discover / Retro & Digital · Texture & Print
Dithering.
Rebuild the image with a few colors and tiny dot patterns.
Drag to compare. Left: the original clip. Right: the same clip through print.dither, rendered by the app.
What does it do?
Dithering redraws your video with a small palette and patterns of dots, like an old printer or an early computer screen.
Creative ideas
- Give a clip a 1-bit, early-computer look.
- Print-style visuals for posters and covers.
- Mix with color palettes for a retro game feel.
How to use it
- Open the Effects tab.
- Under VIDEO FX, click print.dither.
- Pick an algorithm and a palette, then adjust the scale.
Level: easy. Undo anything with ⌘Z.
Example preset
- print.dither — default settings
The exact settings of the demo above. Save yours with presets › save in the inspector.
Render notes
Rendered on demo footage: a portrait in a dark room.
Rendered by @@ennuienoir (headless export) from a single shot of our demo footage, encoded for the web: H.264, no sound.