Quick Tips for Beginner video editors & motion designers.
Tip 1 : Texturing text.
Blending text into textures is all details.
3 stacked effects to avoid an uncanny appearance:
1) turbulent displace; scale the size to 2/3, subtly breaking sharp edges of text.
2) displacement map, valuing it to the texture below the text. This bends it with the surface below.
3) add noise inside of the text using ‘HLS noise auto’, scale grain size, matching granularity of the texture applicable.
Pro Tip : Nudge the colour slightly off from pure colour and it’ll appear a lot more natural.
Tip 2 : Collage Image Editing
Sorting through low resolution, old, images; you must rely on a method that can act as cohesion and enhancement.
Accomplish with 2 steps.
1 ) build a colour system.
example : aim the whites toward yellow, the blacks more blue. Applicable using the ‘Tint’ effect.
2 ) Hide low quality assets with high quality texture.
It helps disguise low qualities and lean to a more printed aesthetic.
You can find quality textures that are free to use at : texturelabs.org
Apply the texture to the photo as a Luma Matte, tweak the levels until it feels right to you.
Tip 3 : stop your digital recordings feeling flat & lifeless.
1 ) Venetian blinds - use these for thin scan lines.
2 ) Chromatic aberration - this applies a red/blue overlay across each side of any given part of the image.
3 ) CC Lens - A subtle bowing that screens normally gain when recorded.
Tip 4 : Tactile sound design.
List of useful sound effects ideas that help create tactile sound designs for your work :
Paper movement | felt marker | film camera shutter snap | VHS cassette snap-in | circuit breaker | sticky note peel | typewriter | mechanical button click | pencil scratch | zipper | drawer slam | coin spin | match strike | light switch flick | cloth movement | chalk drag
You can source free sound effects from the world around you, or : freesound.org