Day for night effect
by Benjamin Daines
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Feb 8, 2008 at 3:00:42 pm
I am using Final Cut Studio 4 to edit, so I don't have Color. I need to soot in a well lit room and then make it look like it was filmed in candle light and have a candle burning on a table. Any idea how to do this? Obviously it needs to look pretty realistic.
Re: Day for night effect by Ed Dooley on Feb 8, 2008 at 3:28:22 pm
My suggestion is..... drum roll........ do a search of this forum!
There are lots of suggestions if you simply do a search,
there's even a free plug-in.
Ed
Re: Day for night effect by Dave LaRonde on Feb 8, 2008 at 5:34:44 pm
Well, let's put on our thinking caps..... What would a room look like if it were actually lit by a single candle?
Would it be evenly-lit, or would light intensity fall off in some ratio of distance from the source? Can you position lighting instuments to light the area near the candle well, and then fall off convincingly, considering video's limited contrast range?
Do candles FLICKER? Can you think of ways to get the same look from your lighting instruments?
Where does the light come from a candle? Basically a single point? What implications does that hold for your light placement?
