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October 28, 2023
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Vintage Vibes Look - Video Quality

  • October 28, 2023
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How do you get that old school vintage look on videos, a bit like MTV cribs where the videos are quite low quality and tend to have a lot of saturation, compared to new cameras where the video quality is crisp, so much you can see every wrinkle on a persons face, how do I make a really high quality video like recorded on a Sony A7s and make it look like a vintage 2010 MTV cribs as an example on Premiere Pro.

 

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    Correct answer Kevin-Monahan

    Hey @gg33228418txyb,

    I like this look. Let me know what you think. You would need AE to create the effect. Perhaps create a .mogrt or some overlays to blend in.

     

    Thanks.

    Kevin

     

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    Kevin-Monahan
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    Kevin-MonahanCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
    Community Manager
    October 30, 2023

    Hey @gg33228418txyb,

    I like this look. Let me know what you think. You would need AE to create the effect. Perhaps create a .mogrt or some overlays to blend in.

     

    Thanks.

    Kevin

     

    Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      October 30, 2023

      Yea, that's a far move heavy-lifting effect, and can really 'sell' being an old VHS camcorder image. This is the kind of stuff you can also do in Resolve if you've got the right plugins.

       

      Either way, it's an intensive bit of work. Pretty cool when done, though ... 😉

      Everyone's mileage always varies ...
        R Neil Haugen
        R Neil Haugen
        Legend
        October 28, 2023

        I've been through presentations by pro colorists on this, that were pretty intense work in Resolve. I've seen others demo things using plugins designed specifically to get that look. Doing it "manually" in Lumetri will be sorta possible, depending on how much you want to emulate this, but will take some futzing ... 

         

        Saturation on most of that, as viewed over the TV set, was heavily set into the mids/lower mids. So a layer of Lumetri, with an HSL key set to Sat and Brightness, is needed. Set the Brightness center key control to lower mids, and extend out enough that with a gentle fade, you don't hit black, and go about to the 75% or 80% spot towards the right side. This focuses the key on the lower to upper mids.

         

        Then adjust Sat key control center to a bit below mid-line, as you want to move the less saturated colors more than the fully saturated ones. Set the width and fade so again, you don't touch down to the left near "unsaturated", and don't get into the heavily saturated tones above about 75% (left to right, right edge being 100% location).

         

        Now use the two slider controls below the key set area, for noise and smoothness, so you can do playback without seeing artifacts/noise/jumpiness of values. Typically only needing a little bit of each.

         

        Now you've kicked up the lower/mid sat areas to "full" sat, with the resulting odd sudden drop from fairly saturated to neutral tones.

         

        But to get blurriness, it takes another  secondary.

         

        So ... add another Lumetri effect. And remember, the 'brighter' something appears, the blurrier it is. So that blurriness can be done (sort of) by going to Lumetri's HSL Secondary tab, setting a key on Luma that is 'full' at the top end, maybe even a quarter of the way down, with a long shallow fade to close to the bottom of the key. Then go to the controls under there and pull Sharpen well into the negative ... adjust to taste, of course.

         

        Next ... instead of removing chromatic aberration, induce some into the image. Just a smidgen, of course.

         

        Doing that should get mostly to what you want to see ... 

        Everyone's mileage always varies ...
          Peru Bob
          Community Expert
          Peru BobCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          October 28, 2023

          Add a blur and play around with Lumetri.

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