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Introduction
It's very popular in music videos today to apply a vintage film look to HD or 4K modern footage.
So let's take a look here in Rush, how we can transform this shot into a film-like or vintage look.
So let's go ahead and hit pause.
And let's go over to the color tab on the right.
Applying a film color preset for a vintage look
And from here, from the presets we can choose the Film preset and immediately by using the toggle, you can see the before and after.
You can also increase the intensity of the film look, by moving it to the right and now it looks even more like a film-style look.
You can also go to the Edit tab to make further changes.
Fine-tuning color temperature, tint, and sharpness
So if you want the temperature to be more warm, you can move it to the right, or you can move it to the left to make it more cool.
I'm going to move it to the right to make it more warm.
And then for the tint you can make it more green, or more pink to make more of a pinkish film color, depending on what you're going for.
So I'll make mine a little bit more green looking, I think that looks good.
And then another thing you can do to make it look older is adjusting the sharpening because 4K and HD is very sharp, we can reduce the sharpening to around minus 13 to make it less in focus, that way it looks older.
Enhancing the vintage feel with vignettes
Lastly underneath Advanced we can increase a vignette around the edges, like so by moving it to the left.
You can add some feathering by moving it to the right depending on what you're going for.
So now the color before and after.
It's starting to look a lot more vintage.
And as a bonus tip, a lot of editors will now scale down the footage
Creating a projected film effect with scale and feathering
and add some feathering around the borders to make it look like it was being projected.
So the way you can do that is go to the Crop and Rotate menu here on the right and you can scale down the image like so by moving the slider to the left.
And you can also add edge feathering underneath Appearance.
So I can increase the edge feather until it looks like it's being projected.
So now, just like that, I can even play.
We can see from the color, the before and the after.
And that's how you can make modern footage look more vintage inside of Rush.
What you learned: Make modern video footage look like vintage film
Add a film preset
In the Color panel, click the Film preset. You can adjust the intensity by moving the slider at the bottom of the panel.
Adjust tint and temperature
On the Edit tab in the Color panel, use the Tint and Temperature sliders to give your video more of a green or pink film look.
Fade the film
To make the video look older, drag the Faded Film slider to increase the fading of the image.
Reduce sharpening
Because today’s modern footage is sharp and detailed, reducing the image sharpness makes it look more film-like.
Drag the Sharpen slider to the left to make the video look softer.
Add a vignette
Drag the Vignette Amount slider to the left to add more black to the edges.
Drag the Vignette Feather slider to the right to soften the edges of the vignette.
Scale down and feather the edges
Another popular way to make footage look vintage is to scale down the image so that it appears to be projected onto a screen.
Click the Crop & Rotate icon and then, in the Scale section, drag the Width or Height slider leftward to scale down the video proportionally.
In the Advanced section, drag the Edge Feather slider to add a soft border to the video.
Tip: It’s optional to scale down and feather the edges of the video – it's all subjective.
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