Static sound effect

One hard-edged hit of broadband noise that starts and stops where you put it. This is the version most edits reach for, because it works as a transition without needing anything else under it.

An even wash of noise that holds without pulsing. Useful under a scene where silence would feel like a fault in the file rather than a choice you made.

Sparse brittle ticks over a thin hiss, the texture that reads as old and analogue. It ages a shot faster than any colour grade and costs nothing in the picture.

A rough spitting discharge with an unstable edge. The instability is the point, because a steady buzz reads as a machine working and this one reads as a machine failing.

Noise that thickens steadily from thin to full. Because it grows rather than arrives, it can run under several seconds of picture and still land on a cut at the end.

Noise chopped hard on and off in uneven fragments. The uneven spacing is what makes it read as a signal failing rather than a rhythm someone programmed.