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Warm effect

Amber Eclipse

Amber Eclipse is a colour grade in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Terracotta and rust climbing into amber and gold.

Runs live on video, images, a camera or generated art. Stack it with any other effect, and route LFOs, envelopes or any of ten audio bands to its controls so it moves with the music.

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The untouched demo art: an eye inside a triangle over wavy teal, blue and peach lines — Source

The eye-in-triangle illustration in dark rust-brown lines over amber, gold and sage bands — Amber Eclipse, default settings

What Amber Eclipse does

Every stop stays warm: shadows sit on terracotta, rise through rust into amber and finish on a pale gold corona. There's no cool colour anywhere in the ramp, so at default strength the source's blues show through as olive and sage flecks. Terracotta pushes rust into the shadows, Amber widens the heat band and Gold lifts the top.

Using Amber Eclipse

Where it works: Sepia-style cover art, candlelit slow intros and desert or bonfire footage. Unlike Solar Static there's no turquoise anchor, so it reads as old film or firelight rather than blockbuster teal-orange.
With the music: Nothing is audio-driven inside the grade. Map B2 sub bass to Amber so drops flood the mids with heat, and a slow beat-synced LFO on Gold makes the highlights glow and fade across a bar.
Starting point: Terracotta at centre, Amber three-quarters, Gold a quarter, then raise Gold until the brightest lines just catch pale yellow.

Controls

Terracotta: Terracotta into rust mids.
Amber: Amber heat band.
Gold: Gold corona on highlights.

Pairs well with Amber Eclipse