Expired Film Video Effect

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Make fresh footage look like it was shot on a roll left in a warm drawer for a decade. The color layers decay unevenly, the base fogs over, and patches of the emulsion age faster than others.

Degradation and crossover

Degradation is the master control; everything else scales with it, and 0% leaves the clip untouched. Crossover tints shadows and highlights in opposite directions, blended by brightness, so a face picks up magenta in its shadows while the bright background turns cool.

Base fog

Old film develops density even where no light reached it. Base Fog raises the black point by up to about 52 levels and rescales the tones above it, the washed, low-density look of a roll past its date.

Mottling and grain on video

Mottling modulates exposure and cast in soft patches, so some areas look further gone than others. The pattern stays fixed while the picture moves under it. Grain is redrawn on every frame, 30 times per second of source time, so it reads as moving film rather than a texture pasted on the clip.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is color crossover?

Shadows and highlights take opposite casts. Positive values give magenta shadows and cyan-green highlights, the usual signature of expired color negative; negative values reverse it. It is why expired film cannot be fixed with one white balance change.

Do the mottled patches move?

No. The mottling stays in place from frame to frame, like damage fixed on the emulsion, while the grain changes on every frame.

Why do the mottled patches look smaller in the export?

They are about 14 pixels across in the output frame, so a 1080p export shows them smaller relative to the picture than the 720p preview does.

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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Expired Film Effect

Age a photo like expired stock with controls for degradation, colour crossover, base fog, emulsion mottling, and grain.

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.

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.

Old Film Video Effect

Age a video like old film: faded sepia tones, flickering vertical scratches, dust specks, and worn edges, with the damage changing on every frame. Set age, scratches, dust, and edge wear. 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.

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.

Film Grain Video

Add moving analog film grain to a video. Set grain amount, size, and softness; the grain is redrawn on every frame and its size scales with the output. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Mezzotint Video Effect

Rebuild every frame of a video as a mezzotint print: dense irregular ink pits, velvet blacks, and burnished highlights, with the grain moving on every frame. Set rocking grain, bite, burnish, and plate colour. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Pinhole Video Effect

Make a video look shot through a lensless pinhole camera: soft everywhere, steep light falloff toward the corners, faded blacks, and grain that moves on every frame. Set falloff, image circle, softness, grain, and fade. 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.

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.

Dispersion Video Effect

Break the edges in every frame of a video into particles that drift left, right, up, or down, with a new particle layout on every frame. Set particle amount, travel distance, edge threshold, and direction. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.