Fastest Film Grain and Subtitle software

zcream

I have a 100 min indie film. AE CS6 has an excellent Film Grain filter, but it take 6 days to render. Thats how slow it is. And adding subtitles is also clunky.

ffmpeg has a noise filter and takes subtitles - takes 11 hours in total.

Using a simple film plate, AE CS6 can do grain and subtitles in a day.

Hitfilm does not do subtitles but does an excellent 35mm film grain in 7 hours.

Is there any option that will do a render from Prores or Cineform to X264 or x265 with added film grain and subtitles in realtime ?

maxr

Why not to make a prores with the grain and subs and then a x264/5 version?

Resources

https://davidtorcivia.com/articles/film-grain-and-davinci-resolve
with a ~920MB ProRes 4444 4K grain file generated in Nuke to emulate Kodak 5219 // public domain
DL >> https://davidtorcivia.com/user/pages/03.articles/film-grain-and-davinci-resolve/4K_5219.zip

https://studiohanneman.com/blog/knwbase/davinci-resolve/ and their nice little still free utility for srt to xml conversion https://studiohanneman.com/subsimple/

zcream

The grain file - it will not last for 100 min. How does the track matte work ? Is it a layer on top of the video file ? So I need to loop it or duplicate it multiple times to cover the entire track ?

zcream

Got my answer from the tutorial.. Thanks! I will try it out and update this post.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@zcream

If you plan to release film online - I always suggest to use opposite process, good noise reduction, and never use any grain stuff.

zcream

I have chromakey composites. and some grain is necessary for it to look real.

zcream

WOW - 2.2 hours in DR 14 for both grain and subtitles. Thanks a lot @maxr I will be installing another CUDA card, and I will try use only Resolve and Hitfilm in the future. For compositing and grading these are the best options today. At least twice as fast as PPro and AE

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