Well, unless you recorded it in 24p (like the DVX-100), that "film look" everyone talks about so much won't happen.
See, video, and that's what we're talking about here, there is no digital film (except maybe the RED cam) is recorded in a 30 frame format that is made up of two interleaved fields. Even lines and odd lines. Every frame has these two fields to it- commonly mistakenly referred to as interlacing.
Interlacing is the "other" frames when working with 24 frame footage on a 30 frame source, such as a video tape. To get the 24 frames onto a 30 frame tape some frames are invented and interlaced into the playback in one of two ways: Standard interlacing involves creating a "C" frame out two fields, one from "B" and one from "D", and that can never recover a true progressive 24 frames. That's why Panasonic developed the Advanced interlacing for their DVX-100 cameras. This method lays the frames in a 2:3:3:2 pattern instead of the 2:3:2:3 pattern used in the Standard method.
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So when people are talking about the "film look" it isn't an effect, it's a method of recording and maintaining 24 progressive frames throughout a workflow. Whether it's in SDV or HDV, some cameras use the Advanced interlacing method (2:3:3:2) to record 24 progressive frames onto a 60i video tape.
Okay, there are some "effects" for film look- but they are not "THE film look."
