Film Overlays: 8mm, 16mm & 35mm Celluloid Textures, Sprockets & Burns

8mm vs 16mm vs 35mm Film Characteristics

Film Stock	Grain Structure	Aspect Ratio	Aesthetic Feel
Super 8mm	Heavy, organic, rolling grain	4:3 rounded corners	Home video, skate culture, dream sequences
16mm Film	Medium textured grain	16:9 / 4:3	Indie film, music videos, documentary grit
35mm Cinema	Fine, silky high-resolution grain	2.39:1 Anamorphic	Hollywood cinema, luxury commercials

Compositing Sprocket Holes & Film Mattes

Place a transparent PNG film frame border from our Film Overlays Library over your footage, crop your video to 4:3, and apply subtle camera gate weave (using a slow position wiggle expression) to simulate physical film passing through a mechanical projector gate.

Using Film Burns as Natural Scene Transitions

Drop a 35mm flash burn on an overlay track over your cut point with Screen blend mode to create a stunning organic flash transition.