The Super 8mm film effect in After Effects

I found this very simple tutorial on Youtube which gives an unedited film a nice Super 8 mm film effect. To be able to do this you just need a little bit of knowledge of the After Effects interface.

First, import a video and drag onto the timeline

Drag Auto-Contrast on the clip

Drag Bightness and Contrast, set brightness to -15 and contrast to -13

Select Gaussian Blur and set to 1,0

You now need to right click in the layer panel to create three separate solid layers. One RED (#c84320), one BLUE (#1f567c) and one GREEN (#567049). Red in the bottom, Blue in the middle and Green on top.

Now change the red layer's blending mode to "lighten" and change the opacity to 73%. Change both the blue and green layers blending mode to "overlay"

You should get something which looks like this:

Original tutorial available here