How to shoot, edit and grade your film footage to evoke the feel of days gone by
Final Cut Pro
Developer Apple Inc
Difficulty
Time needed
15
Download available
Your iPhone’s camera records HD widescreen (16:9) footage that looks as good as the real thing. However, sometimes you may need to mimic oldfashioned media to tell a story or add texture to a production. Final Cut Pro has all the tools and effects you need to turn pristine digital video into vintage film footage, complete with analogue artefacts such as grain and scratches.
We’ll show you how to animate the effects to make a 4:3 shaped black and white newsreel transform into modern 16:9 HD footage in a single shot, bringing the past into the present.
Retro effects
Add animated effects to your footage
Step-by-step Add vintage newsreel artefacts
1 Add assets
Import our four supplied video clips into a new Event. Press cmd and click to select each clip in the project bin. Press W to add them to the timeline in numerical order.
2 Add effect
Press cmd+5 for the Effects browser. Drag Aged Film onto the timeline’s first clip. Go to the Aged Film section in the Video Inspector (cmd+4). Drag Color Adjust to -1.0.
3 Add artefacts
In the Inspector’s Aged Film panel increase Scratches to 13, Dust to 60, Hairs to 7 and Jitter Amount to 0.11. Reduce the Volume of the clip to 0 for a silent movie.
4 Change shape
To give our 16:9 widescreen clip a retr
