How do you make home movies have the visual quality of cinema movies?

Question

You know what I mean, hopefully. There is a difference in the way something that you filmed in your garage to something filmed on a set, and not just the lighting, etc. I think it may have something do do with the speed of the film of the fps, but I'm not sure.

Answer 1

http://www.urbanfox.tv/production/p15filmlookshoot.htm


on de-interlacing:

http://www.100fps.com/

good luck

Answer 2

What you're seeing is the difference between film and tape. Film is high quality media that has more resolution than tape. It's pretty much impossible to make a movie using film at home unless you're extremely rich, in which case, why not just pay to use a studio?

That being said, you can make some adjustments to movies at home that will bring them closer to the look of film. You'll need a digital camera, a tough PC or mac, and a good editing program like Vegas or Premeire. The programs will have different filters and tools that will allow you to adjust lighting and color as well as add various effects and composite layers of footage together. All this will cost you, but it's enough to get you started in film making.

Answer 3

You should first consider the camera you will be shooting with. Cameras of high qualities produce high quality movies. You should always consider the background of the objects you are filming. Note! Not all cameras would produce a clean picture taken in a dark room. Only special cameras would be able to do so. Note: Garbage-in-garbage out; don't forget that.

It means when the camera being used is of low quality, and the background of the objects being filmed is also dull, you will get a poor quality video. Have a good time.

Answer 4

Short version: Film reacts to light in a way very different from the way CCDs react to light, particularly when the image is darker. There's a lot more detail in a 35mm film image than in even a good camcorder, and for that matter even in a pro-quality digital camera. This is also, for example, why the TV news (soap, talk show, etc.) looks different from a movie.

I spoke years ago (when I was working in digital movies) with an art/tech director who was trying to solve the problem of how to get the "film look" in post-processing on digital media. He thought he'd solved it but I haven't heard of it, and it seems like something that you'd be able to buy as a plugin for Premier or something.

The rest, of course, is like the old joke about how you get to Carnegie Hall -- Practice... :-)

Answer 5

Really, unless you spend $3,000+ on a camera, you cant get the proper frame rate. DV (digital video) is recorded at 30 fps (frames per second). So far, you still can't produce the exact "warm" film look digitally yet but the new cameras on the market do a descent job. They have proper film frame rate and the DV frame rate as well.

Answer 6

There might not be a way to make home movies have the visual quality as cinema movies because once producers are done with the movies they us computors to modify it and add sound and all that stuff. So i think it depends on whether you are computor smart and know how to modify it that way.

Answer 7

Transformers 3, the eco-friendly Latern and Hangover 2. I enjoyed T-3 the terrific. All video clips have been very stable. Hangover 2 is actual humorous, yet ordinary T-3 is a extra useful movie. i circulate 2nd over 3-D.

Answer 8

you neeed a reaaaaaaaaaallly goood camera and an awesome computer...

movies these days are digitized into high definition formats.

after they film the movie everything is put into a computer and edited many ways.. color, sound, with really expensive programs...

regular camcorders just record.. but they are some inexpensive programs that let you edit videos so it still look cool..

Answer 9

You know what makes movies like cinema type movies, is the total silence, expressions of the movies, and no kids(if you really want to get into it), but make it a feel good film if your goign to wqatch it with your kids. Make popcorn, make it seam like your in a real theatre. make believe with yourself or your kids..

Answer 10

To make equivalent video quality, you need to use equivalent video equipment, which is not normally in the budget of "home movie" producers.

Answer 11

if you have a video camera, a pc, and video editing software for the pc, then you could make it cinema quality