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Retro Effects is an OBS plug-in that provides several filters to simulate retro hardware (e.g.- CRTs, NTSC Signals, etc…) giving your OBS sources an authentic retro look/feel.
Retro effects provides the following filters.
- Chromatic Aberration
- Frame Skip
- Interlace
- Posterize
- Dither
- CRT
- NTSC
- Cathode Boot
- Matrix Rain
- Retro Codec
- VHS
- Bloom
- Scanlines
- Digital Glitch
- Analog Glitch
- Conclusion
Chromatic Aberration
This filter provides the ability to shift the red, green, and blue color channels, either manually using the Manual type, or by simulating lens CA using the Lens type.
In Manual mode, each color channel can be individually shifted by a user specified distance and direction.
In Lens mode, color channels are shifted radially from the source’s center by a user specified per-channel amount.
Frame Skip
The frame skip filter allows the user to replicate skipped frames or lower framerates. It provides a single slider to specify the number of frames skipped between frame renders.
Interlace
Interlacing is a technique where alternating lines of an image are displayed in two sequential fields, creating a complete frame that refreshes half of the lines at a time, commonly used in older television broadcasts. This leads to characteristic combing artifacts that are seen when converting interlaced video to modern progressive scan displays.
The interlacing filter allows the user to specify the interlace line thickness, brightness reduction of the alternating field lines, and alpha reduction of the alternating field lines.
Posterize
Posterizing is a process to reduce the number of colors in an image to create a simplified, graphic-like effect, often resembling a poster or comic book style.
Users have the ability to adjust the number of color levels used in the posterization process as well as options for how color palette sampling is handled. Options for sampling include the original image colors, a user specified 2-color gradient, or the horizontal center line of any OBS source or scene.
Dither
Send your video back to Windows 3.1 with the dithering filter. Dithering is a technique used on lower bit-depth displays to smooth transitions between different colors or shades by adding noise or patterns, thereby reducing the appearance of banding or color stepping.
The dithering filter provides the user with both ordered and unordered dithering algorithms that emulate graphics from early windows and mac computers. Options include the ordered dithering pattern used, dither size, colors per channel, monochromatic or color dithering, pixel resampling/rounding, and pre-dither contrast and gamma adjustments.
CRT
The CRT Filter simulates various effects/artifacts as seen on older Cathode Ray Tube displays. Taste the static.
This filter provides 24 different phosphor mask layouts, and the ability to change the mask intensity. Also provides phosphor bloom with adjustable bloom size and threshold, CRT Geometry including corner radius, barrel distortion, and vignetting, and black and white level color correction.
NTSC
NTSC is a video broadcast standard used in North America and parts of South America and Asia, defining how color and monochrome video signals are transmitted and displayed on analog televisions. NTSC comes with its fair share of issues, leading to some calling it “Never The Same Color.”
The NTSC filter simulates encoding and decoding a source introducing adjustable artifacts commonly experienced on older analog TVs. User adjustable parameters include:
- Tuning Offset: simulates errors in tuning in an NTSC signal
- Luma noise: adds static noise to the NTSC luma signal
- Luma banding: adjustable size, strength and luma band/ring count.
- Chroma bleed size, steps and strength
- Brightness and saturation adjustment performed in the same way as done on an analog TV.
Download Link:
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/retro-effects.1972/
Retro Effects is an OBS plug-in that provides several filters to simulate retro hardware (e.g.- CRTs, NTSC Signals, etc…) giving your OBS sources an authentic retro look/feel.
Retro effects provides the following filters.
- Chromatic Aberration
- Frame Skip
- Interlace
- Posterize
- Dither
- CRT
- NTSC
- Cathode Boot
- Matrix Rain
- Retro Codec
- VHS
- Bloom
- Scanlines
- Digital Glitch
- Analog Glitch
- Conclusion
Chromatic Aberration
This filter provides the ability to shift the red, green, and blue color channels, either manually using the Manual type, or by simulating lens CA using the Lens type.
In Manual mode, each color channel can be individually shifted by a user specified distance and direction.
In Lens mode, color channels are shifted radially from the source’s center by a user specified per-channel amount.
Frame Skip
The frame skip filter allows the user to replicate skipped frames or lower framerates. It provides a single slider to specify the number of frames skipped between frame renders.
Interlace
Interlacing is a technique where alternating lines of an image are displayed in two sequential fields, creating a complete frame that refreshes half of the lines at a time, commonly used in older television broadcasts. This leads to characteristic combing artifacts that are seen when converting interlaced video to modern progressive scan displays.
The interlacing filter allows the user to specify the interlace line thickness, brightness reduction of the alternating field lines, and alpha reduction of the alternating field lines.
Posterize
Posterizing is a process to reduce the number of colors in an image to create a simplified, graphic-like effect, often resembling a poster or comic book style.
Users have the ability to adjust the number of color levels used in the posterization process as well as options for how color palette sampling is handled. Options for sampling include the original image colors, a user specified 2-color gradient, or the horizontal center line of any OBS source or scene.
Dither
Send your video back to Windows 3.1 with the dithering filter. Dithering is a technique used on lower bit-depth displays to smooth transitions between different colors or shades by adding noise or patterns, thereby reducing the appearance of banding or color stepping.
The dithering filter provides the user with both ordered and unordered dithering algorithms that emulate graphics from early windows and mac computers. Options include the ordered dithering pattern used, dither size, colors per channel, monochromatic or color dithering, pixel resampling/rounding, and pre-dither contrast and gamma adjustments.
CRT
The CRT Filter simulates various effects/artifacts as seen on older Cathode Ray Tube displays. Taste the static.
This filter provides 24 different phosphor mask layouts, and the ability to change the mask intensity. Also provides phosphor bloom with adjustable bloom size and threshold, CRT Geometry including corner radius, barrel distortion, and vignetting, and black and white level color correction.
NTSC
NTSC is a video broadcast standard used in North America and parts of South America and Asia, defining how color and monochrome video signals are transmitted and displayed on analog televisions. NTSC comes with its fair share of issues, leading to some calling it “Never The Same Color.”
The NTSC filter simulates encoding and decoding a source introducing adjustable artifacts commonly experienced on older analog TVs. User adjustable parameters include:
- Tuning Offset: simulates errors in tuning in an NTSC signal
- Luma noise: adds static noise to the NTSC luma signal
- Luma banding: adjustable size, strength and luma band/ring count.
- Chroma bleed size, steps and strength
- Brightness and saturation adjustment performed in the same way as done on an analog TV.
Download Link:
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/retro-effects.1972/
