Toy Camera Video Effect

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Shoot a clip through a plastic lens after the fact. Colors are pushed hard, shadows crush to black, and the corners fall into a dark, color-shifted vignette.

Color and shadows

Saturation pushes colors away from gray, up to double. Crushed Shadows darkens the lower half of the tone curve for the punchy, contrasty look of cross-processed film.

Corners

Corner Color Shift and Vignette act from the center outward, so the subject in the middle stays clean while the edges carry the flaws. Bright outdoor footage with color, such as beaches, streets, and festivals, suits the look.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does the toy camera look come from?

Cheap plastic lenses cannot light the frame evenly, so the corners go dark and shift in color, and the film used with them pushed saturation. Lomography made the flaws a style.

What does Corner Color Shift do?

It separates the red and blue response toward the edges of the frame, so the corners take on a color cast the center does not.

Does the vignette follow the subject?

No. It is centered and fixed for the whole clip, like a real lens.

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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Apply saturated cross-color, crushed shadows, corner color shift, and a heavy optical vignette to a photo.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Solarize Video Effect

Reverse the bright tones in every frame of a video toward a negative while the darks stay put, the darkroom Sabattier look. Set threshold, tone reversal, and color or monochrome output. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Watercolor Video Effect

Paint every frame of a video in watercolor: flat washes of color with sharp edges, raised saturation, and a fixed paper texture. Set brush scale, vibrance, and paper texture. 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.