astartexx made me do it and it was fun.

[charmax]

Video Title: Protège Moi
Song Title/Artist: Protège Moi - Placebo
Show: Supernatural
Summary: What's black and white and red all over?
Length/Format: 1.22, (Xvid)
Notes: This is the first part of a vidlet challenge that I've got going with astartexx. The style is inspired by film noir/Sin City.

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Comments

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Why have you not jumped on the SPN bandwagon yet? *wags finger*

It means a lot that you like it especially as you don't know the source that well. I'm glad you picked out a couple of the things with lights. Lighting was really important to this vid and I abused the lighting effect tool in premiere pro 2 remorselessly to make the shots as moody as possible.

The colour effects were done a couple of different ways. A number of them were done using the Leave Color tool which I think was an After effects tool that I plonked into the premiere plug-ins folder (I did that with a bunch of stuff ages ago so I could be wrong) I did try premiere's color pass tool but-oh the ugliness.
The bed, hat and hotel sign were done by exporting them as a sequence of stills and selecting the red by hand in photoshop. The woman with the cross was done by changing the colour, then color passing, then keyframing a light on it. All in all it was a huge pain in the arse and definitely not something I would want to do for a 4 minute vid.

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

I know, I know. *ducks in shame* I'm going to start on it once uni finishes. Probably will have to be after NaNoWriMo, though. *shudders*

Good lord, just reading your explanations makes my eyes cross. It sounds like a hell of a lot of work went into this. But so well worth it.

I tried getting the Shine plug-in, but had no luck with a cracked version. Did you have to buy this and After Effects?

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Parts of the vid were incredibly fiddly but to be honest the hardest part was figuring out how to do it. At one point I think I had four different, but equally cack-handed, attempts at the woman with cross scene.

I did indeed buy my copy of AE. It was a lucky ebay find. I may be able to help you with the plug-in but I'll have to figure out whether I lost the relevant serial number thingy when my external hard drive screwed up. I'll email you.