Re: PXL effect for Premiere?

["Alexander the Great jr." <kanaris@bode.usc.edu>]

> 

> I agree with him that using the actual pixelvision is better. I've also used

> the Diana or Holga camera's and it's pretty hard to replicate their look in

> Photoshop. Anyway say you are holding out to buy a Pixelvision a reasonable

> price, instead of what these people are charging, here is something you can

> try if you already have Premiere and Photoshop 4.0.

> 

> Take your video in Premiere and export it to Numbered Frames at a slower

> framerate say 15fps. (That will make it more jerky)This creates a directory

> with every frame of video saved as a separate image file.

> 

> Then go to Photoshop 4, create an Action that:

> changes the Mode to B&W,

> Boosts the Contrast,

> and Change the Image Size, for example instead of 640x480@72dpi change it to

> 320x200@72dpi. (this will make it more grainy, try different amounts of

> resolution changes till you find what you like.)

> 

> Apply this action to all the frames.

> 

> Then go back to Premiere create a new movie at the original resolution and

> import in your frames, it will have to resize your frames and thus make the

> movie grainy.

> 

> You can copy any of your Photoshop filters from the plugins directory

> directly into Premieres plugins directory and then use them right in

> Premiere, but you would have to do it the way I just stated to change the

> resolution. You could also try applying heavy compression on b&w video other

> filters changing the bit depth from 8 to 5 or 6 and so on. Anyway, it's a

> lot easier and looks better if you have the real thing but there are lots of

> thing you can try digitally.



I agree with the recipe above. I just want to summarize and clarify

the required settings, based on my experiments. 



Mode: B&W

Contrast: Enhance or leave the same.

Frame Rate: 15fps (definitely) 

Image size: 160x120 or 120x90





Alexander Kanaris