Give your footage an old film look with grain, tone and vignette
Attach your footage and ask the Tella Agent for an old film look. Tella Motion adds film grain, a sepia or faded tone, a vignette and color fringing.
Try it in Tella
Paste a prompt into the Tella Agent in the editor, or into Claude or ChatGPT connected to Tella, then ask for changes.
Place the clip I attached in this Tella Motion clip and make it look like 1970s film: fine grain, warm faded colors and a soft dark vignette. Keep faces easy to see.
Use the attached Brindle Row wedding clip. Give the first 8 seconds a sepia old-film look with heavy grain and a strong vignette, then fade to full color over 2 seconds.
Make the attached Lowmere band clip look like a worn VHS tape: color fringing toward the edges, colored grain, washed-out blacks and a slight vignette.
How do I make a video look like old film, with grain and a vintage color?
In Tella, add a Tella Motion clip, attach your footage in the Tella Agent chat and ask for an old film look. Tella Motion adds film grain that changes every frame, tones the colors through sepia or faded shades, darkens the edges with a vignette, and can split red and blue toward the edges. To warm or fade a recorded clip without Tella Motion, use a preset or LUT under Style → Filters.
How to do it
- Open your video in the Tella editor and choose Add clip → New Tella Motion clip.
- In the Tella Agent chat, click + → Attach… and add your footage.
- Describe the look: how heavy the grain is, the color tone and how dark the edges get.
- Play the preview and ask for changes, like "less grain" or "warmer highlights."
Good to know
- Available to everyone: through the Tella Agent on a paid plan or the 7-day trial, or through Claude or ChatGPT on any plan.
- A Tella Motion clip has no transcript, layouts or cuts, so use the film look for an intro or cutaway and keep talking parts as a recorded clip.
- For real old footage, add a public-domain shot from the Vintage videos section of Overlay.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Select the clip, click Style and pick a preset under Filters, or click Customize and, under Advanced, lower Saturation and change Temperature. You can also upload a .cube LUT and set its LUT intensity.
Yes, roughly. Tella Motion's chromatic aberration splits red and blue toward the edges like worn tape, and colored grain and faded blacks finish the look. Describe the tape look you want and the agent combines them.
Yes. Connected to Tella's MCP server, Claude or ChatGPT can use the same Tella Motion effects as the Tella Agent, including grain, tritone, vignette and chromatic aberration.