In this guide, we’re using After Effects to turn modern footage into Super 8 style footage and VHS style footage. These two vintage styles look great and can be accomplished pretty easily with the features in After Effects. Today we’ll be using color grading, pre-compositions, creating chromatic aberration, and adding film grain. Let’s get into […]
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5 Benefits of Drone Video for Businesses [Infographic]
Drones were originally primarily built for military purposes, but these unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs have become essential tools for many businesses across various industries. A multitude of businesses now consider drones an integral part of their marketing strategies. For example, instead of sending photos of a property their prospective clients are interested in, real […]
Continue readingPlanning a Video: How to Write a Script
A lot of planning goes into writing a script for a video. Whether it’s a YouTube video or and educational course, many videos need some sort of script or rough outline. In this guide, we’ll be talking about how to write a video script so that your video recording sessions go smoothly! Cover photo by: […]
Continue readingFilterGrade Super 8 Films
Recently we’ve been diving back into the super 8 realm and we’ve been loving it more than ever! Now that we have a little more knowledge about the medium (compared to when we started) – we’re able to shoot with less anxiety and doubt, and more with confidence and precision. We wanted to create a […]
Continue readingHow to Edit Livestreams for YouTube Highlight Videos
Hey everyone, welcome to FilterGrade. My name is Mason, and today I’ll be talking through and showing examples of some of the lessons I’ve learned about editing livestreams so that you can make better and more entertaining edits from your livestreams, or from someone else’s streams that you’re editing. Most traditional video editing is based […]
Continue readingChicago on Super 8 Film (April, 2021)
In November, 2017 (roughly), I shot my first two rolls of super 8 film. Before I ever saw what the footage looked like, I fell in love with the feel of shooting super 8 – this was the first time I knew shooting with different cameras will make you feel different, and in turn it […]
Continue readingWhat is a VTuber? Your Introductory Guide
If you’ve haven’t heard the term VTuber until recently, don’t worry. It’s a relatively new trend that is starting to arise. VTubers are virtual YouTubers, and the concept is becoming more and more popular in the western world. If you’re active on Twitch or YouTube, you might be seeing a lot more VTubers breaking onto […]
Continue readingHow to Fix Common Render Issues in Premiere Pro
You spent hours on your latest epic video, arranged all of your effects in place, set up your render settings, press Render, and then- you get an error message. Nothing deflates you quite like the inability to render your video project, so in this article we’re going to go over some of the common render […]
Continue readingSTUNT DOUBLE (2d animated visualizer)
More experimenting, more trial and error, more work behind the scenes. April was a hustle month for us in terms of finding our style. If you saw our recent post covering our ‘KIDS SEE GHOSTS’ visualizer, we talked about crafting our vision – this ‘STUNT DOUBLE’ visualizer is another experiment in finding our creative freedom. […]
Continue readingHow to Use Your Canon Camera as a Webcam
Hey everyone, welcome to FilterGrade. Today we’re talking about something really cool that might let you make use of your DSLR when you’re at work. With the rise of Zoom meetings and Twitch streams, it’s great news that in late 2020 Canon released a brand new driver that lets you use just about any camera […]
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