security cam look

[Emma Mcneill]

Just add noise, intermittent blur, some image roll, take away any clarity or sharpness in the footage, add useless timecode information, date, etc and blow out the exposure.

no plugin needed just a bit of time.

[David Roth weiss]

There’s no doubt it, Graeme Natress’ TV Effects in his Big Box of Tricks would make this easier. https://www.nattress.com/Products/BigBox/Bigbox.htm

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[Mark Raudonis]

try all of the above, plus, you may want to try “down rezzing” the clip into off-line RT. That really looks like crap! Might just do the trick for you! Or, change it to black and white, and alter the frame rate to 15 fps.

Finally, the thing that “sells” the security cam look the most is camera placement. If the angle is “high and wide” and locked down, that’s going to look the most like a security cam. Anything else is just going to look fake.

Mark

[David Bogie]

In the olden days, we’d have simply shot it. Take your clean video, play it back on an old CRT, and just shoot it with a security camera. Add more noise and junk if you need to but, honestly, you can tweak these filters and animation overlays for days and still only get something that looks unacceptably fake.

bogiesan

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