Achieving That Look..

De-saturate
Pump up some contrast
Bring up the green shadows.
Bring up the red mid tones.
Add a small tiny blur, noise and scratches.
And don't forget, if you want that look in the video you posted, the most important step. Strippers, lots and lots of strippers.
 
Instead of adding some scratches and noise by using an effect, I would try to find some stock video of old super8 footage and then use a transfer mode on top of your footage. It looks more authentic.
 
Magic Bullet's Looks has a preset that looks exactly like this. I forget the exact name of it, but it'll colorize and de'saturate your footage like this in no time. The only thing you'll have to add are the scratches.... and yeah.. I could barely pay attention to what the song and lyrics were about.. THANK YOU SO MUCH :)
 
handsome pete said:
Instead of adding some scratches and noise by using an effect, I would try to find some stock video of old super8 footage and then use a transfer mode on top of your footage. It looks more authentic.
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I've actually tried this method a few times without much success. I couldn't find too much stock footage to use(I didn't want to only use one short super8 clip looped 9000 times), nor could I easily get rid of the background totally and keep the scratches looking ok....

ellsworth said:
Magic Bullet's Looks has a preset that looks exactly like this. I forget the exact name of it, but it'll colorize and de'saturate your footage like this in no time. The only thing you'll have to add are the scratches.... and yeah.. I could barely pay attention to what the song and lyrics were about.. THANK YOU SO MUCH :)
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Hahahaha, I dunno if you not being able to pay attention to the song/lyrics is a good thing or not hahahaha. I've just actually started dabbling in the whole Magic Bullets plug-ins. Not sure off hand what all I have nor have I had a chance to even seriously play around with them yet, but thanks for lettin me know theres one out there.

thanks guys! Let ya know what kinda luck I have with gettin the look right
 
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