Nightvision simulation

[wavex]

Hi everyone,

I need to convert DV footage to resemble a nightvision-look (greenish with grain). Is there a low cost solution to this ? I've seen an adobe after effect plugin which can do it but that costs 300$. Which is quit a lot for a onetime only effect (nope no <insert your famous rolemodel here> home-movies stuff).
Thanks,

WaveX

[tdan]

Most of the lower end packages have both color adjustment (which you can use to make it green) and grain effects. I just fired up Windows Movie Maker, and it has them. I also know that my Vegas Movie Studio can do it too.

Dan

[SLK001]

AviSynth can do this relatively easy. You can adjust the colors to a dark green and add grain with a filter called "Addgrain".

Did a quick experiment and used:

addgrain( 1199,0.3,0.3)

as a good starting point. Best of all, it's free.

[SLK001]

Here's the results of my quick test:



PRE MODIFICATION IMAGE



MODIFIED IMAGE

Using this script:

directshowsource("D:BombSquad.wmv")

addgrain( 1199,0.3,0.3)

tweak(cont=.7,bright=-10)

converttoRGB()

RGBAdjust(0,1.1,0,1)

converttoYUY2()