Giving Footage A Cinematic Look

Nah dude, thats the way industry proffesionals do it. You just dont have to zoom in much if you have a fuck off decent camera because the lense is already doing it for you.

I've noticed with my VX that footage does look very vibrant if you zoom in and film from far away. Thanks for the tips.

At least among finnish professionals its pretty ghetto way to do it, and they complain a lot about how the blur in the background isnt as cool as with proper equipment that have real shallow depth of field. And pic quality is supposed to go down as well.

Bigger cameras have longer burning gap (or however you say it english), that makes shallow depth of field available straight away. Im pretty sure that gl2 e.g. can do it. It might be that with hx or hvx you need zoom a little bit.

Who's the Finnish professionals you hang out with vode?

You probably dont know them, they are in this independent film group called ripoff.

But we are Ripoff too! Surely there can't be more than two Ripoff groups here? There aren't even enough people in the country for that!

Sony HDR cameras have cinematic mode. Buy one.

Use Adobe After Effects and download the Cinelook plugin. Allows you to add grain, hairs, flicker, etc .

sweet I just did.

Good boy.

I tried to give my film a cinematic look but it didnt work

turns out filming shit in a cinema only gets you arrested....



*insert better punchline here*

yeah them sony hd and hdv cams have cinema mode, dex is right it take some getting used to, to look at but it looks good.


lol

I dont feel like looking though the menu, how do u put the cinamatic mode on o mighty tom

P-MENU>MENU>press down to get to PICT. APPLI.>Touch it on the screen to enter the menu>Down 1 to D. EFFECT> CINEMA EFFECT.

INIT.

None of the consumer cams have true progressive scan, but they have their own version of it, like canons have something called frame mode, and I think sonys version is called progressive scan, but its not true progressive scan.

I thought it was called Cinematic mode, I haven't found anything called progressive scan.

Cine mode havent got anything to do with framerates or interlacing. Cinemode just adjust the colors, contrast and whatnot to look like film. Similar to magic bullet. (so it hasnt got anything to do with progressive scan either, and no consumers sony´s dont have progressive scan)

And to correct that Canon HV20, actually does have true progressive scan. All the official canon sources say its true progressive scan, reviews as well. There has been some users commenting in internet that it doesnt have true prog.scan, that every fourth frame is interlaced, but thats most likely because they dont know how to capture and export in 24p.

thanks