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A good film look

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XDestruction

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what can i use to give my footage a good film like look
(tints based around films like TRANSFORMERS is the look i'm going for)

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Axel Wilkinson

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You mean that look where everyone's faces are completely orange, and everything else is teal?

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XDestruction

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yeh that's the one

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XDestruction

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does anyone have any ideas on how to do it?

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Axel Wilkinson

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Stu Maschwitz discusses the techniques in several different software titles on his blog. HitFilm isn't discussed, but the techniques discussed should be helpful.

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For the transformers color:

Make sure you have a "flat image" of your footage. This means filming with a lower saturation and contrast setting.

Put on your footage:
- Hue Shift and increase the saturation in the filter
- Color correction wheels:
Upper wheel in blue-ish(don't put it too far down)
Middle wheel in orange(again not too far)and increase the saturation on the middle wheel a bit
Lower wheel neutral.

- Crush blacks&whites: about 0.05 - 0.10 should be enough.

This worked for my footage but ofcourse every footage looks different so you have to play with it a little bit.
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Axel,
I know you guys covered color correcting a little bit in one of you tutorials already, but I would like to see a dedicated tutorial on color correcting using HitFilm tools.

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budwzr

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You need to color mask, not color correct. You can't do it adjusting hue. In fact, you can't even do it on a single track of video. It has to be composited.

Maybe you can Mickey mouse it with rotating hue, but it will look like MM.

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Simon K Jones

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For the kind of look he's going for you don't need to get into multi-layer grading, budwzr. Should work fine using the grading tools.

However, it's worth mentioning that set and costume design plays a big part in the look of Michael Bay's films. If you look at Transformers, the entire colour palette is directed towards that blue/orange look. They enhance it loads in post, of course, but frame composition is also very important.

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XDestruction

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Thankyou all for your help

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Biq

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You mean that look where everyone's faces are completely orange, and everything else is teal?



Aah! "Color Grading" that's the ticket I bet :smile:


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