GH3 Short video using the GH3, GH1, 7D, using free grain

The effects look nice, but the video to me still looks like sharp GH3/GH1 footage with "home movie" effects overlapped.
 
I've been having trouble finding that movie like setting on the GH3. That's why I tried the overlay.
I downloaded a free grain overlay, without the old film look I may try although I have been having trouble finding overlays that work with avid studio. I'm using a trial version of Sony vegas that seems pretty good with all the looks I was trying to find but it won't let me output to YouTube.
 
m43user said:
The effects look nice, but the video to me still looks like sharp GH3/GH1 footage with "home movie" effects overlapped.
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No they don't.

You obviously have no idea how much we used to curse when we got those "effects" on film. The film "burns" came from either some idiot opening the camera magazine in midroll, or if we carelessly failed to use a "changing bag" when changing film at the end of the roll. Without a "changing bag" several layers (3-6 or more) of film got "light struck".

The spots and blobs were from not keeping your film clean or storing it in high humidity where "crap" would literally get "welded" onto the film. Scratches came from not keeping the film gate in the camera and projector clean.

There is absolutely NO WAY you will catch me adding those "effects" to video and therefore labeling myself as a careless amatuer. They mostly occurred on 8mm and do nothing to make anything look cinematic. Cinematic character comes from lighting, composition, set design, sometimes lens choice, careful application of diffusion for SUBTLE softening, and a good grounding in basic photographic techniques.
 
photojunky said:
I've been having trouble finding that movie like setting on the GH3. That's why I tried the overlay.
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No "overlay" will give you "that movie look". One step towards that might be to either light carefully, deliberately, and skillfully (look for web based tutorials on lighting), or carefully choose "found" existing lighting situations that are not overly contrasty (often avoiding direct sunlight is a step in that direction).

Test out the "Natural" and "Portrait" color styles with subdued sharpness. If using Lumix and Olympus lenses try the Cokin #1 Duffusion filter to "knock off" the sharp detail and edges of those, some are reporting good luck with the Tiffen Black Diffusion series.

I'm still testing the Tiffen Black Diffusion #3, and have just located the set of Cokin Diffusion filters I used to use on my portrait cameras in the studio. Sold in #1 and #2 strengths they often varied in effect a bit and I wound up with a set of 5 that were like a graduated set ranging from so subtle you couldn't see any softening but skin tones came alive, to one I labelled the case "Don't even THINK of trying to focus through this one (I'd focus with the bare lens then put it on).
 
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