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Doing a movie for school, need some help!!!

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1-pippin
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so im doing a western movie for school, its our final.
im having some trouble getting a western look, im filming with a vx2100, i also have a vx1000 i could use if that would look better.
anyway i white balanced to get a kinda warm brownish color, turned the sharpness and color down a little and it still isnt how i want, anyone have any tips to get a western movie feel?
May 14 2007 4:26PM
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3-way-color-correction:

crush blacks
warm colors
raise contrast a bit
make the color tint towards purple a TINY bit

thats usually how I do it. I kind of got the 300 look except i did the colors in-camera
May 14 2007 4:53PM
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skiierman
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^ Listen to him. He's a guru with a camera.
May 14 2007 6:59PM
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Here is a quick grab of these settings:

NOTE: I didnt warm them up very much like I explained though, I was going for a semi-cold look

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oh and I was shooting this for a school project too!
May 14 2007 7:30PM
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ride-rider
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you could allso add that old movie style to it, you no where the lines are going through the screen.
May 15 2007 1:04AM
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yeah but that looks shitty like something you would see on a PBS special or the intro to Show & Prove.

for the old movie style, what I do is:

add slight vignette
very high contrast
add noise (grain)
add a flicker in cc by changing the white levels slightly every 2 frames
warm colors
add slight dust & mold (I use magic bullet for this)
May 15 2007 2:50AM
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xnick11
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Your sharpness on your camera should always be turned down,its really not needed.
May 15 2007 1:05PM
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xnick11
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I feel really sad that I use vegas and cant get those good of colors,im really considering switching over to premiere.
May 15 2007 1:40PM
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Galin
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as far as colors go i dont think your editing system has much to do with it, other than maybe more extensive color correcting, but a lot of the color quality comes from what the camera itself captures. He shoots with a dvx100 which gets amazing colors so that's probably why they look so good. Although im sure the color correcting helped as well, its mainly the camera.
May 15 2007 7:04PM
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bingo. Color Correction is a HUGE factor (I color correct every single clip in my edits, and 3-way-cc is pretty basic) but your biggest weapon against bad colors is filming good colors in the first place.
May 15 2007 7:59PM
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Geoff.
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do you have a clip of this?
May 15 2007 9:14PM
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tha_CF
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yea, and vegas has a real good color correction control, that i think is much easier then premier
May 15 2007 11:03PM
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xnick11
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I fell that Vegas is really unorganized when it comes to the plug-ins and such,im going to try premiere and AE right now and see how I like it compared to Vegas.
May 16 2007 12:06AM
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watch Lovely, Tahoe. Somewhere in there, this effect is applied to a shot of Paul Stover hitting a flat box.
May 16 2007 1:52AM
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Mattman
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good stuff
May 16 2007 3:12AM
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