How do you give footage the 'old film' look?

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How do you give footage the 'old film' look?

Postby Subtle Sorrow » Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:30 am

I've seen this in quite a few AMVs and would love to know how to do this. I guess there is some effect for it in AE, but I can't find it. Maybe you need to download it or something?

It's the one where it's scribbles over the footage. And if you could point me in the direction of any other similar effects that would be nice to. :)
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Re: How do you give footage the 'old film' look?

Postby blabbler » Sat Jun 27, 2009 6:03 am

magic bullet suite has a plugin called misfire which does this, although it's expensive.

you can fake it with a particle system... use an emitter the width of the screen and set it up so it fires particles at random over the screen in the desired direction. with a few really fast, small particles and motion blur it looks pretty good.
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Re: How do you give footage the 'old film' look?

Postby Vivaldi » Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:49 am

Artbeats has a film effect portfolio that has overlays like that. (pretty sure that's what was used on spoil and grindhouse if that's the kind of things you're talking about) Though It costs a crapload too.
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Re: How do you give footage the 'old film' look?

Postby NS » Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:05 pm

Idk exactly what you're going for but some simple like sepia or Black and white looks or even old film effects can be found in Vegas, and have been since at least vegas 5.0, if you're looking for something more though I'd say go with their suggestions.
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Re: How do you give footage the 'old film' look?

Postby requiett » Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:15 am

The easy solution you're looking for is from a filter by Digieffects called Cinelook.

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Don't bother asking about sources unless you have money to blow on it (which you probably don't) or are resourceful enough to scavenge around for it.

Be sure to use it extensively and with default settings (because they're always the best).
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