Making Digital Or DV Look LIke Film

Hi All,
I was wondering if it is possible in FCS2 to make digital or dv look like film (a movie).
Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated

Yes.
But "film" is a completely subjective term.
If you could be a bit more specific about what you think of when you say "film" we might be able to help you directly. For instance, film can mean grain, contrast, glow, frame rate, motion blur, or screen aspect ratio or any and all of those combined together.
If you will search the FCP forum for FILM LOOK you will find hundreds of threads that can help you decide which of the many pathways to a particular look'n'feel you want to chase. None of these recipes are simple as they require a stack of filters and each filter has many tweakable settings.
There are many third party filter packages available to make your video look EXACTLY like it was shot on film. Expensive and very cool. You can google "film look filters for FCP"
bogiesan

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