Hi, I’ve already done a search on how to do an old film effect in Blender and they’re all a sepia sort of effect.
The effect I’m looking for is one like sepia but without the brown colour to it. I want to have the splodges on the screen and the ‘wandering’ lines, and if it’s possible, to have the frames that jump up the screen (if you know what I mean) and the uneven vignetting (pulsating).
Thanks for your help!
for the visual artifacts, you would have to make an overlay set to ‘multiply’. for the general look of old film you can adjust the color curves in the node editor. for the jumping, you would need to make an f-curve for the offset of the image sequence, and apply noise to it in the segments where you wanted it to jump, I would think. it’s really a pretty complex effect, so you might want to consider using other editors which come with canned effects.
well, blender Diplom did a tutorial on this not long back, obviously you’ll need to coulour correct you own footage to how you want it rather than the sepia tone but the rest of the vid covers scratches and blotches etc
not sure if they cover a pulsating vingetette but thats simply a vingette with a key frame on the x/y size value and a noise modifier on the f curve for those values
Personally, what says “old film” to this old-phart is actually discoloration, not scratched-up plastic.
A theater in our city plays old movies, on 35mm equipment. (In addition to state-of-the-art video …) Some of the films are "restored, (sic)," :rolleyes: while some are simply as they were, back in the 70’s and 80’s. For example, an original print of
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
This print, as a matter of fact, is in very good shape, but its color palette is completely different from what you’d see today on a DVD. Yeah, the DVD’s colors might be “correct,” but they are not the color-scheme that I clearly remember from seeing it for the first time in my youth. The highly-saturated, very red-shifted colors of that piece of film are, I think, the colors for which the movie was originally designed when the film was shot. The movie-makers knew how the colors would come out, on 35mm film in a theater, and they designed the sets, the color schemes and the lighting accordingly. All of that is lost … “restored” away … and modern-day films that are often “shot to digital” don’t do it that way.
Yeah, what we have today is “correct,” free from the technical limits of film in the same way that a CD is free from the technical limits of vinyl. But … those technical limits are part of the show.
So, if you want to make a film “look old,” the first thing that I’d do is to rebalance the color scheme, doing it consistently with what film-stock did. (Data on this is available from sites that are intent on “going the other way.”)
Yeah or even further create a technicolour 2 strip colour pallet. Yuck.