LCD Screen Video Effect

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Make a clip look like it is playing on a flat panel filmed up close. Each frame is resampled onto a grid of cells, every cell becomes red, green and blue stripes with a black matrix between them, and the panel carries the flaws a real one has.

A fixed panel

The grid, the backlight bleed and the stuck pixels are the panel, so they stay put while the clip plays behind them. The stuck cells are chosen once for the whole export, not per frame; a pixel that flickered between frames would read as a rendering fault rather than a damaged screen.

Pitch and mask

Pixel pitch sets the cell size as a share of the shorter side, so the grid is the same at preview and export size. Sub-pixel mask sets how far the stripes and the dark matrix show through the colour: low for a panel seen from a normal distance, high for a macro shot where the stripes dominate. Cells can be left whole for a plain pixel grid.

Bleed, wash and stuck pixels

Backlight bleed adds the cool glow edge-lit panels leak at the corners, visible mostly in dark frames. Off-axis wash lifts the blacks and washes the colour more toward one side, the look of a screen filmed from beside the desk. Stuck pixels sets how many cells are locked to one colour, black or white.

Cost

Under a tenth of a second per 720p frame, so source-size exports of long clips are fine.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the LCD screen video effect do?

Every frame is resampled onto a grid of cells, each drawn as three sub-pixel stripes with a dark gap between them, and the panel gets backlight bleed, an off-axis wash and stuck pixels. The grid and the stuck pixels stay in the same place on every frame, so the clip plays behind a fixed panel.

Why do the stripes shimmer on fine detail?

Detail smaller than a cell lands on different stripes from frame to frame, which is what a real panel does when it shows a pattern near its own pitch. Raise the pixel pitch or lower the sub-pixel mask to calm it.

LCD or CRT?

Phones, laptops and flat monitors are LCDs: flat, rectangular cells, no scanlines. Tube televisions and arcade monitors are CRTs, with curved glass, scanlines and a dot mask. Use the CRT video effect for those.

What happens to the audio?

It is copied into the export unchanged when the container can hold its codec, and re-encoded when it cannot. A note under the export button says which happened.

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LCD Screen Effect

Show an image on a flat LCD panel seen up close: a grid of cells with red, green and blue sub-pixel stripes, backlight bleed in the corners, an off-axis wash and a few stuck pixels.

CRT Video Effect

Make a video look like it is playing on a CRT television: barrel curvature, scanlines, a phosphor mask, color bleed, and glow, with fresh static on every frame. The soundtrack is copied into the MP4 or WebM export.

VHS Video Effect

Make video look like a worn VHS tape: shifted color, a soft picture, scanlines, tracking errors, dropouts, and head-switching noise at the bottom of the frame, all moving from frame to frame. Exports MP4 or WebM with the soundtrack.

Pixelate Video

Break every frame of a video into solid blocks of color, optionally limited to a retro palette with dithering. Pixel size scales with the output, so the preview matches the export. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Y2K Video Filter

Make a video look like it was shot on an early 2000s digital camera: harsh flash, cool color, RGB fringing, moving sensor noise, and an orange date stamp. Set flash, cool grade, RGB fringe, and date stamp. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Aerochrome Video Effect

Give a video the false-color infrared look of Kodak Aerochrome: green foliage turns red or magenta while skies stay blue, with film grain that moves on every frame. Set profile, intensity, foliage, and red bloom. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Redscale Video Effect

Remap every frame of a video to the redscale film palette: deep red shadows, orange midtones, and yellow highlights. Set redscale amount, yellow highlights, blue retention, exposure, and contrast. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Film Halation Video Effect

Add red-orange film halation around the bright edges and lights in every video frame. Set halation amount, highlight threshold, halo spread, and red-orange bias. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Lens Flare Video Effect

Add a lens flare to a video: a hot core, a long halo, veiling glare across the frame, diffraction spikes, and aperture ghosts, all from a light source you place. Set position, intensity, halo size, and spikes. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.

Light Leak Video Effect

Wash every frame of a clip with an analog light leak: a golden film burn, a pink haze, a prism flare, a disposable-camera look. Set the leak's strength and the film finish of grain, fade and dust; the leak breathes and drifts slowly as the clip plays. Exports with the original soundtrack.

Night Vision Video Filter

Turn a video into night-vision footage: brightness mapped to green, white, amber, or blue phosphor, with gain, highlight bloom, and grain that moves on every frame. Exports MP4 or WebM with the soundtrack.

Pinhole Video Effect

Make a video look shot through a lensless pinhole camera: soft everywhere, steep light falloff toward the corners, faded blacks, and grain that moves on every frame. Set falloff, image circle, softness, grain, and fade. Exports MP4 or WebM with the original soundtrack.