Reshade and The Movies?

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Yes sir, I tried. Not worth

Reshade was the last "add-on" I tried for TM, 1 week ago from now. I also tried RTX (not supported), gesodato, and somemore. I tried Reshade with Marty McFly plugins with identical results.

It is true you can tweak some colors and enhance textures, but that's something we already get from Sony Vegas, Premiere..., the software we're used to use. I looked for this plugin because nowadays lighting renderers do the half of the work (I was specifically looking for Ray Tracing). The Movies game runs in Directx 9.0c, which is a pretty early version to work on Ray Tracing and other interesting stuff. That's why I got the same results as using the video editor. When we go for exporting the video, we usually record the footage using Fraps. But we need to record the whole picture and then crop it; in this picture there're multiple icons. Each time I tweak some color grading, brightness, etc..., these icons project shadows over themselves, so that the footage get's blurred.

Then I tried with some Antialiasing and shader effects to see if I could get a better geometry for the models. But once again, it enhances the icons over the screen adding some depth and the game actors and objects threshold get's tight, so it loses realism. It doesn't look better than setting your graphic cards presets for boosted quality. And to be fair, this seems more "secure" to do, because Reshade will tweak everything that appears in the screen.

Nevertheless, Reshade would be an excellent feature if we just apply that visual setting and skip the post-production in Sony Vegas. But applying these visual effects would bring performance issues (even if you run it in performance mode). I also checked a Depth of Field effect which was great because it was tracking the actor during the whole scene (this is something faster than if you do it in video editting, be said). But once again, we duplicate the footage, recording the actor in a chroma key in one footage, and recording the same camera movement in set with no actor. Then we easily merge them and apply the effects on the second footage.

In time consuming, it's a great option anyway, but the same visual presets might work for certain scene conditions (daylight, warm tones...) and not for others. Plus each time I have to select these presets my mouse cursor is moving in the other side of the sceen, and I accidentally clicked on "exit" some times

I never thought about applying reshade to vlc, good point. I still think time investment would be even compared with video-editing. Sony Vegas has a lot of lens flare vfx, but I have to recognise some of these features require extra installations (BCC+, Red Giant Universe...) that we're not that used to run. This is right.

You could also look for lens flare footages. They come ready with chroma key, so you can just adjust alpha channel and overlap. I'd say ReShade would make this work shorten, BUT, as long as you get used to it in Sony Vegas, you'll be faster than if you had to check your video clips one by one (because the preset applies to the whole footage)