{"id":66,"date":"2008-07-10T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T18:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/?p=66"},"modified":"2023-06-04T08:36:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T16:36:23","slug":"fake-pxl2000-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2008\/fake-pxl2000-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake PXL-2000 Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

The deleted Wikipedia entry Simulating the PXL2000<\/a>, preserved here, offers a video processing recipe that will reproduce the signature effect of the PXL-2000 audio-cassette-based camera:<\/p>\n

\n1. Scale your footage to fit a 540 x 405 composition at 15 frames per second. (This is exactly 75% of a full 720 x 540 NTSC frame.)<\/p>\n

2. Reduce the saturation to 0.<\/p>\n

3. Apply a Gaussian blur with a radius of 1.5 pixels.<\/p>\n

4. Sharpen the image 30%.<\/p>\n

5. Clamp the black point to about 5% and the white point to about 95%.<\/p>\n

6. Compress the dynamic range of the entire image by about 1.2 to 1.<\/p>\n

7. Posterize to 90 steps.<\/p>\n

8. Add a lag effect; this should add a small proportion of the three previous frames to each frame, giving slight trails and motion artifacting.<\/p>\n

9. If desired, add a scanline or “TV” effect.<\/p>\n

10. Clamp the white and black points again.<\/p>\n

11. Apply a second 1.5-pixel Gaussian blur.<\/p>\n

12. Expand your composition to 720 x 540, leaving a large black border around the frame.<\/p>\n

13. If necessary, scale your finished composition to meet your output requirements (720 x 480 for an NTSC DVD, for example).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m using After Effects, but many similar programs should work equally well. Here’s an After Effects 6.5 project file<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For reference, here are some genuine PXL-2000 examples:
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The deleted Wikipedia entry Simulating the PXL2000, preserved here, offers a video processing recipe that will reproduce the signature effect of the PXL-2000 audio-cassette-based camera: 1. Scale your footage to fit a 540 x 405 composition at 15 frames per second. (This is exactly 75% of a full 720 x 540 NTSC frame.) 2. Reduce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}