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Creating the old school filmy-trail effect you see in 80’s / 70’s concert footage
I know youve all seen this effect, it is really quite nostalgic, Im interested in duplicating it in AE.
Here is the effect to my best description:
On old concert footage you will always see it happen to lights and rteflections of lights off of guitars, its got something to do with the film or the transfer process of days of old. It creates long lines off of the brightest spots, due to the camera movement. Its as if the film is burned temporarily on that specific spot and it takes a while for it to go back to complete normality oon the actual film frames.Ive tried to simply key out the brightest footage on a seperate layer and just adding trails with echo n such but it never really looks like i want.
Any Ideas on how to recreate and / or educated knowledge of why that effect happens with older film would be greatly appreciated.
Sir Hamilton
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3 Replies
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Hi,
The effect you are talking about was not, and cannot be created with film.
The first video cameras had tubes instead of CCDs. And the tubes used to leave those traces. Later when IT (Inter-transfer) chips where used there was a smear effect when shooting a bright spot. To eliminate/reduce this effect the FIT (Frame Inter-transfer) chip was created.
Note that “LDK” from the beginning used an IT chip but with a shutter in front of the chip to eliminate the smear effect.Sorry but I can’t go into more details on this one as my English won’t be good enough.
As to how to recreate the effect in AE. I must pass for now. There were a couple of threads about this FX. You may want to make a search including the archive. And I think that there were some cool workarounds.
Salut.
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I think someone here wrote a tutorial on this.
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I’ve done this before. Crush the hell out of the levels till you get just the very brightest spots (or use threshold effect). Now motion track the few spots you have. Paste the motion track data to the position parameter of your favorite particle system ( I use Particular). Tweak the particles to be soft white spheres that lose scale over time so they create a tail that dies out. Tweak it correctly and the effect is almost identicle to the old tube smear.
I can tell you that even the older telecin
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