Shooting Day for Night

hey, i have done this before with G filters and magicbullet but im drawing a blank right now, im trying to import the night filters for FCP from THISISWELLS, after i throw them in my FCP application support folder, how do i import them for use in FCP?
 
Day for night is an old Photoshop trick. check out the attached footage and the attached settings for your NLE. The footage is very convincing to a broadcast monitor. I don't know if the wmv does it justice.

http://home.comcast.net/~stephenlnoe/daytonight.wmv

http://home.comcast.net/~stephenlnoe/colorsettings.jpg

don't worry about shadows because the moon cast a strong shadow at full moon and streetlights make high contrast shadows as well. The key will be to make sure the actors have plenty of exposure on thier faces. You're going to pull down quite a bit of luminance so it's OK if their faces are well above 100 IRE. Experiment

take care...
 
Day for night can be very convincing if done correctly. Here is a link to a film that my daughter worked on last summer that used a day for night shot in the woods. It involved several thousand feet of feeder cables, a big diesel genny and a decent number of large HMIs (10 or 12Ks) but it came out great. This was shot in July of 2004 in a forest area above Pasadena for a film titled "A Distant Shore".

The scene begins at 4:18 into the film. This location had an 8AM call time and I think that the first shot was around 11AM, so it was certainly daytime for the entire scene!

http://talent.museelectronics.com/ads.wmv

I asked the DP about this shot and she indicated that they had done several tests to fine tune the process, but was convinced that it would be just fine. I have to say that after seeing the results, I agree, it worked for this film.
 
It was shot on an Arri 435 with all anamorphic primes using 35mm Vision 2 stock, then telecine to DigiBeta and finished on Avid.
 
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