Posted by nobody special on 11/13/05 18:53

You can throw some sepia tone into it, or a greenish monochrome tint.
If it's a 40-'s thru 70's kodacolor look you want, you can simulate the
reds all decaying out by reducing just that channel, to simulate the
fading of the print. Adding some shutter effect will help, as will a
subtle flicker in white peak. If it's supposed to be 20's era, you can
adjust the spepd to simulate that it was shot under-cranked and
projected at the wrong speed. The scratches and dust, a little of that
goes a long way. I would prefer to add obvious splices and jump-cuts.
If you are adding period-sounding music, throwing the same jump-cuts in
the music track, offest in time by about a second, helps sell the
effect. A little gate weave helps too. Amazing, how many "defects" of
film are what we pursue to simulate in video, just to make people think
it's film, because film is "better";-)

[Back to original message]