Filter/Technique for adding TV like scan lines?

[Yussef Cole]

Well, noise I’m sure you’ve thought of.

To simulate scan lines my idea is:
A couple of solids, color doesn’t matter. Masked so that they take up 1/5 or less of the screen. Scrolling down screen and looping. Then add strobe and change the settings so that they go from white to invisible instead of white to another color. Then mess with the settings for frequency of the strobe so that it looks like they’re flickering.

This is hypothetical, tell me if it works.

[Chad Treanor]

Check the tutorials page here at the cow. There recently was a tutorial on creating the scan lines in AE to make video look like it was playing on an old tv.

Basically you make a gride with widely spaced Y bars and then condensed X bars of the grid, then change the transfer mode, opacity and feathering. This will be fully editable so that you can make the Laptop more “screeny” than the cell phone or vice versa.

hope this helps. and check out the tutorial!

later
Chad Treanor

[Serge Hamad]

Hi,

Venitian blinds with a transfer mode of your choice could also help here.
Salut.
Serge

[Seawild]

Thanks guys! I found that Cow tutorial.. I’ll probally try them all. Have a nice day.
-Chris

[Chris Smith]

I don’t think laptops and cell phones have scan lines because they are color LCD. But I agree with serge, the easiest way me thinks is to add venetian blinds effect, set them to horizontal, get the thickness to your liking then feather them a touch.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com