How to get the super 8 film look?

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How to get the super 8 film look?

Hi,

I'm shooting a music video with both Super 8 film and my Panasonic DVX100B digital (both in 4:3). Now as the DVX100 has progressive it already looks quite similar to my real film images. The only thing thats missing is the grain and unpredictable nature of super 8 developing. I wondered if anyone could help me match the two types of footage as closely as possible?

For example to get that grain I thought maybe I could film a white screen with my Super 8 camera for about 15seconds and then develop, get digitized and finally import it into FCP. Now I would have the pure grain against a white backdrop. Could I then overlay the grain effect on my DVXfootage somehow? Or do something similar to this that might work? It's really important I get around the problem in an uthentic way such as this, however I'm just not sure the above idea will work?

Any ideas and thanks in advance!

Kind Regards

Kevin

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Sep 11, 2011 2:42 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 11, 2011 2:51 AM in response to kevtim

FCP contains at least one QT filter aimed at replicating an old film look with grain and scratches etc.

You only need to use the effects you require, so the scratches can be omitted if not appropriate.

There are lots of other tutorials and suggestions available:-

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=old+film+look+FCP&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=or g.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

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Sep 21, 2011 8:06 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

Hi Ian

I downloaded the aged film plug in from cgm but cannot save it to where the tutorial instructs me too.

That is this tutorial:

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/smith_stephen/FCS2_film/video-tutorial

Now I go into Library, Application support, but then there is no FCP system support folder? Instead there is a Final Cut Studio folder that only leads to DVD Studio Pro, Motion, Patches and Shapes. There is no plug in's folder? What do I do or where can I find my FCP plug in's folder?

Thanks

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kevtim Author

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Sep 21, 2011 8:14 AM in response to kevtim

I found it! Got it working.

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Sep 21, 2011 9:15 AM in response to kevtim

My standard adivce on these kinds of posts:

A wee bit of a filter like Aged Film goes a l-o-n-g way.

Your audience is more sophisiticated than you think. Beware of oversytlization that leads to affectation that leads directly to your audience detaching.

bogiesan

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Sep 21, 2011 9:25 AM in response to David Bogie Chq-1

I have shot half the movie with an actual super 8 camera and the other half with my DVX100B. So it's just a matter of getting the DVX100B's footage as close to the super 8 stuff as possible. It's going well so far!

I am looking for a vingette psd as when super 8 footage is digitized it always leaves a nice tight vingette around the image. There was meant to be a vingnette psd with the cgm download in the project folder, however it doesn't appear to be there? Any ideas on how I can find it? Or where I can download one?

Thanks folks

Kevin

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Jun 27, 2016 10:33 PM in response to kevtim

This was a pretty good help ! no promotion or whatever... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flh31ZosL-Y

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