Risograph Video Effect

Often followed by + Contrast + Film Grain

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Print a clip in two riso inks. Each frame splits into a dark and a light ink, screened into halftone dots and slightly out of register, on warm paper.

Inks

Dark Ink and Light Ink set the pair. Blue and fluorescent pink is the classic combination; any strong, contrasting pair works. Intensity blends the print with the original frame.

Misregistration and roughness

Misregistration shifts the layers apart. Print roughness, dropouts, and paper noise change on every frame, which gives the restless, handmade texture of risograph animation and zine video.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is the frame split into two inks?

Shadows go to the dark ink and midtones to the light ink, each screened as halftone dots over the paper color. Where the inks overlap they mix, as layered riso inks do.

What does Misregistration do?

It offsets the two ink layers, as on a riso print where the drums do not line up perfectly. A little gives the handmade look; a lot doubles every edge.

Why does the print texture move?

Dropouts, paper noise, and dot roughness are seeded from each frame's timestamp and change 30 times per second of source time, as if each frame were a separate print run.

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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Risograph Effect

Turn a photo into a Risograph-style print. Control dual-ink palettes, paper color, halftone dots, print roughness, and misregistration.

Turn every frame of a video into a halftone dot screen. Set dot and paper colors, grid spacing, dot scale, and a 45° screen, or sample the dots from the source colors. 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.

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.

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.

Linocut Video Effect

Carve every frame of a video into a linocut print: solid ink shapes, gouged midtone lines, and ragged cut edges that shift on every frame. Set simplify, ink threshold, gouge spacing, and edge carve. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Stipple Video Effect

Redraw every frame of a video as ink stippling or color pointillism, with dot size and spacing that scale with the output. Set color mode, dot size, density, and jitter. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Blueprint Video Effect

Turn every frame of a video into a blueprint drawing: white edge lines on drafting blue with a measured grid. Set edge intensity, blue hue, and grid opacity. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.