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Film Grain

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EvanHemps
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Does anyone know of a good film grain i could get for free?
Apr 15 2013 6:42PM
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TijmenDal
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Are you talking about a plugin?
Apr 15 2013 7:56PM
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buttrapinpirate
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Yeah like for photoshop or what? Typically if I want that effect I use a noise filter and make it black and white. If you mess around with it for a little while it comes out pretty damn good. But nothing beats actual film <3
Apr 15 2013 8:25PM
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EvanHemps
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i was talking about an overlay for videos
Apr 15 2013 10:04PM
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VT_scratch
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there are usually film grain or old film look effects in most editing programs, even basic ones
Apr 16 2013 4:44PM
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jeano
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Apr 16 2013 5:34PM
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altarvic
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Here is a free 35mm film grain footage: http://vegasaur.com/free-35mm-film-grain
Apr 19 2013 6:08AM
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hollygrove
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any sort of digital reincarnation of film grain is going to look like garbage, sorry.
Apr 19 2013 12:39PM
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jeano
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you're wrong.
Apr 20 2013 7:04PM
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hollygrove
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guess im just picky about that kind of stuff. adding on something like to that to match a different aesthetic which had nothing to do with digital just doesnt make sense to me.

guess this dude was looking for video though, and that i know nothing about.
Apr 21 2013 1:55PM
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Tikayt
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Haven't tried yet but you might google it, answers you will find.
Apr 21 2013 4:45PM
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plorr
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Try filmconvert. I use it for a lot of my footage and it looks great imo. I usually turn the grain down to 20-30% but if you wanted to have it more pronounced you could leave it higher.
Apr 21 2013 7:50PM
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I have seriously been considering filmcovert, but from my experience (using 35mm images of 18% gray card stitched into a video file) the grain only shows up on web-compressed videos if you use a large grain, which gives a different look altogether. How has your experience been?
Apr 21 2013 7:57PM
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plorr
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I like it. Not as much for the grain but as a starting point for color grading. I really like the look some of the film stocks give. You're right though, the grain still doesn't show up well on web compressed video.

Heres a couple examples:

I think this one I used the Ilford Delta setting: https://vimeo.com/63081914
This is one of the Fuji stocks: https://vimeo.com/62247924
Both were the 35mm grain with the slider turned down to about 25%
Apr 21 2013 8:12PM
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Yeah it seems like a neat tool; I just can't justify the price when I can do the same colorwork manually, and the film grain doesn't fare so well with web stuff. It seems like it would be convenient for short/casual videos where I don't want to dump time into grading.
Apr 21 2013 8:24PM
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PacificRimJob
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Won't look like garbage... as long as it's done right.

I never make film prints of any photo I take, I just scan it and digitize all my negatives and it comes out looking pretty awesome...
Apr 21 2013 8:27PM
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niko3
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Try holygrain, I often use these scans in my sport videos and sportswear ads. With a quick grade in after effects they look really filmic. Download this freebie http://holygrain.com/downloads.html maybe it's useful.
May 4 2013 5:15AM
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Jeff_Lo
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Gorilla Grain is solid.
http://gorillagrain.com

I like http://cinegrain.com

FilmConvert is great too, but already mentioned.

Gorilla and Cinegrain are a more direct way to just get an overlay.
May 4 2013 10:15AM
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RockNRollNghtClb
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May 4 2013 2:51PM
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