I recently got to spend a week in Hawaii with seven of my friends and naturally I took my camera.

Although it was an absolute pain to separate my computer, camera and microphone into different containers to be screened before boarding the plane it turned out to be absolutely worth it. I ended up shooting about an hour and a half’s worth of footage which I then edited down to about fifteen minutes. Then I broke that down into a YouTube version which is what you see above.

I colored a lot of the clips you see above individually in post to give it a slight old-school feel. However, at one point I just started copying and pasting the same effect onto clips with similar subject matter because the difference was very minute and I have other stuff I have to work on.

Anyway, I found that with a gaussian soft edge border and some color correction into the blue/cyan area of the color wheel and a slight adjustment of the contrast with the proc amp tool (my favorite video correction tool in Final Cut) that you get a High Definition version of older film. Cool, huh?

- Ted