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Film Grain.

Add moving film grain to clean digital footage.

Drag to compare. Left: the original clip. Right: the same clip through film.look, rendered by the app.

What does it do?

Film grain adds a fine, moving texture over your video, like the grain of film stock. Size, roughness and color are adjustable.

Try the look

Film Grain, medium

3 real renders of film.look at different settings — the app gives you every value in between.

Creative ideas

  • Give clean phone footage a rougher texture.
  • Make clips from different cameras feel the same.
  • Add life to flat, minimal images.

How to use it

  1. Open the Color tab.
  2. In the left rail, under FILM LOOKS, open cinema.
  3. Turn on film grain and set the amount.

Level: easy. Undo anything with ⌘Z.

Example preset

  • film.look — grain on, grain 0.75, grain size 1.6

The exact settings of the demo above. Save yours with presets › save in the inspector.

Render notes

Grain is time-based and seeded: preview and export match. Rendered on demo footage: a portrait in blue night light. Browse the 48 Film Looks.

Rendered by @@ennuienoir (headless export) from a single shot of our demo footage, encoded for the web: H.264, no sound.

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