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title: "AV Club"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/html/av-club.html"
description: "Universe AV Club gives text and anything with alpha information the retro look of an old commercial or poorly-keyed footage."
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# AV Club

Universe

## AV CLUB

![av-club-main](https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/AV-Club-Main_universe.jpg)

Universe AV Club gives text and anything with alpha information the retro look of an old commercial or poorly-keyed footage.

AV Club applies to footage in [the usual way](https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/html/plugin-overview.html.md). However, in Resolve, you'll need to follow a few extra steps:

- Have your text on a video track above your footage's video track.
- Create a Compound Clip from your text, select it, and head into the **Color** view of Resolve's interface.
- Within Resolve's **Node** window, sever the default link between the text's node and the output.
- Add a new **Corrector** node and **Alpha** output within the Node interface.
- Create links from the Text's RGB and alpha outputs to the newly created Corrector node's RGB and alpha inputs.
- Create links from the Corrector node's RGB and alpha outputs to the final outputs for RGB and alpha, respectively.
- Right-click in the Node interface and select **Use OFX Alpha**.
- Apply AV Club to your Text node and select the **Unmult** option.
- From here, you have two options:
  - *Option 1:* With your Corrector node selected, key out the black background from your text and click **Invert** to flip the key around.
  - *Option 2:* With your Corrector node selected, apply **uni.Unmult.**
- To see the difference between these two options, [read more here](https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/html/text-effects-in-resolve.html.md) .

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### Presets

As detailed below, Analog offers dozens of controls. You can change everything from image dimensions to color characteristics to lighting. However, you might find a handy shortcut in Analog's presets, located in the Red Giant Universe Dashboard (accessible via the blue **Open Dashboard...** button or the **Choose a Preset...** button below it).

![Image: Uni_stylize_AVClub_presets.png](https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/Uni_stylize_AVClub_presets.png)

As with all other Universe tools, you can modify or create an AV Club look and then save it under its own name by pressing the **Save Preset...** button.

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### Modifying the Effect

AV Club's default settings produce a text effect like that shown in the image below. However, by tweaking any or all of the effect's controls, you can achieve some striking results.

![Image: Uni_avclub-controls.png](https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/Uni_avclub-controls.png)

- **Source Fuzzy** creates and controls a feathered blur around the edges of your source.
- **Source Block** controls how "artifacted" or "blocky" you want your source to look.
- **Tint** controls the tint of the effect during its flickering. (If you don’t see this affect your output, try scrubbing your timeline or adjusting the **Blink Speed** and **Color Blink** parameters below.)
- **Tint Strength**adjusts how heavily you want the tint to overlay onto the source.
- **Edge Freakout** controls how damaged and blurry the effect edges appear.
- **Edge Color** adjusts the color of the source's edges.
- **Edge Hue Noise** adds a noise pattern over the edge’s color.
- **Edge Luma Noise** adds a noise pattern over the edge’s luma channel.\
  ![Image: Uni_avclub-tint-edge.png](https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/Uni_avclub-tint-edge.png)
- **Quantize Color** reduces the number of colors within your source. If you have a gradient, for example, the number of shades within that gradient will be reduced on a scale from 0 (full reduction) to 100 (no reduction).
- **Sharpen** sharpens the contrast between the effect and its edge details.
- **Separation** offsets the source from the effect’s edges.
- **Post Noise** adds noise over the effect and its source.\
  ![Image: Uni_avclub-separation.png](https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/Uni_avclub-separation.png)
- **Jitter** adjusts how much the source irregularly moves around.
- **Shadow** twirls down a set of controls for an optional drop shadow:
  - **Enable** creates a drop shadow locked at a 45-degree angle.
  - **Wiggle** sporadically animates the shadow back and forth along the x axis.
  - **Offset** adjusts the distance of the shadow from the source.
  - **Color** affects the color of the shadow using a color swatch as a reference.\
    ![Image: Uni_avclub-shadow.png](https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/Uni_avclub-shadow.png)
- **Blink Speed** adjusts how frequently your source and effect blink in and out of existence.
- **Color Blink** is an optional toggle which blinks only the color on and off.
- **Blend Original** adjusts the opacity of the source over the effect. Turning this to its highest setting essentially puts the effect entirely behind the source.