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CCTV footage effect
Any ideas on how to make a short footage look like its been captured on cctv? i after the black and white film but not too pixelated, also with the effects of the recording dot, timer and date moving.
regards
Alison
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4 Replies
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make your template with all the lines on photoshop and either make the background green or transparent(PNG file to keep transparency) then add it onto of your footage and resize so it looks good.
to get a red flashing dot you can u make a tiny circle colour it red then paste it every 5-6 frames along the line so it blinks, thats the simplest way. alter where u paste to for a slow or fast blink
and for the time you can just insert time code with premiere pro and final cut i think.
i had to create the effect and thats how i went about doing it, very very simple but quite effective, there are loads of different more complicated ways to do it though.
ollie
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I think what you’re looking for is the Venetian Blinds preset- that’ll give you some nice lines throughout your footage. For the color, desaturate it perhaps or do that and add some dark green or blue to give it a nice sophisticated look. That time/date/timecode thing you should be able to add easily within After Effects and the blinking light, well there is probably a better way but right not I’d say just draw your dot however you like it, animate the opacity from 0-100-0 and then copy paste those keyframes throughout your timeline.
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FCP has a built-in “viewfinder” effect. KNow anyone who uses FCP?
There used to be similar effects in one or more of the major AE plugin packages in the olden days, can’t recall which, but since I don’t have it installed in CS3, they must have stopped publishing or were charging too much for an update for me to bother.
Toolfarm lists AE plugs, try searching there maybe.
bogiesan
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There are a number of ways to generate a timecode display within AE
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