Everyone loves film. That certain look that our favorites have. All combinations of hue, color saturation or reduction of saturation and film grain combine together to create that particular ‘look’. Creating a film look for your videos can be a tedious task making sure that each scene has the same ‘look’. Digital Film ToolsFilm Stocks has solved the puzzle of how to accomplish this by providing an easy to use plug in that works in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Apple FCP 6/7/X, Apple Motion, Avid Symphony, Media Composer, Newscutter, ans Xpress Pro. Here are the highlights of what you get for only $95.
Film Stocks Feature Highlights:
- 288 analog photographic film presets
- Select from Agfa, Fuji, Ilford, Kodak, Polaroid and Rollei color and black and white film stocks
- Choose from a wide range of historical photographic processes
- Get the skewed color look of cross processing
- Apply Lo-Fi photographic looks from Lomo and Holga toy cameras
- Age your images with the look of faded films
- Create your own film stock presets
- Layering system for multiple film stock application *
- Sophisticated but easy to use masking tools *
- Add a vignette to any preset
- Modify images with presets or sliders
- Quickly search for presets
- 8/16 bit image processing
- Multi-processor acceleration
- Photo plug-in versions
Using this plug in on After Effects is an easy process. I imported my footage and created the comp and put it on the timeline. Then I just open the plug in and select the look that I want from the list and drag it on to the clip and output in the format that I need. That’s it, it is really just that easy. And the results are spectacular. I use Digital Film Tools Film Stocks religiously. I wholeheartedly recommend that you use it on all of your projects.
By: Al Caudullo
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