A newly arrived script for After Effects simulates a chroma subsampling on CG created elements making them look less perfect and sit in the composite much better. This script comes to us from Christian Lett and is available on AEscripts here.
Chroma subsampling is the process used to literally throw away chroma information when encoding video in order to reduce its size without drastically affecting the result – often referred to as being visually lossless.
Simulates chroma subsampling in order to make CG slightly less than perfect. This plugin has been designed to simulate this process to help better integrate perfect CG renders into video backplates. It can also be used for a retro stylistic effect (especially the VHeSque mode)
There are five sampling rates:
4:2:2 for simulating Digibeta and Rec.601/709
4:2:0 for PAL DV, 4:1:1 for NTSC DV and DVCPro
3:1:1 for HDCAM, and 2:1/4:1/4
A digital approximation of VHS quality (hence the name VHeSque)