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Infrared Dream

Infrared Dream is a colour grade in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Aerochrome violet and hot pink foliage over cream highlights.

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.

Try Infrared Dream freeAll effects
The untouched demo art: an eye inside a triangle over wavy teal, blue and peach lines
Source
The eye-in-triangle illustration in violet lines with hot pink, peach and cream swirls
Infrared Dream, default settings

What Infrared Dream does

Mimics infrared colour film: the ramp runs violet to hot pink, and green content counts extra, so foliage and teal areas swing pink while dark neutrals stay violet. Highlights decides how much blows out to cream, from saturated at hard left to a washed high-key print at hard right. Haze brightens the centre of frame softly, and Tint rotates the whole palette.

Using Infrared Dream

Where it works
Outdoor festival footage, nature shots and dreamy album art, since trees and grass are exactly what it turns pink. Far warmer than Lunar Bloom, and unlike Berry Nocturne it keys its pink off green rather than blue.
With the music
The grade has no audio input of its own. A beat-synced LFO on Highlights swings the frame between saturated pink and cream print each bar, and B2 sub bass on Haze glows the centre on every low note.
Starting point
IR at centre, Haze a quarter, Blend three-quarters, Highlights a quarter, Tint hard left, then raise Highlights until the lights turn cream.

Controls

IR
False-color IR channel response.
Haze
Radial dream haze around center.
Blend
Effect vs original mix.
Tint
Rotates the whole aerochrome palette, so the film relationships survive on a new colour.
Highlights
How much of the frame blows out to cream. Hard left keeps the violet and pink, hard right is high-key.

Pairs well with Infrared Dream