"True Blood" Title sequence processing????

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Does anyone have any idea how to re-create the effects used in the opening titles of True Blood, as i really like the effect? To me it looks like a combination of cross processing and de-saturating, but thats just guessing.
 
Paulie-W said:
Does anyone have any idea how to re-create the effects used in the opening titles of True Blood, as i really like the effect? To me it looks like a combination of cross processing and de-saturating, but thats just guessing.
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I just want to add that True Blood is a brilliantly deranged program that I look forward to every week. I shall keep a look out for the titles when I watch the next episode.
 
Cheers mate...
 
truely awesome show and the title sequence soundtrack is brilliant. Jace Everett - Bad Things.

On a more relative note aint got a clue about processing just saw title and got excited lol will be keeping an eye on this ***.
 
This kind of thing used to be done in telecine but these days, at least on a show like this, it'll be Flame or similar. Bear in mind that some of what you perceive comes from the stuttering they've introduced to the playback but other than that it's fair to say, that there's nothing here that you couldn't do in PS or Gimp. Some footage has been treated differently to others but it all looks like fairly basic grading. It doesn't look to me like much more than some levels adjustment and colour grading that's introduced some curve crossover. You can do this with the curve tool but I've also had good results with the colour balance tool where you can mess with correction and gradings in highlight, mid and shadow areas. Start off with cool (blue) shadows and warm up (yellow going red) the highlights and mid tones then adjust the result with the levels tool. Don't compensate luminance in the balance tool.

You'll need to have shot in RAW with a camera that supports at least 10 bits of colour. You'll be pushing it quite a lot and 89 bits will band.
 
I love trueblood! Can't wait for season 3 to start!! :D
 
now waiting for season 4. we are addicted to it here. best thing to hit tv for a long time.:D
 
kimaldis said:
This kind of thing used to be done in telecine but these days, at least on a show like this, it'll be Flame or similar. Bear in mind that some of what you perceive comes from the stuttering they've introduced to the playback but other than that it's fair to say, that there's nothing here that you couldn't do in PS or Gimp. Some footage has been treated differently to others but it all looks like fairly basic grading. It doesn't look to me like much more than some levels adjustment and colour grading that's introduced some curve crossover. You can do this with the curve tool but I've also had good results with the colour balance tool where you can mess with correction and gradings in highlight, mid and shadow areas. Start off with cool (blue) shadows and warm up (yellow going red) the highlights and mid tones then adjust the result with the levels tool. Don't compensate luminance in the balance tool.

You'll need to have shot in RAW with a camera that supports at least 10 bits of colour. You'll be pushing it quite a lot and 89 bits will band.
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:eek: Whoh, thanks for the info Kim. Much appreciated :thumbs:
 
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