Vidding, again
Jan. 29th, 2005 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lierdumoaHave been working on the Firefly vid all day. And aren't you lucky -- you get to hear all about it.
My plan of action for today was to make the instrumental intro to the vid look like aged film. Premiere doesn't actually have an aged film filter, however, Windows Movie Maker does. I put about 30 seconds of plain white video into WMM, slapped an aging filter on, and exported as a high quality avi. The filter caused the white video to darken as you moved radially outwards from the center, as well as made sporadic scratch marks and burn marks pop up in the video, etc.
I pulled the filtered video back into Premiere. I used the luma key to make whites in the clip transparent and varying grays, varying degrees of translucency. I played with the color balance to make the filter brown. Just in case anything ended up looking weirdly pixellated, I threw on a gaussian blur, upped the contrast, and added a sharpen filter for good measure. I now had a working filter. I could put it on top of any clip in Premiere and get the aged film effect provided in WMM, only prettier.
But wait, there's more. I put the filter aside for a while. I then took the section I was using it on, the intro, and exported the intro at 10 fps. I re-imported the segment with the lower framerate, copied it, put the copy on a second layer directly above, grayscaled the copy, tinted it brown, upped the contrast slightly, made it partially translucent so the clip underneath showed through. I then took the clip underneath, softened it with gaussian blur and upped the contrast on it slightly. I played with noise filters a bit before deciding not to use them.
It's so...so...brown!
::hops around gleefully::
I figure I'll do this same thing, minus the filter and the lowering of the framerate, for the verses and choruses and long instrumental. I'll reserve this full out use of effects for the short instrumentals between verses and for the ending instrumental.
It's sad really. Here I thought I'd found the perfect easy vidbunny. Simple storyline. Small amount of source. Really, really short song. And suddenly I find myself using more effects than all of my other vids combined. Do you know how long this crap takes to render? Do you?!?
::pines for RAM::
My plan of action for today was to make the instrumental intro to the vid look like aged film. Premiere doesn't actually have an aged film filter, however, Windows Movie Maker does. I put about 30 seconds of plain white video into WMM, slapped an aging filter on, and exported as a high quality avi. The filter caused the white video to darken as you moved radially outwards from the center, as well as made sporadic scratch marks and burn marks pop up in the video, etc.
I pulled the filtered video back into Premiere. I used the luma key to make whites in the clip transparent and varying grays, varying degrees of translucency. I played with the color balance to make the filter brown. Just in case anything ended up looking weirdly pixellated, I threw on a gaussian blur, upped the contrast, and added a sharpen filter for good measure. I now had a working filter. I could put it on top of any clip in Premiere and get the aged film effect provided in WMM, only prettier.
But wait, there's more. I put the filter aside for a while. I then took the section I was using it on, the intro, and exported the intro at 10 fps. I re-imported the segment with the lower framerate, copied it, put the copy on a second layer directly above, grayscaled the copy, tinted it brown, upped the contrast slightly, made it partially translucent so the clip underneath showed through. I then took the clip underneath, softened it with gaussian blur and upped the contrast on it slightly. I played with noise filters a bit before deciding not to use them.
It's so...so...brown!
::hops around gleefully::
I figure I'll do this same thing, minus the filter and the lowering of the framerate, for the verses and choruses and long instrumental. I'll reserve this full out use of effects for the short instrumentals between verses and for the ending instrumental.
It's sad really. Here I thought I'd found the perfect easy vidbunny. Simple storyline. Small amount of source. Really, really short song. And suddenly I find myself using more effects than all of my other vids combined. Do you know how long this crap takes to render? Do you?!?
::pines for RAM::
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