Vintage Feel Using Burst Mode with a 7D

Last week I posted about a DIY film to digital conversion. Today we’ve got another cool DIY trick that Ryan Hargrave worked out. Using his 7D in Burst Mode he used still images rather than video to create an old time flicker feel. The trick is cool, and the kids super cute.

His process was pretty straightforward too, something I’d like to give a shot myself:

I shot everything at JPEG-small resolution on burst mode so I would have a sizable buffer.

Then I used Quicktime 7 to open all the images as an image sequence at 12fps – Saved that out as ProRes 422 – 12fps at full resolution.

I took that file and brought it into a Final Cut 1920 x 1080 ProRes 422 23.98fps sequence and got the scale/crop that I wanted on each “scene”. I render that into a “working file”. Technically I could have applied all my effects to this sequence, but I am on an older Mac Book Pro and it chokes on the large native movie… so I rendered it out instead… plus I’m not worried about degradation here.

So now I have a 1920 x 1080 ProRes 23.98fps movie file(s). These are basically my working files that I import into FCP and apply all the effects to and cut up for the edits.

Ryan used Colorista II to play with the color and feel, and Magic Bullet Misfire to add the scratched film look.

Thanks to Peta Pixel for the story.

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5D Used to Convert 8mm to Digital

This is some seriously awesome shit. It took James Miller two years to get this working, but it’s a big step for a really cool DIY. Read the full background on how he did it over at Planet5D and then take a look at the footage itself.

PS: I’ve been super MIA for a while. That should be changing soon. Big things!

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