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Does AE have 'dirty' effects

Does AE have 'dirty' effects
Tue, 13 May 2008 06:51:09 -070
Does AE have effects that can make footage look like it's dirty, old? As if the
footage was shot decades ago and had degraded over time? Also, are there effects
that could make the footage look dirty, as if the footage was shot in a dirty
(eg: desert) environment?

Visual example of what I'm trying to capture:

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Re: Does AE have 'dirty' effects
Tue, 13 May 2008 08:21:32 -070
After Effects has a lot of effects that you can use together to create dirty and
"distressed" looks. A good starting point is to use some of the Noise
& Grain effects
<http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103
a9d3c597-7b3a.html> and blend the noise layers with your original footage.

I looked at the sample that you linked to, and it seems that much of their
"desert" look comes from color correction with something like the
Tritone effect
<http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/WS2E4DBF61-3721-413c-A549-1
21DD9BC4284.html>.

A lot of the "old" look (the flickering) seems to come from animating
(wiggling) the Exposure effect
<http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/WS0053061B-78E2-435a-899E-C
AB519BEF8C2.html>.

There's also a fluctuating vignette that is probably just an elliptical mask
with animated Scale and a high Mask Feather amount.

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Re: Does AE have 'dirty' effects
Thu, 22 May 2008 08:19:50 -070
Thanks Todd for the reply! Sorry I didn't respond sooner... I hadn't realized
you replied. I'm set up to get email notice of replies, but I didn't receive one
for your reply. *puzzled*

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