Retro Effects 1.0.0

[FiniteSingularity]

FiniteSingularity submitted a new resource:

Retro Effects - A collection of OBS filters to give your stream that retro feel.

Bringing the Totally Rad 80s and 90s back to life.​

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[EchoGalaxy]

Man was hoping this had a film grain effect... i'll probably still use it though

 

[Mark Late]

Hi, I've just installed in OBS 30.2 (MacOS Intel) and it doesn't recognize the package inside filters. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

 

[KattPhloxworthy]

I had fun making an effect that looks like one of the very earliest home VTRs, notably AVCO's Cartrivision from the early 1970s, integrated into many large console TVs, mainly from Sears, among others. Until the advent of azimuth recording used on Beta and VHS, to reduce tape consumption, it used a "skip-field" system which records one out of every three fields (scanner disc has three heads, head #1 records or plays, while the other two only play), which the machine then plays three times on playback. The motion effect is... shall we say... strange. In any event, it allowed about 112 minutes' worth of recording on about 2000' of 1/2" video tape running at about 3 3/4 IPS (9.5cm/s).

To do this, I have to use two instances of the filter:

• First for the "Skip frame" effect - For it to mimic the effect properly, you need either 59.94 or 60 FPS. Set it to skip two frames.
• Second for the "Interlace" effect - So it actually emulates NTSC scanning properly.
• BONUS ROUND: Add any number of any other effects, such as VHS, CRT, Analog Glitch, NTSC, etc.

Also, I'd like to nitpick a little about the "tape wrinkle" part of the VHS effect. VHS, Beta, U-Matic and many other video scanners rotate in the same direction as tape travel, so the the wrinkle artifacts should travel downward. Other VTRs, such as Cartrivision, EIAJ, Sony CV-series and 1" Type A and C VTRs' video scanners rotate in the opposite direction of tape travel, so the the artifacts should travel upward.

Anyway, thanks for putting this plugin out!

--Katt. =^.^=

 

[FiniteSingularity]

Hi, I've just installed in OBS 30.2 (MacOS Intel) and it doesn't recognize the package inside filters. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Hi Mark,

Apologies, I just saw this message. The first thing to check- make sure you are not grabbing the ARM version of the plugin/installer (though I think on an intel mac, it would prevent from even installing it). You should be grabbing the x86 or Universal installer.

The next step- can you open OBS, then go to the Help menu, Logs, and Upload Current Log, and then either post the link it gives you here, or DM it to me? That'll let me see if it is being recognized by OBS, but is having some other issue. Then we can troubleshoot from there.

 

[FiniteSingularity]

I had fun making an effect that looks like one of the very earliest home VTRs, notably AVCO's Cartrivision from the early 1970s, integrated into many large console TVs, mainly from Sears, among others. Until the advent of azimuth recording used on Beta and VHS, to reduce tape consumption, it used a "skip-field" system which records one out of every three fields (scanner disc has three heads, head #1 records or plays, while the other two only play), which the machine then plays three times on playback. The motion effect is... shall we say... strange. In any event, it allowed about 112 minutes' worth of recording on about 2000' of 1/2" video tape running at about 3 3/4 IPS (9.5cm/s).

To do this, I have to use two instances of the filter:

• First for the "Skip frame" effect - For it to mimic the effect properly, you need either 59.94 or 60 FPS. Set it to skip two frames.
• Second for the "Interlace" effect - So it actually emulates NTSC scanning properly.
• BONUS ROUND: Add any number of any other effects, such as VHS, CRT, Analog Glitch, NTSC, etc.

Also, I'd like to nitpick a little about the "tape wrinkle" part of the VHS effect. VHS, Beta, U-Matic and many other video scanners rotate in the same direction as tape travel, so the the wrinkle artifacts should travel downward. Other VTRs, such as Cartrivision, EIAJ, Sony CV-series and 1" Type A and C VTRs' video scanners rotate in the opposite direction of tape travel, so the the artifacts should travel upward.

Anyway, thanks for putting this plugin out!

--Katt. =^.^=

Hit Katt,

I love that you're combining a bunch of the filters to make an overall effect. That was my hope for use of the plugin. Do you have a clip somewhere that shows the end effect? This sounds like a great effect, and I'd love to see what it looks like.

Regarding the tape direction- thank you for this info. I don't have any VCRs available to use, and was primarily going off of example footage I could find of the various artifacts. In the next version of the plugin, I can do something like allowing the "duration" field to go negative where negative values move downward, and positive values move upward, or add a direction dropdown menu option.

