My final movie is too clean!

Hi all,
I have just finished my 15min movie in FCP, I used a JVC GR-D20 mini DV cam, and captured it via firewire to my G5.
Basically, I have watched it back on the TV and think it is way TOO clean and sharp looking and want to make it look a bit more rugged and rough looking...
My questions are these...
1) I know I am gonna have to use some filters like the Nattress G film etc.... which I have, but should I apply the filters to the whole exported movie in a new timeline, or to the hundereds of several individual clips I have in my FCP project timeline... which is better to do? which is quicker?
2) Which filter exactly or which preset from the Nattress will basically give me
more of a unclean, un-News broadcast kind of look?
Thank you in advance...
Rob

I have just finished my 15min movie in FCP, I used a
JVC GR-D20 mini DV cam, and captured it via firewire
to my G5.
Basically, I have watched it back on the TV and think
it is way TOO clean and sharp looking and want to
make it look a bit more rugged and rough looking...
yep, that's video for you.
My questions are these...
1) I know I am gonna have to use some filters like
the Nattress G film etc.... which I have, but should
I apply the filters to the whole exported movie in a
new timeline, or to the hundereds of several
individual clips I have in my FCP project timeline...
which is better to do? which is quicker?
that's up to you. how do you want it to look aesthetically? if you want to dirty the thing on a uniform, project level, take the sequence, nest it to a new sequence and apply what ever filters you want to use to dirty it.
if you want each scene a different level of dirtiness, then you'll have to apply filters to each individual clip in your sequence.
2) Which filter exactly or which preset from the
Nattress will basically give me
more of a unclean, un-News broadcast kind of look?
i don't really think anyone but you can answer this sort of subjective query. if you have G Film, get in there and start playing around. make a sequence withe the same 10 second clip, apply a bunch of presets, render, make changes, render, get a feel for it.
good luck.
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