Cross Processing Video Effect

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Grade a clip the way a lab does when film meets the wrong developer, with the color cast in the shadows running opposite to the cast in the highlights.

Strength and curve contrast

Strength blends the graded frame back against the original and works as the master dial. Curve Contrast sets how hard the per-channel S-curves bend, which decides whether the clip reads as a mild period grade or a blown analog one.

Shadow and highlight crossing

Shadow Crossing moves the toe of each channel curve, building color in the dark end. Highlight Crossing moves the shoulder, draining it from the bright end. Moving only one gives a flat color cast, because the crossed look depends on both ends going opposite ways.

Picking a direction

Slide film in C-41 suits footage with hard light and real shadow structure, where the cyan has somewhere to sit. Negative film in E-6 suits soft or overcast footage, since it lifts the shadows instead of deepening them and does not need contrast in the source to work.

Clipping in graded footage

Curve contrast pushes tones toward both ends, so highlights already close to white clip first and take the yellow cast as a flat patch. Lower Curve Contrast before lowering Strength when skies or windows lose their gradation, because Strength pulls back the whole grade while contrast is what caused the clipping.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is cross processing?

Developing film in the chemistry meant for a different film type. Slide film run through C-41 negative chemistry, or negative film run through E-6 slide chemistry, returns contrast and color casts the film was never built to produce.

What is the difference between the two process settings?

Slide film in C-41 gives hard contrast with cyan shadows and yellow highlights. Negative film in E-6 gives lifted milky shadows, an overall blue cast, and less color separation.

Does the grade stay the same across cuts?

Yes. The same curves are applied to every frame and nothing measures the picture, so the grade holds across a sequence instead of drifting shot to shot.

Why do the shadows turn cyan?

The blue channel is curved the opposite way from red and green. Its shadows are lifted while its highlights are pulled down, so dark areas gain blue and bright areas lose it and read as yellow.

What happens to the audio?

It is copied into the export unchanged when the container can hold its codec, and re-encoded when it cannot. A note under the export button says which happened.

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Cross Processing Effect

Recreate cross processed film, where each color channel is bent a different way: cyan shadows sitting under yellow highlights. Choose the C-41 or E-6 direction and set curve contrast, shadow and highlight crossing, and saturation.

Expired Film Video Effect

Age a video like expired color film: shadows and highlights drift to opposite casts, blacks fog up, the emulsion mottles, and grain moves on every frame. Set degradation, crossover, fog, mottling, and grain. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Film Stock Video Emulator

Grade a video to one of seventeen named film stocks, including Portra 400, Kodachrome 64, Velvia 50, CineStill 800T, and Tri-X 400, with grain that moves on every frame and trims for exposure, contrast, grain, and halation. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

HDR Video Effect

Give every frame of a video the tone-mapped HDR look: lifted shadows, compressed highlights, and boosted local contrast. Set local detail, shadow recovery, highlight compression, and saturation. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Redscale Video Effect

Remap every frame of a video to the redscale film palette: deep red shadows, orange midtones, and yellow highlights. Set redscale amount, yellow highlights, blue retention, exposure, and contrast. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Split Toning Video

Tint the shadows and highlights of a video in two different colors, such as teal and orange, while preserving brightness. Set shadow color, highlight color, balance, and mix. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Bleach Bypass Video Effect

Give a video the bleach bypass film look: desaturated color with a silver layer of hard contrast, as used on war films and gritty thrillers. Set bypass strength, silver density, color retention, and contrast. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Cyanotype Video Effect

Print every frame of a video as a cyanotype: Prussian blue shadows, pale paper highlights, and a fixed paper texture of stains and fibre. Set pigment color, exposure, contrast, and depth. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Disposable Camera Video Effect

Give a video the look of a cheap point-and-shoot film camera: harsh flash bloom, faded warm print color, light leaks, vignette, and grain and dust that move on every frame. Set flash strength and film finish. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Instant Camera Video Effect

Grade a video like an instant print: lifted blacks, soft highlights, warm faded color, and print grain that moves on every frame. Set faded color and print grain. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Toy Camera Video Effect

Give a video the look of a plastic toy camera: oversaturated color, crushed shadows, color shift in the corners, and a heavy vignette. Set saturation, crushed shadows, corner color shift, and vignette. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Aerochrome Video Effect

Give a video the false-color infrared look of Kodak Aerochrome: green foliage turns red or magenta while skies stay blue, with film grain that moves on every frame. Set profile, intensity, foliage, and red bloom. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.