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The second most popular topic people want to find on the site is "making video look like film" (or something similar).

So here are all our articles on the technology and techniques required to make video look more like film.

 

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MAKING VIDEO LOOK LIKE FILM - THE COMPLETE LIST...

PRE AND POST PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES
Making DV Look Like Film this is part 1 of a piece for CCE magazine on what to do at the shooting stage to improve your chances of achieving a film look. Includes tips for those with both large and small budgets.
You've Got The Look - Making video look more like film - and making film look even better....We look at how Joel and Ethan Coen's movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou? was digitally enhanced, and how a video of Steven Spielberg's was made to look like film.
So you want to make video look like film
- Can you or can't you? This was our first article on this subject written by D Gary Grady who I met in the VX2K forum. He wrote this excellent answer to a post on the forum. I liked it so much that I asked if I could use it on the site.
Making Video look like film - in post Michael Robinson also a veteran of the VX2K forum wrote this piece which follows on nicely from Gary's. He offers hints and tips to try in post.

EQUIPMENT
DV gets the film look - information on the new Mini35 Digital adapter from P+S Technik. An amazing bit of kit we discovered at IBC. Plus, JVC's CineLine DV cameras - two-third inch CCD camcorders for the video-for-film market.
High Definition is George Lucas' favourite alternative to film, but it can't do all celluloid can do - However, it is getting better, as Panasonic's new Variable Frame Rate HD camcorder shows.... Plus news on other new HD and non-HD cameras.
OTHER SITES TO TAKE A LOOK AT
How to make digital video sound like film. www.dv.com/magazine/2001/0501/rose0501.html
The Frame Movie Mode for the Canon XL1 Explained an article by Michael Pappas
www.bealecorner.com
www.victorfilmgroup.com
www.2-pop.com
www.adamwilt.com

David Fox and Christina Fox