[MacDV] Old Movie Look

[Richard Dalziel-Sharpe]

  Again, not exactly FCP but iMovieHD 6 has a black and white filter,  
a sepia filter and another that puts on scratches and jiggles the  
frame about.
Unless what you are talking about is the speeded up movement apparent  
from the lower frame rate of silent movies.
Silent movies were shot at around 16fps whereas since the advent of  
sound in the early 1930's movies have used 24fps as the standard. The  
change that is apparent when watching silent movies now is because of  
this difference in the fps. You should remember that when these  
movies were originally shown, they were projected at the correct  
speed, so that the acceleration that we now regard as part of the  
humour of silent films was not intended or used by the directors and  
actors of the time.
So my approach would be to fiddle with the time to change the  
apparent speed of your footage and apply a black and white or sepia  
filter.
If you want to do it using FCP, I am pretty sure that a Google search  
would find you a tool for the old film look, that is the scratches.  
There are filters for both black and white and sepia.
Hope this helps,
Richard Dalziel-Sharpe
Australia

On 16/11/2006, at 7:18 AM, Vtstream wrote:

> Not exactly an FCP solution and I'm sure there is another way to do  
> this but.....
> I saw a segment where someone played the footage on a Black and White
> TV and then shot the screen with a minidv camera set on 24p. 
> (Panasonic AG dv100) The result looked like an old time movie to me.
>
> Djwp <djwp1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Anyone have any advice on how to use Final Cut Pro to give video
> footage that old silent move look?
>
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