Working on DV "Film Look"
Aside from playing around with wireless security lately, I've also been looking to polish up my Digital Video (DV) footage that I have collected over the past few years.
FilmLook or Film Look (depending on who's talking about it) is the process of making video look like film. It's something I've been playing with for about the past year. I think I'm finally onto something.
There are many plugins available for Video Editing packages like Adobe's Premiere, but the initial investment isn't for someone who's just looking to see how good it can be done. Basically, the process involves taking what is typically 30fps NTSC (or perhaps PAL) interlaced and doing the following:
1) Perform any non-linear editing or color correction, adjustments, special effects, etc.
2) Deinterlace without significant loss of resolution or motion information. NTSC interlacing actually provides 60 fields (images) per second. The allows the viewer to perceive motion differently than whole images captured on 24fps film.
3) Converting 30fps to 24fps while accurately analyzing frames to adjust for proper motion.
4) Converting back from 24fps to 30fps. 30 frames per second seems to be what is required for MPEGII burned to DVD.
Once these steps are correctly taken, you'll have stunning video that looks like you actually used a film camera. The problem has been good interpolation at both the deinterlacing process and the frame rate conversion. I've found a couple of stand alone products that aid in the process. Along with TMPGEnc, you should be able to produce a decent "film look" for a reasonable expense.
Once I nail down the process more, I'll try to post full details and a procedure.
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