Adam Berra Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 I'm shooting a short on s16, and I plan to shoot on fuji eterna 500T. I am trying to acheive a very smooth look with little detail in the highlights and shadows. My though was to overexpose two stops and pull one. I was curious as to whether anyone had tried something similar with this stock and could provide any insight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Chris Keth Posted October 23, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted October 23, 2006 I'm shooting a short on s16, and I plan to shoot on fuji eterna 500T. I am trying to acheive a very smooth look with little detail in the highlights and shadows. My though was to overexpose two stops and pull one. I was curious as to whether anyone had tried something similar with this stock and could provide any insight. How is that going to achieve your goal of little shadow detail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted October 23, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted October 23, 2006 What do you mean by "little detail"? More detail (less contrast) or less detail (high contrast)? Overexposing and pull-processing a lower-contrast stock like Eterna 500T is only going to make it even lower in contrast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Koolhaas Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 I just finished a short on super16 on eterna 500T, I overexposed a stop (rated at 250) and pulled a stop. The Director wanted a very low contrast slightly desaturated pastely look, thats why I did the pull. I really liked the effect, it gave the highlights a bit of a nice softness to them which I liked as well. The blacks were pretty milky though so we ended up bringing them down a little bit in certain shots/scenes in telecine (still had a very low con look, but just a bit less milky). Hope this helps. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andres victorero Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Can you post some frame? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Berra Posted October 23, 2006 Author Share Posted October 23, 2006 Sorry I wasn't very specific in what I wanted to do. Tomas, that sounds interesting, it'd be great to see some frames. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Koolhaas Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 (edited) err...yeah, the only problem is right now I only have a DVD copy of our Telecine footage, I dont know how to export still frames from a DVD...I know if I could get the DVD footage into a final cut timeline I could do it, but I cant seem to import this DVD into final Cut (I only just started using final cut recently)...If someone could tell me how, I will post many frames on here and be eternaly greateful, as I have wanted to do this for a while but could never figure out how (I know it's possible because I have imported footage from a DVD before but the ones from the telecine house don't seem to work with final cut). Cheers. Edited October 23, 2006 by Tomas Koolhaas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Koolhaas Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Anyone.....no....oh well, we will just have to wait till I get DVCAM copies then...unless someone can tell me how to import a DVD into final Cut....anyone..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakari Suuronen Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Tomas, I remember brining stuff from dvd to Final Cut through "Mac The Ripper" program. It's free, google it. I remember it was a bit tricky but not impossible. I'd also like to see your footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Featherstone Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 There is a great program dvdxdv http://www.dvdxdv.com/ which is not very expensive that can convert dvd files to quicktime. There is also mac the ripper for other reasons. But if it is something you shot I think dvdxdv should do what you want. -Rob Feathersone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Koolhaas Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 There is a great program dvdxdv http://www.dvdxdv.com/ which is not very expensive that can convert dvd files to quicktime. There is also mac the ripper for other reasons. But if it is something you shot I think dvdxdv should do what you want.-Rob Feathersone Cheers guys, I just got it (DVDxDV), I will give it a shot...If it works..stills will follow, if not...back to the drawing board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus Mulligan-Ferry Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Cheers guys,I just got it (DVDxDV), I will give it a shot...If it works..stills will follow, if not...back to the drawing board. Will snagging a screen capture directly from the DVD work? I know the regular screen capture function is disabled in DVD playback on Macs, but if you download the Capture widget at - Capture Widget - Apple.com -you should be able to open dashboard, click on it and capture a paused DVD image (circumventing the disabled screen capture issue). Anyways, might be easier/quicker. I believe I may have learned this trick from a David Mullen post--One of the many posts full of helpful information he's provided on this site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Koolhaas Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 (edited) Will snagging a screen capture directly from the DVD work? I know the regular screen capture function is disabled in DVD playback on Macs, but if you download the Capture widget at - Capture Widget - Apple.com -you should be able to open dashboard, click on it and capture a paused DVD image (circumventing the disabled screen capture issue). Anyways, might be easier/quicker. I believe I may have learned this trick from a David Mullen post--One of the many posts full of helpful information he's provided on this site. Haha I just read that post too late, I already spent an hour converting the DVD to a quicktime, I have exported some stills but now cant seem to make attachments to my posts....it says O Bytes left before I even make any attachments???? Is it because I am a basic member???? Cheers. Edited October 27, 2006 by Tomas Koolhaas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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