cinegrain, rgrain pr gorillagrain?

chrismagicc

chrismagicc

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I've found these three companies selling film grain plates. Does anyone have any advice as to which one is best? I know that rgrain is digitally produced grain plates and the other two are real grain plates captured from 8, 16 and 35mm celluloid.
 
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CineGrain and IndieScans are the two best, cinegrain for high tier and indiescans for low tier. All the others are ****. They're either fake, made against a grey background with magic bullet or they're the same 35mm scan adjusted in aftereffects different ways to make more money.

All of Hollywood uses CineGrain.
 
The Problem with Crumple Pop is it doesn't have 8mm, and it's digitally delivered so it's just a few gigs as opposed to half a terabyte like CineGrain.

It literally has 20x less content.
 
One thing I noticed is that the cheaper options effect your exposure. So its capturing more than just the grain and the nuetral grey is not really neutral. Download the samples and try them out.
 
iunknown said:
One thing I noticed is that the cheaper options effect your exposure. So its capturing more than just the grain and the nuetral grey is not really neutral. Download the samples and try them out.
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I downloaded the indiescans samples and they do not change the exposure with my footage. Indulge!
Also, why is indiescans better than gorillagrain?
 
GorillaGrain's entire product line was made with 1, minute long 35mm clip! they cut it up into 3 shorter clips and tweaked it in after effects. The only companies that actually shot 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm then went through the trouble of shooting different stocks of each are CineGrain and Indiescans. It's very expensive to do, so most companies just take a clip and augmenent it in the computer.
 
chrismagicc said:
I've found these three companies selling film grain plates. Does anyone have any advice as to which one is best? I know that rgrain is digitally produced grain plates and the other two are real grain plates captured from 8, 16 and 35mm celluloid.
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What editing suite are you using out of curiousity? I'm using Final Cut Pro X and tried the free Gorilla Grain effect (has dust/scratches etc) and at the subtle level I was using it, I couldn't actually see any difference between it and the built-in FCPX Aged Film effect at 7% so I simply went back to that. Can't say anything about the paid plates though.
 
I wish someone would do a comparison of all the scan-based and synthetic options so that you could really get a sense for what best matched your aesthetic before buying.
 
I was about to purchase the Rgrain $99 "Complete Pack" when I realized that in the checkout page the selection in the shopping cart was "35mm FILMPAK" and the contact info was directed towards IndieScans...

Anyone notice this when they were purchasing Rgrain?

EDIT: Never mind. FYI IndieScan and Rgrain both use the same shopping cart system, and if you visit IndieScan's shopping cart then Rgrain's, IndieScan's product will replace Rgrain as the selected item. Best guess is this is due to browsing cookies.
 
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