Press Release, the app by MacPhun LLC, makes your videos look like Silent Films from Charlie Chaplin times, Retro Music Clips from the days of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe or something completely different – depends on where creativity and talent lead you. With a number of video applications on the App Store today, there are hardly few, which let iPhone (iPod touch) users express their creativity and there are definitely none, which offer what the new app “Silent Film Director” offers. The app lets users direct own cinematography masterpieces, which look like films from the old days of the Movie Era. Users can choose video effects, customize quality and speed of video, add soundtracks, title cards, special transitions, mix videos with photos and more. Video effects inside Silent Film Director depict different milestones in movie history, thus can make videos look like Silent Films from 20s, vintage movies from 50s or hippie style home videos from 60s and 70s. The app has built-in soundtracks and also allows uploading music from iPod and Computer. Another notable feature is a possibility to upload video clips from a special sharing folder via iTunes, unlike most other video apps which support uploading from the camera roll or no video uploading at all.
The movie can be rendered in low, normal, high and HD quality. Users can manually adjust video speed – make it up to 3 times faster or slower than the original. Silent Film Director uses enhanced rendering technology which noticeably speeds up the rendering process, for instance 3 minute video with customized effects, soundtracks, transitions and speed will take approximately 3-5 minutes to render. Enhanced technology allows creating short video clips, as well as longer movies.
Best font to make silent film intertitles ones in the running so far: • bellerose • little lord fontleroy • fontleroy brown • speedball • nickelodeon are they all too ornate? Can’t decide! Jul 08, 2012 I am making a black and white silent movie. Font suggestion for intertitle? + Reply to Thread. Results 1 to 8 of 8 Font suggestion for intertitle? I am making a black and white silent movie, and I am looking for a nice free font to use for the intertitles (is that the right phrase for.
Silent Film Director is available in 2 versions – Standard and PRO. The basic version lets users create films with customizable video effects, manually define speed and quality, record video from inside the app or upload already saved clip, choose one of default soundtracks or upload own music and share videos via social networks. The PRO version of Silent Film Director (available via in-app purchase) adds title cards with authentic Silent Films Fonts, Stylish Transitions, more video editing options and possibility to mix video with pictures. After creating the video users can share it via YouTube, Facebook, Email or save to camera roll. Users can also submit their videos to contest or get featured in a special international video gallery.
This gallery can be accessed from the home screen of the Silent Film Director. Device Requirements:. iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later. 20.3 MB Pricing and Availability: Silent Film Director is live on (limited time sale price). Silent Film Director PRO is available via in-app purchase for additional $0.99 (limited time sale price).
There is a special purchase condition for all iPhone/iPod touch users who own Vintage Video Maker app by MacPhun LLC. Those who already have this app get new Silent Film Director as a Free update. Those who have Vintage Video Maker with in-app purchase get Silent Film Director PRO.
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1) Artwork: You can create your borders in Photoshop, import them into FCE then Matte them as desired 2) Fonts: Scroll thru the Boris Calligraphy (Title 3D) fonts to see if something there suits you. Can't think off hand what silent movie fonts looked like but you have lots to choose from 3) Music: On your own there. Maybe you could work up something with Garage Band or Soundtrack; both of them give you piano loops, not sure if they have what you need 4) Degraded film look: Lots of choices here, ranging from the old film effect in iMovie, to FCE's Sepia filters (one under EffectsVideo FiltersImage Control and another in EffectsQuicktimeColor Tint. Both offer lots of adjustments. Color Tint also gives you a B&W option. You can further effect your shots by layering duplicates of a clip on top of itself and playing with the Composite Modes, filters, etc.
If you are truly serious about getting great results and have some money, you can check out the Nattress Film Effect plug ins For the visual, of course, considerations to lighting and camera work best. 1) Artwork: You can create your borders in Photoshop, import them into FCE then Matte them as desired 2) Fonts: Scroll thru the Boris Calligraphy (Title 3D) fonts to see if something there suits you. Can't think off hand what silent movie fonts looked like but you have lots to choose from 3) Music: On your own there.
Maybe you could work up something with Garage Band or Soundtrack; both of them give you piano loops, not sure if they have what you need 4) Degraded film look: Lots of choices here, ranging from the old film effect in iMovie, to FCE's Sepia filters (one under EffectsVideo FiltersImage Control and another in EffectsQuicktimeColor Tint. Both offer lots of adjustments. Color Tint also gives you a B&W option. You can further effect your shots by layering duplicates of a clip on top of itself and playing with the Composite Modes, filters, etc.
If you are truly serious about getting great results and have some money, you can check out the Nattress Film Effect plug ins For the visual, of course, considerations to lighting and camera work best. With the old film look you should have at least 2 choices:- 1. Select FileExportUsing QuickTime Conversion.
A window will appear. Click Options and the Movie window will appear. You will have to adjust the Settings parameters to suit your equipment. Click on 'Filter' to open up the QT Filters.
One of them is a Film Noise Filter. You could simply export your clips to iMovie, use the 'Aged Film' filter, then bring them back into FCE. Finally use either the 'Desaturate' or 'Sepia' filter to get rid of the colour. Ira, I'd suggest looking into frame rate simulation as well. Old films were filmed at frame rates of 16 to 23fps.
However, they were often projected faster than than they were recorded at giving a speeded up look. You may want to emulate that as well. Or if really clever, figure some way of getting a varied frame rate throughout the movie to simulate hand-cranking. To achieve a lower frame rate look you could outputcrank your sequence using Quicktime conversion at 16 fps, de-interlacing to progressive frames. Then re-import and render to your sequence settings. Usually when going for a film look, you'd want to do some clever (expensive) de-interlacing with adaptive blending of the fields, but since you don't want a 'clean' look I'd settle for the built in de-interlacing available at export. It depends on what you are trying to achieve.
Do you want to make your project look like a silent movie as it appeared in the 1920s, or how that same film would appear today. Silent movies back in the 1920s looked just like any black and white movie shot today.
The 'look' we associate with silent movies - fast motion, grainy picture, high contrast, etc. is due to the aging of the film, endless copying of copies, and being shown at the wrong speed.
If you ever see a silent film that has been properly preserved or restored, especially one from the late 20s, you'll be amazed at how 'modern' they look. As for title cards, there was no set standard across the industry. Usually, they had a border that might have a studio logo or the name written at the top or bottom. Some would even have small illustrations in the corner, but that was rare.
Likewise, there was no typical font. As was suggested previously, you should watch a number of silents online. TCM also shows a different silent movie every Sunday night at Midnight.
Music varied as well, depending on venue. Films shown in small towns would only have a piano, where films shown in big cities could have a full orchestra.
While some films in the late 20s would have a score written for the film, generally the accompanist would work from a set collection of familiar songs/music to set the mood for a scene. For example, if a character on screen was drunk, they'd start playing 'How Dry I Am.'
(This practice was carried over into the Warner Bros. Cartoons to supplement original music by Carl Stalling). Accompanists had to play the full length of the film (no quiet spots like modern movies), so they had to have a full library of music at the ready. While some large-budet films in the late 20s did get original scores (distributed as sheet music), it wasn't really until the Sound era that silent films really got dedicated scores. Chaplin continued to make silent movies well into the sound era - his one concession was music and sound effects because he liked the additional control.
He wrote scores for his films by 'la-la-ing' for a transcriber and went back and scored his earlier features. You can even buy some of Chaplin's music on CD. For the expert on silent film scores, look up info on Carl Davis. He has scored many silent films. If you live in the LA area, you can also visit the Silent Movie Theater.
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