Creating dust and scratch and other effects.

[Red Tomato]

Hi all,

I'm doing the comp on a independent skate video from Brazil and right now I'm running into some problems to create a few of the visual effects.

One of them is to add some dust and scratch to the video. It came to my mind that I could create a few frames of dust and scratch and then composite it over the image, timing it randomly in order look non-linear.
I don't know it this would be the most effective or time saving approach, so I decided to come over and ask your opinions.

The other effect is the kind of blown up that you get when you start/stop a film camera. I did some research and looked a few shots of a 35mm camera, then I discovered that what I was looking for was some sort of look that is into this clip (from 32 seconds till the end):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsCfnFdvvPk

If anyone has a good idea of how to re-create those effects, please feel free to share it here :)

Thanks all,
Tom

[MrMovie]

Check out Artbeats "film clutter" stock footage:

http://www.artbeats.com/footage/search?category_id=6&ntsc=1&pal=1&hd=1&k=1&oab=1&ofh=1&keywords=film+clutter

They have everything you could want -- dust, scratches, mold, flashes, and even the effect you're looking for, which happens when the end of a roll of film is exposed to light (usually on a "daylight" spool, as opposed to a lab core in a changing bag.)

Depending on your compositing program, there are also plug-ins to create dust and scratches, etc. (such as Monster 5D "movie" plugin.)

[Red Tomato]

Great tip mate!
I was looking for something more like "do it yourself" kind of stuff but this is perfect!
I'm certainly adding this site to my bookmarks now!

Cheers,
Tomaz