Image degrade

[Nicolas Hanson]

Do you have any advice for how to distort or degrade the image in Davinci Resolve? I hope to be able to add a print like texture and add a retro / vintage feel without going into online. I'm covered on the color part.

[Dylan R. Hopkin]

You can degrade the image “resolution” by using Mosiac Blur, adjust Pixel Freq to taste. Take a picture of a piece of blank paper / scan the paper, or find a texture online. Add it in to the media pool as an external matte (without having any clips selected in the actual pool). This way you can access the texture as a matte to layer in a layer-mixer, and use overlay to add it on top of the live action image. Adjust node opacity to taste. (Other ways of doing this too).

Newspaper print has a halftone raster, Genarts have a plug-in for that. Or find a high res halfpattern online and feed your live action footage through it to mask the video.

 

[Abby Bader]

Look at the emboss and edge tools in the openFX menu. You can also degrade the image by changing the texture in the grain parameter and also adjusting the values in the grain advanced controls. And you can check out the JPG damage and lens distortion too.

[Nikola Stefanovic]

Red Giant Universe.

[Nicolas Hanson]

This gave me more than I hoped for, I will experiment with the different methods and post the result (if I'm allowed). 

[Stig Olsen]

On the shot below I've used "Sharpen Edges" with increased edge mask strength and decreased edge blur, combined with some customized grain.