Rick Pearson
February 16th, 2005, 01:38 PM
For those of you who may not know about Digital Film Tool's 55mm filter set this post is for you.
So many people are wanting "The" film look, and they are using deinterlacers, buying new cameras with new frame rates, after effects plugins. But I have to tell you that yes we may in the future get closer to our coveted film look, but in the mean time the best approximation I have seen in helping us get away from cheap video, average video, and yes, even above average video is a great plugin set for Avid, After Effects, and Photoshop; it's called DFT 55mm.
Inside of this filter set you are given plug-ins that simulate black mist filters, diffusion, bleach bypass, grain, and even a plugin that let's you add a light pattern to a scene after you've shot it (this plug in actually works well, when I would expect it to not be worth it's weight in garbage.)
There is so much to it that it amazes me, and the quality you get from a little time spent tweaking settings and rendering it out is fantastic. And even if you don't come out looking like film, you'll come out looking as though you shot it on the best digibeta package out there. This is a must for DV shooters. Go check them out at http://www.digitalfilmtools.com.
So many people are wanting "The" film look, and they are using deinterlacers, buying new cameras with new frame rates, after effects plugins. But I have to tell you that yes we may in the future get closer to our coveted film look, but in the mean time the best approximation I have seen in helping us get away from cheap video, average video, and yes, even above average video is a great plugin set for Avid, After Effects, and Photoshop; it's called DFT 55mm.
Inside of this filter set you are given plug-ins that simulate black mist filters, diffusion, bleach bypass, grain, and even a plugin that let's you add a light pattern to a scene after you've shot it (this plug in actually works well, when I would expect it to not be worth it's weight in garbage.)
There is so much to it that it amazes me, and the quality you get from a little time spent tweaking settings and rendering it out is fantastic. And even if you don't come out looking like film, you'll come out looking as though you shot it on the best digibeta package out there. This is a must for DV shooters. Go check them out at http://www.digitalfilmtools.com.