Got very video-ish footage -> Reduce video look?

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JackBayer

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Hello good people!

I recently shot a concert with two cams (GH1&2). All good on that front.

But from the band I received a master which was shot with some JVC camcorder. I tried but there was no manual control at all.
So now I´ve got nice filmic footage from my GHs and a very video looking master to intercut.

Any ideas on maybe how to fight that videoishness? At least a little bit? It's 25p with most likely variing shutters or ISOs...

Thanks!
 
One idea if the difference is massive and you dont want to downgrade your better stuff is to just go further with it, make the JVC stuff Black and white with some old tv effects. Don't know if that will work for your project though but here's an example> http://youtu.be/iqdHsvTFb_g
 
Have you confirmed if the JVC was shot really at 25p? If its a handicam chances are it was shot at 50i. Try to do a "de-interlace" in the footage to split the i frames. Edit everything in a 25p timeline and use de-interlace on the JVC to see if it works. Jonmar suggestion is good, but if you have a plugin like magic bullet looks, or if you know your basic color correction, if you crush the blacks and saturate/tint/ or even desaturate you can probably get away with the footage... Of course, use more the GH cameras footage like JonMar suggested!
 
Or try to upgrade the JVC footage with a faked DOF blur(use sparingly, can look really fake), or a vignette blur, or vignette dark / bright edges. Sometimes some crazy color effects can hide crap video. (sometimes . . . .)
 
I now know that I´ll mostly be able to avoid this footage at all. I got some extra footage from a 5D so I almost always will have enough to intercut with. Faked dof blur could work when the JVC stuff is needed! thx.

@SPZ: As it turns out it is in fact 50i. Quite rare that I am actually happy to hear that :)
 
There are a lot of things that contribute to the "video look." You can compensate by slightly crushing the blacks or adding S-curve, changing the saturation, or even tweaking the frame rate. Less expensive cameras often suffer from over sharpening or edge enhancement ( a little harder to deal with.)

Carefully adjusting the color and luminance so that the cameras match is the first step. You can also add a slight amount of vignett hee to all your shots to help match them.

Jim
 
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