Create an Old TV Footage Effect

Greg DiGenti Last updated Sep 23, 2011

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Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from back in the archives of Aetuts+. Today we’ll look at a tutorial from Greg DiGenti that was first published in Feb 2009. You've probably seen other old TV effect tutorials, before but in this tutorial Greg pays attention to minute details like the RGB pixel separation and teaches us how to achieve this look using all built-in After Effects tools.

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Greg DiGenti

Greg DiGenti is an artist who has been working in graphic design for years and has recently taken the skills he learned working with Photoshop, illustrator, and Flash, and moved into the realm of motion graphics and animation using After Effects as his primary tool. Though his career in this field has been relatively short, he has already worked on several projects such as an animated viral marketing piece for Sony BMG, an animated comic book for Studio 407, a book trailer, and several effects shots and an animated credit sequence for a Wax Poetics/Fourth Density produced documentary. His portfolio can be found at http://12gaugechicken.com.