Creating an Old TV Footage Effect in After Effects

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.