[michelin]

How can I achieve a film look using iMovie? Im recordimg video with a DV Cam.

Please if anybody knows a way let me know because videos don't look as smooth as film when exported to iDVD or Tape.


Thanks

[direktor]

You're probably not going to be able to do anything strictly within iMovie...you need a way to de-interlace your footage/add 3:2 pulldown, and tweak gamma/color correct.

Unless someone makes some iMovie filter for these things that I don't know about, you're gonna need either FCP or After Effects.

[starfleetX]

http://www.lafcpug.org/film_look.html

[direktor]

That article is pretty much right on the money, but there is even an easier way, given you have the resources...

Shoot on a Canon XL-1 or GL-1 in frame mode, and that creates video that is almost identical to the end product of the processes described above, except better. Why? Because the non-interlaced video is produced in camera with very little resolution loss, as opposed to taking existing video and removing a field.

Using an XL-1, and color correcting in Final Cut, has produced video for me that has fooled many production companies in L.A. here for 16mm. I dare say that it is a poorly kept secret among some DV shooters that the Canon frame mode is the "poor man's 16mm".

[michelin]

tahnks for the info guys. About the camera I have a Sony 8mm digital and a Canon ZR25mc. I dont have the frame option with these.

Any ohter ideas would be great.

Thanks again