Sometimes, adding more than one layer of grain over your footage can bring some superior richness to the image.
To achieve a certain desired look, you could also need to tweak the film grain by adjusting functions like opacity, brightness, contrast, levels, curves, saturation and sharpen. The “Overlay” and “Soft light” modes are the ones that most often work, but interesting experiments can be done with other modes like “Multiply”, “Darken”, “Screen” or “Lighten”. Depending on the clip that you choose, some blend modes will work better than others. Softwares like Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, DaVinci and Final Cut Pro X are a sure shot.ĭrop the film grain file of your choice in the timeline, place it over your footage and experiment with the blend modes. They will work with any popular video editing software offering the blend mode feature.
These Super 8 Film Grain Overlays are quicktime video files.