Are there any types of lenses that make the movie look more like a movie. You know...bring the quality up from home movie-sih to feature film-ish. If so please elt me know. If there are other ways to achieve this then you can also let me know about that. Thanks!

Eric Striffler

what editing program do you use?

What camera?

There arent really any lenses that can achieve that. Good visual quality is almost exclusively reached by quality lighting. Balanced lighting, ligthing that agrees with the mood, colors/ color scheme, white balance, and right amount of light are things that will help you get a much better quality. Another thing that will help is nice, steady camera shots. It improves the visual appeal a lot.

haha. i wish there was a miracle cure.

like braininabox said, color scheme, white balance, and ESPECIALLY lighting are big factors in making your movie look professional. Another big thing that feature films have is a pretty big depth of field.

Also... the framerate, slow your movies down by about 4%. You'll get a 23.97 FPS frame rate (film), as opposed to the 29.97 of video.

And finally? Try playing with deinterlacing.

Ok thanks.

Paul, two things, did you mean "pretty shallow" depth of field? Because usually film achieves a SHALLOWER DOF, which is what you want to artistically separate the elements of a shot, NOT bigger depth of field.

Also it is not advisable AT ALL to slow your NTSC video down in order to achieve a film like motion. This is what you do with a PAL to film transfer (then it's about a 4% speed change with accompanying audio pitch shift) but ABSOLUTELY NOT with NTSC. With NTSC, you do a reverse 2:3 pull-down, which will take your footage from 60i to 24p. If you did not originate in 24p (like on a DVX or XL2) then you'll need special software to fake the motion.

If you were to just slow down your NTSC footage trying to get 24 fps, you're going to end up running 80% speed. No pitch shift in the world is going to save you from that lethargic pace (and you'll still be working with 60i!)