I 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.
Re: How to get this "old time" visual effect? by Chris Buttacoli on Aug 24, 2009 at 3:39:43 pm
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.
Re: How to get this "old time" visual effect? by Chris Wright on Aug 24, 2009 at 8:17:20 pm
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
Re: How to get this "old time" visual effect? by Larry S. Evans II on Aug 26, 2009 at 5:11:57 pm
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.
