The Art of Color, Magic Bullet Looks with Sony EX1 footage

[FoomMan]

Silly question- what settings did you export this with? I'm having a real hard time getting Premiere to give me a satisfactory looking video on YouTube, yet I never had an issue with Vegas.

[HDinVision]

@FoomMan Never use premiere to encode anything, I can't stress it enough how much it sucks. I personally use CS3 for the sole purpose of bypassing their encoder in favor of a direct video export. Either do uncompressed, cineform (I use) or even still sequence. Then take that footage into a real encoder such as TMPGenc and make whatever you want. Never use adobe for mpeg anything unless you want soft, blocky or generally ugly video. Its only a shame that youtube version is ugly too.

[FoomMan]

@HDinVision It's a real shame. I've always used Vegas for my projects, but this piece has so many After Effects shots that I decided to just nest them. Vegas's YouTube presets are so clean and usable... I'm astounded at just how poor the CS5 YouTube setting is.

[HDinVision]

@FoomMan Since my projects start and end 1080p, adobe's encoding problem is not a big issue for me, but I can see how it impacts and pisses off web video people. I professionaly edit on the Smoke but for this kind of stuff I have found primere the fastest to work on in my editing style, especially wih the massive audio tweaking I do. For most people, I wouldn't recommend it over anything else. But if you can dedicate a custom made system to only it and know how to make it, it can fly.

[deion807]

So all of the 8mm film type effects were just handmade and applied in editing? You willing to share any of your photoshop files for those?!?! Good stuff. Very well done.

[HDinVision]

@deion807 yes, I start in photoshop and make random symbols mix 2 dirty colors together then start to add tons of texture filters and start mixing the layers with heavy use of the color burn and hard light mixing options.

I then take these layers to an effects program to animate them. Sprockets and film frames are just basic rounded rectangle shapes repeated with a transparent hole.

[McSuperfly101]

I'm thinking about getting Adobe Premiere Elements 9, is Magic Bullet available for that too?

[siby23]

"Looks" for color? who is the vendor of this plug in?

[HDinVision]

@siby23 Red Giant Software, it works for most any post program

[ed777vs]

nice video!!!!

[RosenbaumPatrick]

Everything about that video is great.  Shooting, editing, grading...very well done. Hope the couple was happy.

[Linogq]

Awesome vid I beat the couple loved it.

[siby23]

Awsome Video!. Beautifule couples, smart capturing and creative editing. What software and plugins used to make this wonderful video?

[HDinVision]

@siby23 Thanks!  The main plug-in used was "Looks" for color. There were a few others as well. Most film effects were random blotches drawn in photoshop and screened on top with a roll effect. Most video programs can edit this. Combustion did some of the heavy lifting at the start.