Inspiring Montage - Most Film Like Image I've Gotten

Yeah looked nice for sure :beer:

mattmatheson said:
I usually crush blacks to get a film look but I'm doing just the opposite and it looks so much better.

Ill post grabs later.

http://www.mattmatheson.com/rage/fi...ll&id=1196605984&archive=&start_from=&ucat=3&
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MalcolmOng said:
That's some great looking footage. What do you mean by 'youre doing just the opposite'?
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mattmatheson said:
Instead of making blacks, black and shadows, black, I brought up the black level so it isnt black at all, its a bluish black.

The only effect I used was levels.
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Well you're talking about two different things here.
Crushing the blacks refers to at what point shades of gray, as they get darker and darker become pure black. So crushing the blacks means there is less gradation in the grays at the low end.

It has to do with intensity and range nothing to do with color.

Pushing the shadows or blacks into blue or slightly into blue is one of the most popular grading choices out there. But you can do it with crushed blacks, or washed out blacks.

Pushing the shadows into blue is often coupled with yellow in the highlights and just a touch of green in the mids. This look is probably popular because it mimmicks light at sunrise or sunset, i.e., the magic hour.

Maybe this looks more film like to you because you've stumbled on part of a popular grading formula that's seen a lot in professional films and such?
 
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yeah, stuff looks sick bro.

Most of my image quality issues i think come from my export. what settings, compression, ect. are you using when you pull it out of your edit?

and was that all 30p? it made your moving images so smooth.
 
I crush my blacks, I have not put the yellow in highlights, and green in mids, and I still can't replicate the film quality seen here I mean good images but not like this, is there an exact setting I can put it on, I have tried magic bullet and film magic pro, but again nothing of this quality. Thanks.
 
man...I read almost that entire post on that skate website....And wow...I mean wow....That's some pretty harsh stuff...

I've watched other things you've made and I've definitely enjoyed them....Like you've said, you're goal in life isn't to film skateboarding but through the way you film you can definitely see your personality....

On my soap box:

I've seen my share of skateboard/wakeboard/snowboard videos, so I'm just letting you know from someone who has seen skate videos etc that this footage was good and that I just don't concentrate on the artistic side your filming (Like those guys said about DVX users) I look at the video as a whole. Which is what I think all of us DVXusers are doing when we're looking at it. What's cool about your video is that you were just messin around with your friends and filming them, which we have all done, and to me what I really like about this video is that it not only shows your talents as a filmer, but it shows you're friends progression. They may not be landing the craziest tricks yet, but their progressing and for people on that skate forum who mostly focus on the skating aspect should see the video for at least that....But not all of them see it that way... lol...

That's why I think that you probably should try not to post on that skate website anymore lol....They really concentrate on the aspect of if the trick is insane or not, which I think you've seen that if its not they rag on it....Anyway, to sum this up, good work dude....Keep filming the way you are...

*stepping off soapbox*

Sorry for this being so long, but as I was reading the posts on that other site I was seeing it from matt's point of view and I definitely saw his reasoning so I thought I'd share....Peace
 
i also read the stuff from the skate site. Those guys are assholes.

I guess that's the difference when showing your "film" to a group of filmmakers or a bunch of skaters :)
 
looked like a blast

I loved the shot of the birds in the sky and then the one with the sunset

they gave me the chills
 
well, from my chair this stuff is just fantastic. You expose very well and you have a great sense of the frame- there is something very easy and enjoyable about many sequences in your short. the film look is purely subjective and will be determined by what the director wants. the combo of the music and the look works very well and lends itself to a rather dreamy feel. be proud. you've got talent.

cheers
 
Im not sure if i am a big fan of the Whole blueish Black, I really like my balck to be true black, Good looking footage, what web carrior are you using, I like the whole look of you site. how much a month is it?

Jon
 
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