Television look

[RalpB]

What would be the quickest and easiest way to give a picture a television type look, with lines and such…without any type of plug-ins ?

[LK]

There’s a tip in the tutorial section of this site.
You can use a frame with thin horizontal lines as a mask, then a little bit of blur and cc make the rest. It’s quite an easy and speedy way if you don’t need super-realistic results.
L.

[Keyser_Soze]

RalpB wrote:

What would be the quickest and easiest way to give a picture a television type look, with lines and such…without any type of plug-ins ?

It depends a bit on what you mean with TV-look and how “bad” you want it to look. In addition to what was described above you might want to add some “snow”. Generate a clip with bl/w noise, blur that and apply with logic ops. You could also try to achieve a “ghosting effect” by offseting your image and experiment with logic-ops, don’t know if it will work.
If you want it too look really gritty you could try and output it to VHS and bounce it a few generations and bring it back again. If you want tape distortions as well you can just rip out the tape and step on it and play that. It will be very analog and look actually better than you average tv-plug… but the result will be a bit unpredictable.

[sinancg]

You can achieve the “lines thing” by getting a clip with one white and one black frame and interlacing it. You can then logicop it on your footage.

Sinan Vural

[Keyser_Soze]

LK wrote:

There’s a tip in the tutorial section of this site.
You can use a frame with thin horizontal lines as a mask, then a little bit of blur and cc make the rest. It’s quite an easy and speedy way if you don’t need super-realistic results.
L.

The guide:
http://www.fxguide.com/fxtips-32.html

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