adding color to plus-x?

[orchis244]

im shooting plus x and want to add color to the film, either sepia tones or blues (like cyanotype in photography).

im editing in final cut pro (though im TOTALLY new to it. literally installed the software last week.) and i also have adobe after effects.

can i add color through FCP/ after effects or does it have to be added during the telecine transfer??

[Guest]

YES!

It's a short answer, but there's really no point saying more. You can do what ever you want in fcp and after effects(almost). Have Fun!

..damn! not logged in again.
RhcVatni

[mathis]

any idea how to do that in a chemical way directly on film?

- mathis

[David M. Leugers]

Mathis

You can tint and tone your images on b+W film. I have never done this, but I have always wanted to. It is the same process they used during the silent era to color the film stock for effect. It can be very beautiful as I am sure you are aware since you are interested in it. I have seen tint (for the light or clear areas of film) and toner (colors the image changing black and grey to shades of whatever color you use) for sale in camera shops and both can be used on the same piece of film if you want. Sepia toned film was kinda popular for awhile back in the 1940's. I love the amber tinted stock Kodak used to make prints of silent films onto 16mm and R-8mm known as Kodascopes. I think that with a home processor unit tinting and toning should be easy to accomplish. If anyone has done this, please let us know. I too would like to do this.

David

[Guest]

I've tried to tone some Plus-x film, with an Ornano blue toner (Ornano is an italian brand of photographic products; the blue toner is called "Ornano - Viraggio Blu A 103 B"); I guess you'll easily find a similar toner in your camera shop.
It's the same toner you can use to tone your paper prints.
You can also find it in Sepia.

The toner I used is sold in powder. You have to mix three substances, obtain a liquid solution and then immerse the film -developed, fixed and washed- in it, at 20°C, for about a minute.
Then wash again.
The results were quite good, even if I suppose it would be advisable to overexpose a little bit the footage, in order not to get the blacks...too black!
Anyway I'm going to repeat the experiment...

As you know, they used to tone in blue their night shots, during the silent era: I wanted to recreate that weird look...

ciao
Giovanni

[Giovanni]

Sorry for not logginig in.
It was me, Giovanni.

[Guest]

What does a Sepia Tone look like?

(Franklin Labs offers this as an option on Black and White; just curious!)

[David M. Leugers]

Sepia tone is a kinda brown tone, probably the most famous footage in sepia tone is the beginning of "The Wizard of Oz" which on a proper print is sepia tone instead of black and white. I think I'll try Franklin Film lab's sepia tone with the next roll I send Frank. I'll report on the results if anyone is interested.


David

[booper]

I've toned footage using AfterEffects by selecting the footage and going to:
Effect/adjust/hue saturation

Once you get to "Hue Saturation" you can select whatever color you want to change to and how much saturation and lightness you'd like to add to that color. This is to "tone" the footage, as in adding a sepia, not to be confused with Colorizing.

Good luck

[studiocarter]

http://lavender.fortunecity.com/lavende ... iadev.html

an article by Martin Baumgarten

[mattias]

can i add color through FCP/ after effects or does it have to be added during the telecine transfer??

wait a minute, you actually spent close to $2000 on software and you don't even know what it can be used for? and why did you get after effects before you had even evaluated fcp?

anyway, you can use both to add color, no problem. in fcp there's the video filters->image control->sepia filter, and in ae you can add a color matte and play with the transfer mode and opacity (this works in fcp as well), or you can use the color balance tools for a less natural effect...

/matt