• Adobe After Effects

  Ageing a video – back to 1965

  Posted by Justin Huss on May 9, 2009 at 8:43 pm

  Hi,

  Basically, I shot a video with a Canon HV20 and I want to age it as if it was shot around 1965. First thing I’m realizing is : damn I shot in widescreen DV, that’s not gonna help me get the old look…

  Ok, what I’d like to know is first: what characteristics did cameras have at the time? When I watch videos of 1965 on youtube, the bright areas (a bright wall for example) are very glowy. The image is blurry as well. The colours are drab. That’s the observations I can make.

  Now I’m trying to get that look, but there are so many filters in After Effects, I need some help (I started AE yesterday). You who have probably done that already, can you give me any hint about how you go about doing that?

  I’m not an absolute newbie, I worked under Maya a lot so I know procedural texturing quite well and already played with the fractal noise for a heat haze effect.

  What I’m asking for is really 2 or 3 filter names or old cameras characteristics that could put me on the track 🙂

  Thanks for reading! Hope you understood all that, I’m French 😛

  Justin Huss replied 17 years ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Chris Wright

  May 10, 2009 at 12:09 am

  do you mean nice 16mm or like the 8mm hand held grainy family beach stuff? Go to https://forums.creativecow.net/forums_search.php
  search keyword 8mm will bring up 10,000 results such as these two.

  https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/953464#953484
  https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/923592#924397

  as for the color, it was like old kodachrome, a lot of brown, some 2 strip color, turqoise and such. There’s an AE preset called bloom that creates haze on bright objects.

  I made a quick 1965 ae project you can try and see if it fits your needs. The settings can be adjusted in final output-combine green into magenta. also, blend colors 1.0 gamma in project settings can do alot too.

  Here’s the 1965.aep project
  https://www.megaupload.com/?d=XZ1GLR3U
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  Justin Huss

  May 10, 2009 at 6:29 am

  So that’s what I forgot: 8mm. Besides I even forgot to search the forum for “8mm”…

  What I’m trying to reproduce is a 1965 8mm handheld camera style. Thanks for the links I’m gonna give it a shot!
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  Justin Huss

  May 11, 2009 at 1:56 pm

  Chris,

  Thanks a lot for that, I had the bloom effect already but it’s really the colour I can’t get quite right yet. Thanks for the project, it’s gonna help me work a lot faster, I didn’t think of breaking things down this way!

  I’ll try to keep you posted if I get any result 🙂

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