Grain the Easy Way
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Filed in: Weekly Tip
Seems like everyone
is talking about making their video look more like
film these days. One characteristic of film is
grain. There are lots of fancy (read expensive)
filters out there for simulating film grain, but
here is an easy and free method for creating grain.
Note: You might have two Noise generators in the Render category. One of them is a native to FCP (FxScript) and the other is from Motion (FxPlug). It’s easy to distinguish them, the FCP as one is black and white and the Motion one is color. This tip used the FCP Noise generator.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.
- Determine the clip you want to effect.
- Select either the Generators pulldown in the Viewer or choose the Video Generators bin in the Effects tab of the Browser and choose Render > Noise.
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Edit the clip on the track above the video clip you want to effect, making sure it’s the same length as the video clip below.
- Toggle your clip overlays on (Option + W).
- Adjust the opacity of the Noise generator in the sequence down to a low value (10–15).
- Right-click on the Noise generator and Choose Composite Mode > Screen.
- If needed, go
back and adjust the opacity level of the noise
generator to taste.
Note: You might have two Noise generators in the Render category. One of them is a native to FCP (FxScript) and the other is from Motion (FxPlug). It’s easy to distinguish them, the FCP as one is black and white and the Motion one is color. This tip used the FCP Noise generator.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.