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Rachelle Kun

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:44:11 PM8/3/24

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Create the look of film on your next digital video using FilmConvert plugin for Premiere Pro & After Effects. Our software seamlessly fits into your current Adobe workflow, helping you to achieve professional results quickly and easily.

We work with a wide range of popular cameras to deliver the most precise picture profiles available. We then use those profiles to match to your chosen film stocks to create a stunning and accurate result.

Our Camera Packs contain accurate data for each Camera Picture Style so we can tailor each film stock to your camera, allowing authentic Film Stock looks across a wide range of cameras and settings. We continue to work directly with camera companies to bring you the latest profiles.

With the majority of people shooting on digital these days, film makers are striving to achieve the desirable qualities of film stocks when grading in post. Often, this requires a good team of colorists, however we bridge that process for everyone! We recreate the grain structure and spectral responses of a variety of modern film stocks, from Kodak to FujiFilm.

Our intuitive software that takes care of the technology so you, the filmmaker, can focus on creating magical cinematic experiences for your audience. Easily add FilmConvert into your existing workflow and in just a few clicks, you are able to choose from 19 motion and still film stocks crafted and optimized scientifically to work with the sensor in your digital camera.

KODAK Digitizing Box comes with personal updates throughout the whole process and when it's all done, you'll receive everything back - your old film and your new digital formats on DVD, Thumb drive or Digital Download. Simple and safe.

I recently downloaded the film convert nitrate plugin for fcpx. I deleted off my finder but its still showing in fcpx. the reason this is a problem is because my project now has a big old 'film convert nitrate' watermark on it. anyone know how to uninstall it?

Plugins like this, and those of MotionVFX, FxFactory and Pixel Films Studios as essentially viruses you download and install. They all have "manager" software used to control the state of the plugins (applying watermarks, etc.) and for all I know, they can watch what you do on your computer. I will grant you that this system of software management is "sanctioned" by Apple, but there are still no details provided on exactly what their software is doing when you install it. One thing it does do is reinstall a plugin any time you delete it from your hard drive...

When Final Cut Pro X was released, the template/plugin installation was specifically recommended that they be installed in your User home folder in a specific path. Although multiple users can use any given machine, the plugin installation was designed to be solely for a single user. There is, however, another location for "all users".

You kind of get the idea by saying that it's a lazy way to color grade correct. However, trying to recreate what film convert is on your own would require a lot of experience color grading to the point where you would have to create your own LUT. One of the benefits of film convert is not only that it recreates different film stocks on your footage, but also that it adjusts that "film stock" so that it adjusts for whatever camera you shot on. For example, the same film stock LUT will look the same on both Sony and Canon cameras, meaning that no matter what camera you use it will accurately recreate that film stock. This also helps quite a lot when trying to match shots from two different cameras, since you can just tell it to adjust for each camera individually on a shot-by-shot basis. Make sense?

I was wondering about this film convert thing because it costs enough money for me to want to research it. And from the few tutorials Ive seen on it, it has color correction/grading tools that I already use in other NLEs...so it seems kind of redundant for the price.

Personally, I love Film Convert. If you have a good calibrated monitor and you audition different stocks, you will no doubt see the difference between the various Fuji and Kodak stocks and you can see what is appropriate based on the look you're after.

It's a matter of taste and after you try it out and get used to it and cross check with your waveform, you will start to develop an eye and see the differences a bit more. But get a decent monitor or you won't have a good benchmark.

What's important is getting the basic signal correction right on that tool so you have a starting point when you want to add finishing LUT's I usually combine film convert with a Vision Color Lut at a low opacity and that combo is a pretty nice look.

There's an Internal preference named "OFX Excluded Plugins" that has a list (some Boris stuff) that you can add FilmConvertNitrate to. Whether it will keep Vegas from crashing I don't know, but when I added NeatVideo5SV to the list, it wasn't available as an effect after restarting Vegas.

@Jamie-Roberts Filmconvert Nitrate gonna yield odd behavior if you even manage to get it working in Vegas. They disregarded Vegas support completely when development of Nitrate began..... The older version of Filmconvert Pro however works very well in Vegas.

Finally found some free time to work on another Insider Knowledge. This time we take a look at a technique I've been using for the last few years. A hidden film mode inside FilmConvert that I don't think I've seen anyone talk about since it was removed years ago.

The technique is to uncover the StatusM profiles which were once part of FilmConvert. They were removed from the software maybe 5-6 years ago. But if you know where to look, they can easily be brought back. As I demonstrate in the video above.

The reason you might want to use StatusM over the standard FilmConvert emulations is that StatusM is emulating a negative film scan as if it just came off the scanner. The standard FilmConvert emulations are emulating the same film scans but then applying a print LUT on top. This is fine if you're after the contrasty look the print LUT imparts. But if you're after a different look, say something a bit more subtle, you will need to battle the print LUT to get there.