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How to get this “old time” visual effect?
I have imported some image sequences for which i would like to make look like this old baseball card…
https://www.freewebs.com/aerograd/1965_Topps_Mickey_Mantle_2.jpgI know I could probably do it in photoshop but since it would be easier to import the sequences straight into AE it would be much easier if there was a way to effect the images in AE itself.
Any ideas?
Thank you!
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4 Replies
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I would say make the card in photoshop, with an alpha channel cutting out the Mick for compositing, and import that into AE along with your image sequences.
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If you want a quick way to do it in AE, it comes with a decent preset called presets -image creative – colorize – sepia. Put that in an ajustment layer and fiddle with the opacity. Also, file-project settings, “blend colors using 1.0 gamma” can blend the colors in yet another pleasing way. Add a hue/sat to your footage to rotate the hues can create offset colors similar to faded in conjunction with contrast tweaking. Finish with noise/grain
https://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/
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digieeffects film damage plugin does a great job of ‘olding’ up footage…
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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All good ideas for making “old film”, but i think what you are looking for is the halftone moire pattern that comes from the low-resolution dot prints used for those old cards.
Personally I would use the CC Ball Action Effect (included in CS3/CS4 not sure about earlier versions) with a grid spacing of something like 1 or 2 and a scatter setting of 0.1, You can adjust the ball size up or down but I wouldn’t go over something like 60 or so. At 60 and below you can get what appears to be a halftone look. Above 60 it starts looking like square pixels (which is one way to get a pixelated effect) as the edges of the balls go outside the gridspace.
Larry S. Evans II
Executive Producer
Digital I Productions
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