The flickering vignette is perfect for recreating a vintage look fit for the most dastardly of 1920s villains. Why not combine it with scratches, dust and light leaks to age your footage even more? Or perhaps you could invert the clip and create a white ‘dream like’ flicker instead?

Made with Adobe After Effects CS3 with masking and some devilishly good expressions.

Flickering Vignette (PAL)

Dimensions: 720x576
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frame Rate: 25fps
Format: .mov

Flickering Vignette (NTSC)

Dimensions: 720x480
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frame Rate: 29.97fps
Format: .mov