How To Use A Grain Card While Compositing Still Elements

James Whiffin on Mar 29th 2012 with 8 comments

This tutorial discusses grain cards and how to effortlessly composite them using the match grain effect for fast rendering, authentic grain.

Tutorial

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I'm a freelance VFX artist from Brisbane. Please check out my youtube channel JamesWhiffinVFX and my website at vfxbyjames.info

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Again I apologise for the vague/bad preview, but for those who haven’t used a grain card before I promise this tutorial will be worthwhile.
sheila
What is this Potatono-OOPViews677 file, I get when trying to download the video? It does not play and it’s the second tutorial that’s done that. Can we no longer download these video’s to our computers

http://www.jonathandane.co.uk Jon
Do you need to re-shoot your camera’s ‘grain card’ depending on what ISO your shooting in? Or can you shoot one ‘grain card’ at say 160 ISO and use it for any shot with any ISO?

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My camera doesn’t have ISO settings so I can’t tell you for sure, but I believe that the ISO doesn’t matter. When filming with the lens cap on, it’s so dark that no matter what ISO you use there should be the same amount of grain (as the image is pitch black).
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Update: I’ve just found out that on the canon 5 & 7D you will need a high ISO setting to get any noticeable grain, so the ISO is important!

peter
what a bizarre example…..
gnugnushka
James,
thanks for very useful tutorial. Any chance you would share your grain card collection with us.