How to Make “When I Was Your Age” Footage
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My dad used to always say, “When I was your age, we didn’t have children.” Well with people like that you might have to convert your footage into something a little more familiar. There are lots of tutorials on creating that “old film” look, but I felt like Brock did a good job presenting a method that didn’t require any expensive plug-in presets and could be done quickly… Enjoy!
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I think they didn’t have rolling shutter distortion back then…
intereseting technic… sound would add a little bit flavor..
Laconic, useful, nice. Just the way tutorial should be, good job mate, thanks.
Nice man, ^^ Did a get job there
what about adding a strobe lighting effect…a bit of a flicker?
I would recommend adding a brightness effect and use a wiggle expression on the brightness level.
i like old stuff. definitely i will try this technique. thanke you very much.
If you’d like the not hand animate the scratches line, but keep it randomly moving and jumping, create the solid, like the tutorial, but instead of keyframing the position: apply the “Separate XYZ Position” preset. Then Option/Alt click on the “X Position” stopwatch. Paste the following code in:
holdTime = .5; // Time, in seconds, before the random seed chooses a new number
seed = Math.floor(time/holdTime); // Doing the math to generate the hold time
seedRandom(seed,true); // Generating, and holding, the random seed
randNum=random(0,100); // Generating a random number
wiggleRange = (thisComp.width/2)+50; // Setting the range of the wiggle to half the comp +50
if(randNum>50) { // If/then statement that makes the solid jump if the random number goes above 50
y=wiggle(.25,wiggleRange);
} else {
y=wiggle(.25,-wiggleRange);
}
It’s commented to tell you what it does.
It’s amazing how many people ask for this effect. Good job! Quick and to the point.
it would be nice to add some flicker light and more detail screatches and dots in the footage. but s oke
I especially like how you say AE toots LOL
I chuckled at that.
Thanks for the tut!!
Short, sweet, to the point.
I hate sitting through tutorials with a lot of rambling. This was right up my alley.
Thanks for the Tutorial
I had to laugh at your decription, “When I was your age, we didn’t have children” So true! Anyway, I was dying to try and make my own effect like this, and then I found your tutorial. Awesome job man