Saturated Video (Cartoonish) Like Charles Schwab Commercials....

[stedyone]

I have recently seen a couple of commercials for Charles Schwab Investments. The color is so highly saturated it looks just like a cartoon or something. Does anybody watching these forums know how that is done with consumer software?

That is really neat! I've seen some PaintShop tools that do it with still photos but, not with video.

[mats.hogberg]

Saw some AviSynth and/or VirtualDub filter to "cartoonize" video, announced here about a year ago.

/Mats

[guns1inger]

MSU have a neat cartoon filter, but I don't think it is what you are asking for. Theirs gives more of a water colour/wash type finish. I have used it recently a few times, but I don't think it is quite what you're after. But you can look at it here

http://www.compression.ru/video/cartoonizer/index_en.html

You could also look at pushing up the colours, then using a noise filter on high settings to reduce detail.

[mats.hogberg]

Ah - that's the one I was thinking of! Nice to have people with a few brain cells still left around!

/Mats

[dphirschler]

There is another filter that did something similar. Maybe you could use it instead or alongside the MSU Cartoon filter. My brain cells aren't all firing this morning so I can't exactly remember the name of it. But check into these:

Warpsharp
Msharpen
Xsharpen


Darryl

[lordsmurf]

I found these pages of info/guides today

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/cartoon_look/index.html
http://www.digitaljuice.com/community_forums/tm.asp?m=45453
http://www.videoguys.com/Vegas_Tips/TTS02-09.pdf
http://www.slate.com/id/2131287/?nav=ais
http://www.digitaljuice.com/community_forums/tm.asp?m=49994
http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=38561
http://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/read.php?11,153025,153243
http://www.dv-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=260

I have some reading to do.