Un-Stock by Slice
Stock footage looks bought. This makes it look shot.
Pick a film stock and your clip gets its grain, its halation, its gate weave and its colour. It happens in the browser, so the video never leaves your machine.
Free, with a Slice account. Nothing to install. Already have one? Log in
THE TOOL, ON TWO STOCK CLIPS
Pick a look, move the sliders, hold the button to see what the clip started as. This is the editor, smaller.
The tool adds speed and shutter, a punch-in, vertical and square output, a trim, split toning, dust, scratches, light leaks and date stamps.
WHAT IT PUTS BACK
The things a camera did and a codec does not.
Film stock
Forty of them. Portra, Tri-X, Velvia, Technicolor — each with the grain and colour that came with it.
Halation
The red bloom film gets around a bright edge. It is the thing digital never does on its own.
Gate weave
The small unsteadiness of a frame passing through a camera. Barely there, and you miss it when it is gone.
Wear
Dust, hairs, scratches, flicker. A little, for a clip that has been handled. A lot, for found footage.
Optics
Vignette, chromatic aberration, soft corners. The lens, rather than the sensor.
A date stamp
The burnt-in clock a camcorder put in the corner. Pick your decade.
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps, and the last one is a download.
01
Drop a clip in
MP4, MOV or WebM, straight off your desktop. Nothing uploads.
02
Pick a stock
Forty looks to start from, then every slider if you want to take it somewhere else.
03
Export it
An MP4 with your audio still on it, ready to drop on a timeline.
QUESTIONS
Is Un-Stock free?
Yes. It needs a free Slice account so your own presets have somewhere to live, and there is nothing to pay.
Does my video get uploaded anywhere?
No. The whole thing runs in your browser — the file is read off your machine, processed there and written back there. It never reaches a server of ours.
Does the export keep the audio?
Yes. The audio from your clip is carried through to the exported file.
What file types can I put in?
MP4, MOV and WebM, which covers what comes out of a phone, a camera or a stock library.
Can I save a look I made?
Yes. Any combination of settings can be saved as your own preset and used on the next clip.
Why not just do this in Premiere or Resolve?
You can, with a plugin set that costs several hundred pounds and a render each time you want to see it. This is for the moment you want one clip to stop looking bought, now, in a browser tab.