How to make DV footage look like film?

[DynamicRealism]

Many options... for a semi-film look, just deinterlace the footage to get progressive 29.97 or "30p" fps footage... or use magic bullet to bring it down to film standard 23.976 fps progressive.

[DjimiFett]

I dont use AE that much so maybe someone with more expertise will contradict me but..

Using a grain filter on an adjustment layer works well on still images, i understand your working with dv but if you use it sparingly i think it would work.

Also dv doesn't handle contrast aswell as film, so try pulling the contrast a little to try to even out the exposure.

Best of luck,
Djim

[scrimski]

Do not touch cheap FX like grain when trying to fake a movie look. First, de-interlace your footage, as film does work with 24 full frames per second, and not like DV with 50(PAL) or 60(NTSC) fields per second. If provided by the camera, use progressive scan.
As said, contrast is higher in film, but do not pull up the contrast for the whole picture, create a luma-dependent pass filter for the parts with less contrast and pull them up afterwards.
Color in film may vary from DV, mostly it's more saturated, but this strongly depends on the film material used, so do some research for the color mood used in film and adapt it to your material(after the contrast thing). A lot of the work to give films a special look is done after editing in the film lab.
If you still want, you can add grain, but DV is grainy enough imho.

[m|3]

Here you go:

1) http://www.creativecow.net/articles/aftereffects.html

2) http://www.dvinfo.net/articles/filmlook/broadway1.php

3) http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/312793.html

[Dutchman]

That http://www.dvinfo.net/articles/filmlook/broadway1.php is indeed the best! :twisted:

That one is a vééry genious one! Works pretty well, and it is a nice method.

Last week I had a talk with somebody at the Autodesk booth at the IBC (Amsterdam), who was promoting Lustre. He gave me the advise of the curves trick (image), using noise (to give the illusion of a higher resolution), and to replace big holes with solid colors with gradients and so (by keying it out), because that stuff can look odd if you put up the contrast.

http://www.dvinfo.net/articles/filmlook/broadway/scurve.gif (http://www.dvinfo.net/articles/filmlook/broadway1.php)

Good luck & Tell about your experiences! :scream:
-Gijs

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