impossible to use the same process as PhotoMatix but getting the same "look" on video must be possible some how.

I've bessed around a bit with white and black frost and the 3-way CC but I end up loosing so much detail that it becomes cartoon like.

I'll post a grab of what I've got so far (as soon as I can find a place to post).

-rook
 
rook said:
Yeah. It'd be impossible to use the same process as PhotoMatix but getting the same "look" on video must be possible some how.

I've bessed around a bit with white and black frost and the 3-way CC but I end up loosing so much detail that it becomes cartoon like.

I'll post a grab of what I've got so far (as soon as I can find a place to post).

-rook
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Black and white frost? What's that? (I know I'm going to regret the simplicity of the answer)
 
I don't think you can accomplish this look on video very easily. With programs like Photomatix it reads the metadata of the exposure and then combines the pixels to create an HDR. From what I understand nothing like this exists for video, yet.

The framing has to stay the same as well, so you would need to shoot three to five identical frames for this software to work. One way of doing it would be too use motion control to shoot the same pass 5-7 times at different exposures and then export the frames and embed the metadata into them then do them one frame at a time in a program like this or HDR Shop or Photosphere (which both are free, links below) and then import them into a system like AE and then output Uncompressed to your NLE, and voila!

Complicated, yes, but possible.

HDR Shop (for PC only) http://www.hdrshop.com/
Photosphere (for Mac) http://www.anyhere.com/
 
They are filters that you can put on a lens.

You can also use plug-ins that look the same.

They smooth out skin blemishes and create a less harsh look.

-rook
 
oneinfiniteloop, I don't know these programs. I will take a look.

Thanks for the tips.

-rook
 
Hey Rook, if you could figure out how to do this process in photoshop, I wonder if you could export your footage from something like after effects as numbered jpeg sequences and then do somekind of batch process in PS and bring them back into AE to output as an avi or something?

UPDATE: hey isn't this software available for photoshop?
This sounds like a *****, but I guess you'd have to shoot 3 video sequences and export them all to photoshop...holy crap.
 
Angrius said:
Hey Rook, if you could figure out how to do this process in photoshop, I wonder if you could export your footage from something like after effects as numbered jpeg sequences and then do somekind of batch process in PS and bring them back into AE to output as an avi or something?

UPDATE: hey isn't this software available for photoshop?
This sounds like a *****, but I guess you'd have to shoot 3 video sequences and export them all to photoshop...holy crap.
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Photoshop CS2 has a Merge to HDR feature. You could certainly run a script to automate this, but there are a few problems. You would have to shoot closer to 7 passes to get enough dynamic range for this to work. Three passes from a video cam won't be enough. Also, I'm pretty sure you have to have the metadata so it knows what exposures the images are. Photoshop's implication of Merge to HDR is a version of HDR Shops.

Oh yeah, one more thing...on the higher exposures you still need to retain detail in the highlights to a degree...this may be hard to do with a vid cam without blowing everything out.
 
rook said:
They are filters that you can put on a lens.

You can also use plug-ins that look the same.

They smooth out skin blemishes and create a less harsh look.

-rook
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Thanks. I didn't know that.
 
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