This has got to be one of the oldest quests in video making, and there's any number of suggested ways to get a 'film look'
One I've used a little, which seems to give the video some 'character' at least is:
Edit your vid as normal and render it in the highest quality you can.
In a new project import that footage twice, one above the other on the timeline.
On the lower one apply an unsharp mask, tweak the settings till you get real sharp edges wihtout introiducing artifacts.
On the upper one apply gaussian blur to about 10%, and reduce opacity to 25%, adjust these to get a desirable look.
Basically this gives the film a slightly blurred look to the contrasty elements, but keeps some hard sharpness to stop it looking simply out of focus.
However, overcook it and it'll look a mess, the blur works against you. Rather like trying to use a soft focus filter on a photographic enlarger (assuming you're using negative film stock), the result is that dark elements bleed into light, whereas if you put such a filter on to the camera the light parts bleed into the dark. So something I plan to try one day is to invert the entire sequence, carry out the above, then re-render reverted to positive. All being well this should give a better look. Don't know.
The whole thing about frame rates etc I don't buy, we use 25fps here and the suggestion that 24 is going to make a difference evades me, what's more important is how that 1/25th exposure is made, film shutters work differently to optical chips, and the idea of progressive scanning sits a bit better with me, however a Canon HV20 I bought had 24p as a film look option, but was utterly crap at filming any movement, so never pursued it.
Usually what's far more important to getting a film look it seems is quality in the scene setup first, maybe a bit of colour de-sat in some circumstances can help too.
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