BW postproduction tips and tricks

[la guinda]

Hi, im making the postprodution for my short film, and im looking for a nice BW film look (digital)

I worked with the HVX200, and I will like to find some tutorial or tips, about making a proper BW effect for HD film.

I tried to find trough internet, but i dont find any profesional tips, some people just said to tuch the CC and color balance, the levels, and thats it, but, I dont know for me its not enoguh, i wolud like to find some BW look, like euopeans films 50, 60, 70, nouvelle vage, or something aroud that, but im quite lost.

Should i try with some speacil plugins??
Final cut, apple shake or apple color??

and what is the proper order for filters?? is this important..???

 

[dory_breaux]

If you have Photoshop CS3 or CS4, import your video into that and use the "Black and White" adjustment.

 

[la guinda]

photoshop???

I dont know man, maybe photoshop, is not the kind of tool that im looking for, what i want is to go deeper in the tonaities, and to arrive to correct and control a beatifull grayscale, in the picture, photoshop, (i know that now include tools for video) is more for photo...

makes me dude. And im more familiar with apple shake, what is more powerfull for HD dont you think so?

thanks

 

[dory_breaux]

Well, yeah, Photoshop is still photo oriented, but what is video but a bunch of still images? I've never used Shake (or any apple stuff other then FCP), but I guess whatever your familiar with.

Whenever I do B/W conversions, I use either Photoshop or Magic Bullet (inside premiere or after effects).

 

[Matt Grunau]

I would suggest using the Tint effect, rather than Desaturating via Hue and Sat. And you can try applying the Tint to an adjustment layer, and setting that layer's blending more to Color. You may like that better than Normal.

Also try using blending methods with duplicate layers of video to increase contrast while leaving the black and white points "alone". Setting the topmost layer's mode to Overlay and Soft Light will do that.

Lastly, since black and white film is for the most part less noisy, a little noise reduction would look nice.