Grunge Video Effect

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Make a clip look worn: dirty, scratched, and printed on bad stock. The damage is procedural and changes on every frame, so it behaves like dirt on a moving film strip rather than a still overlay.

Contrast first

Contrast Grade compresses the tones toward a harder, cheaper reproduction. Set it before adding damage, since the dirt and scratches read differently on a flat or a punchy frame.

Damage

Dirt adds broad stains and grit, Scratches thin vertical lines, and Ink Loss patchy dropouts. Faces, captions, and logos lose legibility first. Lower Ink Loss when small details disappear, since its dropouts are the most destructive of the three.

Pairing

Grunge works well on music video footage and title sequences. For an analog tape look instead of worn film, use the VHS video effect.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the three kinds of damage?

Dirt combines coarse patches with fine pixel noise. Scratches are narrow vertical lines. Ink Loss drops out isolated areas the way a weak print loses coverage.

Does the damage change every frame?

Yes. It is seeded from each frame's timestamp and changes 30 times per second of source time, so scratches and dirt flicker like damage on a projected film print.

Is there a texture file behind the dirt?

No. All damage comes from a seeded function of each pixel's position, so it has no fixed resolution and never tiles.

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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Grunge Photo Effect

Distress a photo with procedural dirt, fine scratches, ink loss, and a hard contrast grade using a fixed seed.

VHS Video Effect

Make video look like a worn VHS tape: shifted color, a soft picture, scanlines, tracking errors, dropouts, and head-switching noise at the bottom of the frame, all moving from frame to frame. Exports MP4 or WebM with the 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.

Ink Bleed Video Effect

Print every frame of a video as ink that creeps into paper fibre past its edges, with the fibre redrawn on every frame. Set ink threshold, bleed distance, fibre scale, and fibre resistance. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Newspaper Print Video Effect

Print every frame of a video as a newspaper halftone: black dots on aged newsprint, ink spread, and paper texture that changes on every frame. Set dot size, contrast, ink spread, and paper texture. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Thermal Printer Video Effect

Turn every frame of a video into a 1-bit receipt-printer image with Atkinson or Floyd–Steinberg dithering, paper tint, and ink noise that changes on every frame. Set dither mode, tint, brightness, contrast, and noise. 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.

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.

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.

Crosshatch Video Effect

Redraw every frame of a video as pen-and-ink crosshatching, with darker areas taking more passes at crossing angles and the hand wobble redrawn on every frame. Set line spacing, nib weight, wobble, and contour line. 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.

Engraving Video Effect

Turn every frame of a video into an antique engraving: hatch lines that follow the form, crosshatching in the shadows, and etched edges that move slightly on every frame. Set ink and paper colors, exposure, and line density. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.