· 90s game look

Make your footage look like a 90s video game.

Pixelito turns a clip into a 1990s console game: big square pixels, fewer colours with a fine checker pattern, a choppy frame rate, and a grid that jumps now and then. Drag it onto a clip in DaVinci Resolve, or a preset onto an adjustment layer in Premiere Pro. No AI, no credits, no nodes to build.

Before and after · drag the line

The same frame, with Pixelito on.

The skater from our card, at the default settings. The right side is the effect's own output: blocks of 8 pixels on a 1080 frame, 16 shades per colour, and the checker dither that hides the banding.

A cartoon skater mid-ollie against a sunset, sharp and smooth

The same frame with Pixelito: big square pixels, fewer colours and a checker pattern in the sky

The choppy frame rate and the jumping grid only show in motion: see the clip below.

On a real edit

See it move.

Drop it on, and the picture turns to big pixels, drops to 12 frames a second, and the grid jumps a few times a second, the way old consoles did. Then change it to taste: every slider shows the result as you move it.

· seven sliders

What you can change.

In DaVinci Resolve everything is on the clip, in the Inspector. The defaults already look the part.

Pixel Size: How big the pixels are. It scales with the footage, so HD and 4K look the same.
Colour Depth: How many shades of each colour survive. Lower is cruder.
Dither: The fine checker pattern the old consoles drew to hide colour banding.
Frame Rate: Pictures per second. 12 gives the choppy motion of an old game.
Jitter: The resolution itself jumps a little, a few times a second.
Wobble: Patches of pixels shift about, like wobbling 3D polygons. Off until you want it.
Softness: Softens the picture sideways, like an old TV cable.

In Premiere Pro: four presets

One for each sequence shape: 16:9, 9:16, square and 4:5. Each is Premiere's own Mosaic, Posterize and Posterize Time, set up for you, and goes on an adjustment layer above your clips. Premiere has no dither and no random numbers, so the checker pattern and the jumping grid are in the Resolve version only.

Specification

What you are installing.

Resolve: Free or StudioA .drfx installer. Stock Fusion nodes only: no plugin, no script
Premiere: 2026A preset pack of Premiere's own effects. Nothing else to install
Playback: Real timeOn Resolve's Edit page. In Premiere, switch Posterize Time off while you edit if it stutters
Works on: Any timelineHD or 4K, 16:9, 9:16, square or 4:5
Install: Windows + MacDouble-click the .drfx, or import the preset file
Price: FreeAnd it stays free

Free, and it stays free

Get Pixelito 1.0.

The Resolve effect, the Premiere presets and an install guide for each, in one download.