Looking for a "Film Filter"

railroadguy · Post by **railroadguy** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:51 pm

Anyone know of a "film filter" for VS10? I have seen this used here on American TV, mostly documentaries and also on TMC (Turner Classic Movies) interviews.

It's shot on video but this filter gives the video the "film look". It's a nice effect.

I found a link to off site filters / transitions here somewhere but I lost it

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:20 pm

Do a search for "film and filter" and you will get quite a few returns, including this one: http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... ilm+filter.

railroadguy · Post by **railroadguy** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:03 pm

Thanks for the link. I found Steve J's posting about Stefan Burgers FREE FXBench (http://www.burgers-transition-site.de/n ... 12006.html ) and looked at and downloaded it. However, I have no idea what to do with it. It's a series of XML scripts. I thought if I moved these XML scripts to VS10 XML directory, as I have dome with Burger's VFX files, I could use them but that is not the case.

Anyone here use FXBench and can give me a quick heads up as how to use these scripts?

NoM.O · Post by **NoM.O** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:27 am

For info on how to use FX Bench see this thread....

http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... ly+fxbench

As for a 'film effect', I have no idea, sorry.

peace.

railroadguy · Post by **railroadguy** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:18 pm

Thank you. Why any programmer these days would hard code suspected program paths is beyond me, much less provide absolutely no documentation on a product.

Anyway, it does work now.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:31 pm

From Stephan Burgers' site:

Please note that the project is currently in prerelease phase, but available to beta testers.
While the software is in a stable state and contains all functionality for a first release, the documentation is still under revision.

Stefan_Burger · Post by **Stefan_Burger** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:14 am

railroadguy wrote:Thank you. Why any programmer these days would hard code suspected program paths is beyond me, much less provide absolutely no documentation on a product.

Anyway, it does work now.

...because otherwise the programmer had to write the installer to search all your drives for a potential host application. Besides of the effort for writing the necessary installer script, people would have complained for the long lasting installation procedure.

This is necessary as FXbench is not just a stand alone application, but also provides plugin-dlls that need to be installed to your video application (that could potentially reside anywhere and could have almost any name as different product versions are supported).

Besides of that, FXbench is still free of charge (I just wish I had a Euro for every download).

I would'nt complain if I get something usefull for free.

Just some thoughts.

Regards, Stefan Burger

railroadguy · Post by **railroadguy** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:19 am

Stefan:

I appreciate your response and you are right, it's free so I should not complain or question. But, writing an installer do check all drives would probably make more people less confused then the few who may complain about the extra time it takes to install. I downloaded this and tried for a few hours to figure it out. Because I don't add programs on the OS drive, I had no idea what was going on. I removed it and a few days later thought this thing "has to work" so maybe someone know the secret.

I understand that development software is hard to document as it's a work in progress, but a simple readme file explaining how to make it work would have been a time saver.

Anyway I am playing with it and will support the project with a donation.

Did not mean to ruffle any feathers, just was confused.

vslb · Post by **vslb** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:00 am

Stefan,
Could you see my post here : http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=11250&start=5 ?

See response in http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?p=109409#109409