How can it be donbe: Old movie filter

[Tim Kurkoski]

Premiere 6.x allowed you access to QuickTime’s filters. Premiere Pro, sadly doesn’t have this capability. But if you have QT Pro, you can still do it. You can either just filter your video in QT Pro after you’re finished in Premiere, or use the following workaround:

1. Create a new sequence in Premiere Pro, add a black video matte and make it the length of your project (as long as you need the old movie look for).
2. Turn off the visibility of the track the black matte is on.
3. Export this sequence as a QT file, Animation compressor with Millions+ colors.
4. Open the file in QT Pro. File > Export, choose Animation and Millions+ again, and apply the Film Noise filter.
5. Import the file you created in step 4, and put it in your main sequence above the other clips.

If you want a sepia tone to your clips as well, you can nest the sequence and apply the Tint effect (or whatever your favorite method of tinting a clip is).

[David J]

Magic Bullet Movie Look is on the Premiere Pro distribution CD.

[Mark Weaver]

David,
Unfortunately there isn’t a “Old Film” style in the
Movie Looks plugin. Also this filter is extremly slow!!!
Anything over 15 minutes of video and you might as well go on
vacation. It does produce great results though.

Mark Weaver

[Mark Weaver]

Another method if you have AE is to use the
Fractal noise plugin. I found that playing with
these setting gave me a more real looking Old Film
look. You can also use the “Wiggle” expression on
the position of the layer to give the film a little
bounce.

Mark Weaver

[Steven L. gotz]

Take a look here:

https://www.stevengotz.com/filmgrain

Desaturate, and maybe even apply a little sepia tone.

To create a sepia tone: Just set the clip to Black and White (or desaturate) and create a color matte at RGB(130,115,3) and set the matte on a higher track and set the opacity of the matte to somewhere in the mid 30 range.

Steven
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[David J]

Thanks for that. I know it’s there, but haven’t used it yet.