Thermal Camera Video Effect

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Make a clip look like it was shot on a thermal imager. Brightness is mapped through a heat palette, so lights and skin glow while shadows turn cold, with moving sensor noise over the top.

Palette and sensitivity

Palette sets the color map. Sensitivity sets the contrast between hot and cold: high values make small differences stand out, low values keep the image calm.

Detail and noise

Detail blends the original outlines back in so subjects stay readable after the false color. Sensor Noise adds the gritty, shifting texture of a thermal sensor. Night footage with people and lights gives the most convincing result; for green night vision, use the night vision video filter.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this show real temperature?

No. It maps brightness to a heat palette, so bright areas read as hot and dark areas as cold. A real thermal camera measures long-wave infrared, which ordinary footage does not contain.

Which palette should I use?

Ironbow for the classic FLIR look, White Hot or Black Hot for grayscale surveillance footage, Rainbow for a scientific full-spectrum look, Arctic for cool blues, and Lava for reds.

Does the sensor noise move?

Yes. It is seeded from each frame's timestamp and changes 30 times per second of source time, like the noise of a real microbolometer sensor.

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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Thermal Camera Effect

Apply an infrared thermal camera effect to an image. Choose color palettes like Ironbow or White Hot, then adjust sensitivity and sensor noise.

Night Vision Video Filter

Turn a video into night-vision footage: brightness mapped to green, white, amber, or blue phosphor, with gain, highlight bloom, and grain that moves on every frame. Exports MP4 or WebM with the soundtrack.

Comic Book Video Effect

Turn a video into a moving comic panel: black ink outlines and flat cel-shaded color on every frame. Set ink amount, poster levels, edge sensitivity, and color punch. 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.

Colored Pencil Video Effect

Turn a video into a moving colored pencil drawing: dark strokes along edges, light paper where the frame is flat, and angled pencil texture. Set detail, color retention, paper texture, and stroke angle. 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.

Color Splash Video Effect

Keep one color vivid in a video and turn everything else black and white. Pick the color to keep, then set tolerance, edge softness, and background desaturation. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Sketch Video Effect

Turn a video into a moving pencil drawing: graphite shading, traced contours, and paper texture that is redrawn on every frame. Set paper color and each layer's strength. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

X-Ray Video Effect

Turn a video into a blue radiographic plate: inverted tones, emphasized edges, soft bloom, and a cyan film tint. Set plate density, edge detail, bloom, and cyan tint. 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.

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.

Y2K Video Filter

Make a video look like it was shot on an early 2000s digital camera: harsh flash, cool color, RGB fringing, moving sensor noise, and an orange date stamp. Set flash, cool grade, RGB fringe, and date stamp. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.