In this video - a recipe for that vintage analog film treatment in Adobe After Effects. We'll cover 9 key elements - you can mix and match or dial things up or down for all kinds of different film effects!  

 

PROJECT SETTINGS

HD 1920X1080 • 16 BIT COLOR MODE

 

Layers below are listed as they appear in the project:

 

GATE WEAVE (Adjustment Layer)

TRANSFORM Effect:

• Position (expression): x = wiggle(12, .5)[0]; y = wiggle(3, .15, 3, 4)[1]; [x, y] Scale: 101.5%

 

GRAIN (Adjustment Layer)

NOISE:

• Amount 10%

GAUSSIAN BLUR:

• Blurriness 6

UNSHARP MASK:

• Amount 300
• Radius 3

 

SCRATCHES (Solid Layer)

Multiply Mode - Scale 100% 2000%

FRACTAL NOISE:

• Invert: On
• Contrast: 200
• Brightness: 110
• Uniform Scaling: Off
• Scale Width: 25
• Scale Height: 10000
• Evolution (expression): time * 200

TURBULENT DISPLACE:

• Amount: 10 with expression wiggle(10, 5)
• Size: 50 with expression wiggle(10, 10)
• Complexity: 3 Evolution (expression): time * 24

 

BLOBS (Solid Layer)

Multiply Mode

FRACTAL NOISE

• Fractal Type: Dynamic
• Invert: On
• Contrast: 1875
• Brightness: 880
• Scale: 200
• Random Seed (expression): time * 100

CC TONER

• Midtones: #2C5F4A

 

DAMAGE (Solid Layer)

Normal Mode

FRACTAL NOISE

• Contrast: 1000
• Brightness: -460
• Uniform Scaling: Off
• Scale Width: 300
• Scale Height: 500 with expression wiggle(24, 400)
• Complexity
• Random Seed (expression): time * 24

EXTRACT

• Black Point: 20
• Black Softness: 20

FRACTAL NOISE

• Contrast: 313
• Brightness: 40
• Scale: 50%
• Blending Mode: Hard Light

CC TONER

• Midtones: #2FC35E

 

DUST (Solid Layer)

Normal Mode

FRACTAL NOISE:

• Fractal type: Smeary
• Invert: On
• Contrast: 3000
• Brightness: -2925
• Scale: 200%
• Complexity: 3
• Sub Influence: 30%
• Sub Scaling: 50%
• Random Seed (expression): time * 24

SET CHANNELS:

• Set Alpha to Source: Luminance

NOISE:

• Amount: 100%

UNSHARP MASK:

• Amount: 200
• Radius: 2

GAUSSIAN BLUR:

• Blurriness: 3

 

FLICKER (Adjustment Layer)

EXPOSURE

• Exposure (expression): wiggle(12, .1)

 

COLOR CORRECTION (Adjustment Layer)

GLOW:

• Glow Threshold: 50%
• Glow Radius: 500
• Glow Intensity: 0.2
• Glow Operation: Screen

CHANNEL MIXER:

• Blue-Green: 50
• Blue-Blue: 50

LUMETRI COLOR:

• Creative>Look: Cinespace 2383sRGB6bit
• Highlight Tint: Light Blue/Cyan

CC VIGNETTE:

• Amount: 50

LEVELS:

• Output Black: 2500
• Output White: 30000

 

LIGHT LEAKS (Solid Layer)

Screen Mode

FRACTAL NOISE:

• Invert: On
• Contrast: 60
• Brightness: -30
• Uniform Scaling: Off
• Scale Width: 4000
• Scale Height: 8000
• Complexity: 2
• Evolution (expression): time * 400

CC TONER:

• Tones: Pentatone
• Midtones (expression): wiggle(5, 1)
• Darktones: #313A4B

FRACTAL NOISE:

• Brightness: -20
• Uniform Scaling: Off
• Scale Width: 3000
• Scale Height: 6000
• Complexity: 1
• Evolution (expression): time * 100