 

[watoza]

This filter is amazing! It's hard to choose just one of the great effects. Does OBS integration allow for changing various filter settings? Everything I've seen so far seems to only allow for on/off toggling of the entire filter, and no functionality to actually change a filter setting. I'm looking under both FireBot and StreamerBot for an option to do this, with the goal being to allow viewers to redeem a change in the filter automatically (changing it from glitch to Matrix, for example). Great product!

 

[watoza]

This filter is amazing! It's hard to choose just one of the great effects. Does OBS integration allow for changing various filter settings? Everything I've seen so far seems to only allow for on/off toggling of the entire filter, and no functionality to actually change a filter setting. I'm looking under both FireBot and StreamerBot for an option to do this, with the goal being to allow viewers to redeem a change in the filter automatically (changing it from glitch to Matrix, for example). Great product!

Actually, someone infomed me that multiple versions of the filter can be made each with a different effect. Thanks for reading!

 

[FiniteSingularity]

Actually, someone infomed me that multiple versions of the filter can be made each with a different effect. Thanks for reading!

Yup, this is the way! I commonly stack the NTSC, VHS, and CRT effect to get a very retro vibe. Glad you're enjoying the plugin.

 

[KattPhloxworthy]

Yup, this is the way! I commonly stack the NTSC, VHS, and CRT effect to get a very retro vibe. Glad you're enjoying the plugin.

That's how I do my Cartrivision effect!

Though that's not particular to the plugin in general; it's the fact you can stack OBS Studio plugins.

--Katt. =^.^=

 

[PAPAKILL13]

Complete noob with a dumb question, where do I go from here? I am running OBS 31.0.0-Beta3 with the current version of Ubuntu. It does not show up in filters. Help please.

 

[isnotretro]

My new favorite plugin! Is there any place I can donate to support the continued maintenance of this plugin?

Is there any possible way to use Cathode Boost without creating a black background in the source? I'm currently using a chroma key set to #000000 to clean it up, but this can create some problems.

 

[chitinlink]

Is there any possible way to use Cathode Boost without creating a black background in the source? I'm currently using a chroma key set to #000000 to clean it up, but this can create some problems.

Same here. I'm also trying to figure out a way to use it as a transition (for sources) but no luck yet

 

[FiniteSingularity]

Hi @isnotretro and @chitinlink. I'm working on adding this to the next release (the ability to add an alpha value to the cathode boot background color). So it'll be possible soon.

 

[Tikkakoski]

How do I install this on Linux? I'm a newbie using Ubuntu Mate.

 

[BabaBooeyBabaBooey]

FiniteSingularity submitted a new resource:

Retro Effects - A collection of OBS filters to give your stream that retro feel.



Read more about this resource...

Hi there,

Great effects! Thank you for sharing. Is there any way to get the installer to install to Streamlabs OBS rather than just OBS? I tried every trick I could think of with changing the install location, but it seems to be attached to a specific program file for OBS64.

All my scenes are configured in Streamlabs and I like GUI there better. Please let me know if there’s a way to access the filters in both.

 

[FiniteSingularity]

Hi there,

Great effects! Thank you for sharing. Is there any way to get the installer to install to Streamlabs OBS rather than just OBS? I tried every trick I could think of with changing the install location, but it seems to be attached to a specific program file for OBS64.

All my scenes are configured in Streamlabs and I like GUI there better. Please let me know if there’s a way to access the filters in both.

Unfortunately, there isn't a good way to make normal OBS plugins work with Streamlabs OBS. This isn't just true of Retro Effects, but of most plugins out there.

 

[BabaBooeyBabaBooey]

Unfortunately, there isn't a good way to make normal OBS plugins work with Streamlabs OBS. This isn't just true of Retro Effects, but of most plugins out there.

Good to know! Thanks for clarifying.

 

[KattPhloxworthy]

Hi there,

Great effects! Thank you for sharing. Is there any way to get the installer to install to Streamlabs OBS rather than just OBS? I tried every trick I could think of with changing the install location, but it seems to be attached to a specific program file for OBS64.

All my scenes are configured in Streamlabs and I like GUI there better. Please let me know if there’s a way to access the filters in both.

There is absolutely no way to install OBS Studio plugins into Streamlabs Desktop. Streamlabs' streaming software, while based on OBS Studio, does not support OBS Studio plugins. The only way to use OBS Studio plugins is with OBS Studio itself.

An alternative is to get OBS Studio and use Streamlabs' plugin to get the ability to set up overlay elements akin to how Streamlabs does it. Furthermore, OBS Studio can import your scenes in Streamlabs Desktop. And finally, a lot of things you would have to pay for an Ultra account for, such as simulcasting to places like Twitch and anything that is not soon-to-be-gone TikTok can be done for free (there is a plugin for that).

However, I will leave it at there as this is well beyond the scope of this particular thread.

--Katt. =^.^=