• Adobe After Effects

  how to get old film effect?

  Posted by Ditha Angraini on February 18, 2007 at 8:40 pm

  Hello all,

  I’m using After Effects 6.5 and looking for an efficient technique to get an old-film/grainy look. How can this be achieved? If there’s an efficient way of doing it, that would be great as there are quite a large number of footage to be done, but otherwise, the long way is still good to know.

  Thank you 🙂

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  Bret Williams replied 19 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Alexxx

  February 18, 2007 at 11:55 pm

  Hi there,

  Short way = MagicBullet / Tinderbox plugin – both support this “look”.

  Long way =
  – Create manual overlays of a vignette and multiply onto footage
  – keyframe and wiggle the brightness/contrast filter
  – Use PS to create some grunge textures (scanning or manually drawing) and overlay them randomly and subtly onto the footage as the old film often stained
  – Scan some hairs in and overlay them for 1 or 2 frames here an there, animate them traveling vertically across the screen or flickering (bend etc.) on the spot for a few frames.
  – Animate the film sliding 0-40pixels left to right over 50 or so frames. This simulate gate weave
  – Use the time remapping to slow down and speed up the footage slightly (for when film were hand cranked)

  You can go on with many more little details but that should get you started. A lot of work – hence the plugins 😉

  Alex

  http://www.lightdrop.com.au
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  Justin Productions

  February 19, 2007 at 12:05 am

  https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/897761
  https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/873945
  https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/856780
  https://forums.creativecow.net/archivepost/2/670687
  https://forums.creativecow.net/archivepost/2/535441
  https://library.creativecow.net/articles/graham_doug/film_look.php

  Hope this helps.

  Justin Productions
  Tangerin01@hotmail.com
  Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional
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  Ditha Angraini

  February 19, 2007 at 12:10 am

  Thanks a lot guys 🙂 It would be very helpful. Well I better get crackin’ and do this old film style video 🙂

  Thanks again.

  to learn the true meaning of victory, go and ask the defeated warrior
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  Bret Williams

  February 19, 2007 at 8:30 am

  If you’re using QT Pro you can do it right in quicktime with the sepia and film grain film scratches.

  But even better, if you’ve got FCP on your system you can use plugins like Aged Film LE.

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