VintageDither for After Effects brings the visual language of limited palettes, patterned colour, and retro screens to images and moving footage. Apply it to an image layer or an adjustment layer and build a look through colour, texture, and finishing controls.
Features & capabilities
- 14 complete presets and 26 retro-inspired looks.
- Seven error-diffusion methods.
- Independently animated Main and Extra noise.
- Custom colour palettes with 2–256 colours.
- Scene Adaptive palette capture from the current input frame.
- Tone Ramp, Nearest RGB, and Palette Remap colour mapping.
- Independent pixelation, dither cell size, and pattern scaling.
- Ordered, noise, procedural, texture, and error diffusion patterns.
- An Extra Layer for a separate patterned colour treatment.
- Vignette, grading, chromatic aberration, CRT, and stop-motion controls.
- Reusable effect settings through After Effects Animation Presets.
Compatibility & rendering
VintageDither 1.0.0 is available for Windows x64 and has been tested in Adobe After Effects 2026. CPU rendering is the default. Optional experimental GPU palette matching supports Nearest RGB and Palette Remap, with automatic CPU fallback. Multi-Frame Rendering is not enabled.
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Manual
Read the VintageDither for After Effects manual. The manual is available in English.
