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Mino

Northern Dreamer
Over the weekend we shot a body peircing training piece. Very low budget, so low we borrowed everything but the DVX and two sony 1 chips. I really wanted a a two DVX shoot, but.... So I went for the main camera DVX shooting 24p one locked off sony and the other sony doing wacky angles and hand held shots. I had no illusions about mixing the 60i and 24p as it's all going onto a 29.97 timeline but I was unprepared for the stunning difference in quality between the DVX and two Sony's....Wowsers! It's been so long since I've looked at stuff shot on the little guy, I forgot. So I still want to use the extra footage only I want to filter it to hide the comparitive differences in quality. Any thoughts on what type of filter woulld look good? I was thinking of turning the 60i footage into 24p and aplying an old film filter?
 
you could bump the contrast up and add a color filter to it, mayvbe even take the saturation down or up.... just to make it it look even more different from the dvx stuff.
 
exactly like rich said... embrace the difference and run with it. Funky color treatments, etc. Even if it's black & white high contrast with some grit and grunge could look cool.
 
Thanks guys...I'm also trying layering the 60i stuff using two copies at 10-20 % opacity lagging one layer by one frame and advancing the other by one frame seems to give a weird stroby spaced out look.
 
You could do a multiple frame type effect, inserting the lower end camera's as inserts at half size, resolution difference being way' less noticable?
 
That is a good approach, and I was getting ready to suggest it too. I am getting ready to do weddings, and all I have is the DVX and a hi8. I have done some tests using the DVX as the main picture with some hi8 shots as a picture in a picture window, and it's working out pretty good with the lesser res'd cam having plenty of pixel power to fill a little box in the bottom right corner. At Muir Boda's suggestion matching the above, I just put a little sepia on the hi8 and it removes any color matching concerns.
 
I would say try some fairly hefty desaturation if you haven't already... Sony's are notorious for overexposing greens and blues.
 
You could try a "bleach bypass", duplicate the video event, convert the top event to grayscale (black/white), set top event mode to "Multiply". Gives it a gritty look like in Saving Private Ryan.
 
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