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Terminal - retro computer screen preset for After Effects

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Terminal Preset

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☣️Signs and Symptoms:

If you're experiencing any of these painful symptoms:

  • 🔥 Manually building retro screen effects with multiple layers and effects
  • 🔥 Getting the scan lines to look authentic takes forever
  • 🔥 Adjusting color, glow, and distortion separately for that vintage feel
  • 🔥 Client wants "more 80s" but you've already spent an hour on it
  • 🔥 Rebuilding the effect for every new retro project
  • 🔥 Never quite capturing that authentic CRT monitor look

Seek help from Terminal Preset immediately.

Terminal Preset is here to provide instant pain relief:

  • ✅ Authentic 80s terminal effect applied instantly
  • ✅ Perfect scan lines and CRT distortion built-in
  • ✅ Change colors from classic green to any vintage palette
  • ✅ Apply to any layer or entire composition with adjustment layer
  • ✅ Customize scan line thickness and distortion intensity
  • ✅ Reuse across all your retro and cyberpunk projects

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  • ☑️ Install on unlimited computers
  • ☑️ All future releases at no extra cost
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Potential side effects may include:

  • Actual respect from clients
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  • Dangerous levels of smugness
  • Co-worker jealousy
  • Cats will be 23% more friendly towards you (rare)

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Frequently Asked Questions

No, Terminal is just a preset to achieve the retro computer screen effect in After Effects. The animation of the text in the promotional video above is done by using the Word Processor preset which comes as standard in After Effects.

Yes, you can create retro computer screens for both personal and professional projects, but you may not sell the preset itself.

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Tell me more

If you've ever played the Fallout games, or if you were alive in the 80's then you'll be more than familiar with the old-school computer terminal style.

With the Terminal preset, you can recreate the retro feel of that old technology and get that old screen effect: just apply the preset to the layers you need, or to an adjustment layer and you'll instantly step back in time!

The old computer screen effect

The preset uses a variety of After Effects tools to create the old computer screen effect, most notably the screen lines that were so prominent back in the day. If you just want the older computer screen effect without the colour green, you can easily change the colours to something more appropriate, or remove the colour effect entirely to just leave the old screen effect.

As the old screen effect uses the standard After Effects tools, it's incredibly versatile. You can keyframe elements if you like, or even change the thickness of the old screen lines too. As always, it's best to experiment to create a unique old screen effect that suits your After Effects project.