Halftone
Drag and drop comic and print halftone, for After Effects, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.
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See Halftone in action
A full walkthrough of Halftone on real footage, in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve.
What Halftone does
Halftone recreates the look of comic and print halftone, the rotated dot screens that build up an image the way ink does on a printed page. It runs entirely on the GPU as a real After Effects, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve effect, so you get a live, render-accurate preview while you work, with none of the layer stacking or plugin chains the look usually takes.
Drop it on any clip and turn it into print, choosing a single ink plate for a comic-book feel or full CMYK plates for a process-print look, with ink outlines to sharpen the edges and a preset to start from. Every control is animatable, so you can grow the dots across a shot or transition from photo to print.
How to use Halftone
Download Filmit Studio
Grab the free desktop app for Mac or Windows. It manages your whole Filmit library.
Install Halftone
Open the Filmit FX library inside Studio and install Halftone in one click.
Drop it on your clip
Halftone appears in your Effects panel in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve. Drag it onto any clip.
Dial it in
Every control is live and keyframable, so tweak the look and animate it across your shot.
Dial in the exact look
Dot screening
Build the image out of luma-driven dots on a rotated screen like real halftone print.
Mono plate
Print with a single ink for a clean black-and-white comic-book look.
CMYK plates
Separate the image into cyan, magenta, yellow, and black plates for a full process-print feel.
Ink edges
Trace the picture with ink outlines to crisp up the shapes the way a printed panel reads.
Presets
Start from a ready-made halftone style and tune it instead of building the look from scratch.
Halftone questions
Yes. Halftone is one of the native GPU effects in the Filmit FX library, all included with your Filmit Studio subscription at $20/month, along with every plugin, effect, transition, and course. There is no per-effect cost.
Yes. Filmit FX install as native effects, so Halftone shows up in your Effects panel in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve. Drop it straight onto a clip.
Yes. Halftone runs on the GPU, so you get a live, render-accurate preview and fast renders, with no pre-comps or plugin chains.
Yes. Every control is keyframable, so you can ramp the look across a shot or trigger it on a beat.
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