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Anamorphic lens flare for Creation Film Effects

CREATION FILM EFFECTS
For Adobe After Effects

Lens flare element

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Create an Old Film Look in After Effects
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Old Film Effect lens flare design

What is it?

Creation Film Effects is a huge collection of authentic-looking effects for making your footage look like old or damaged film in Adobe After Effects. It comes with 40 film-look presets, so you can just drop in your footage and render out a variety of looks, ranging from the earliest experimental films of the 1800's to a modern day film look.

You can also build your own film look by adding any of the 350 included effects such as dust, hair, scratches, color grading, light leaks, film burns, flickers, transitions, intros, outros, vignettes, and more. Effects can be customized with easy-to-use slider controls to get the perfect look.

Turn your footage into an old film!

old-fashioned flourish divider element

40 Old Film Looks for your Footage

...Or make your own film-look with over 300 custom effects

Empty film projector screen background

Features

  • 40 Old Film Presets – A variety of customizable, old & damaged film-looks. Just drop in your footage and render.

  • Custom Overlays – A variety of custom textures of dirt, scratches, hair, burns, mold, and more.

  • Stock Footage – 28 stock footage clips (over 9 minutes) of dust and scratches, light leaks, projector flickers, perforations, film leader countdowns, and more.

  • Transition Effects – Over 50 filmic transition effects, most of which can simply be copied and pasted over the cuts in your footage.

  • Intros & Outros – 28 stylized effects for the beginning or end of your old film.

  • Audio Effects Includes filters for the audio in your footage, as well as 17 audio clips of film projectors, cameras, crackling, and electronic hum.

  • Easy Customization – Adjust effects with easy-to-use slider controls to get the perfect look. Easily hide or turn down effects to decrease the amount of damage.

Creation Film Effects tutorial for After Effects

This tutorial explains what you need to know to use the Creation Film Effects template, and walks you through building your own old-film look.

Preview the 40 old film filter presets for your footage

See all 40 old-film presets in action. Use this video as a reference to select a preset for your footage.

Old celluloid film strip texture with perforations
Creation Film Effects lens flare element

Need to Know

  • This template is compatible with Adobe After Effects, versions CS6 and all later versions. Works on both PCs and Macs. No plugins required. Last update: Sep 19, 2019.

  • All comps are HD 1920x1080. For exporting in 4K, comps can be upscaled. Old film should not look high-res. Since the effects lower the resolution of your footage with blur and grain, you can simply scale it up without worrying about resolution loss.

  • Detailed instructions are found in the video tutorial, and inside the template.

  • Footage and music in demo video not included. 

  • This template has been "universalized", so it will work in After Effects running in any language.

The Creation Film Effects template is not a plugin, so there is nothing to install. Rather, it's an Adobe After Effects project file, commonly known as a "template" because the work is already done and the user needs only to insert their footage and make their own adjustments. This template is compatible with version CS6 as well as all later versions of After Effects.

Creation Film Effects contains copyrighted intellectual property. The animations you create with this product are 100% yours and can be used for commercial purposes, but the sharing or online posting of project files with or for anyone other than a client is prohibited. See the Terms and Conditions for more details.

Positive and/or negative feedback is appreciated. Use the contact page to send me a message.

A deer in a meadow with a historic old film shutter effect
A little girl opening presents on Christmas morning with an old-fashioned 1960s 16mm film effect

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