Encoder
Turns the picture into a real NTSC or PAL composite signal, with sync, color burst and the faults a tape transport adds.
What’s inside
Pick a device from the menu on each node. Chain a few, Encoder into Processor into Receiver, and you have a rack: the signal runs from node to node the way it ran from box to box.
Presets
All 59 presets of Bradford Glitch, rendered by the plugin itself on a shot from Open Road A (1951, Bethlehem Steel Company), public domain via the Prelinger Archives, at 720×540, shown cropped to fit. A wipe shows the preset left of the line and the untouched frame right of it.
NTSC · 4fsc SD · reference
Wipe · 2 s
NTSC · native raster · progressive
Wipe · 2 s
VTR · worn heads · 3 µs head switch
Wipe · 2 s
VTR · timebase jitter · 0.4 µs
Wipe · 2 s
Encoder · starved burst · −30 dB
Wipe · 2 s
Encoder · no vertical sync
Wipe · 2 s
PAL · chroma phase error · 20°
Wipe · 2 s
Processor · flat
Wipe · 2 s
Enhancer · ringing · resonance 0.85
Wipe · 2 s
Echo · ghosts · 0.65
Wipe · 2 s
Chroma amp · loop feedback · rainbowing
Wipe · 2 s
Sync path · attenuation 0.9 · tearing
Wipe · 2 s
Sync path · attenuation 0.75 · weak sync
Wipe · 2 s
Sync path · depth 0.3 · lost lock
Wipe · 2 s
Luma bus · wavefolder · contour rings
Wipe · 2 s
Luma bus · subcarrier-locked PM oscillator · +4 cycles
Wipe · 2 s
Luma bus · inverted PM oscillator · C→Y 0.3
Wipe · 2 s
Switcher · wipe to bars
Wipe · 2 s
Switcher · clean mix · B level 0.5
Wipe · 2 s
Switcher · non-sync add · bars collide
Wipe · 2 s
Switcher · B unlocked · period +0.002
Wipe · 2 s
Keyer · luma key · level 0.4
Wipe · 2 s
Keyer · chroma key
Wipe · 2 s
Keyer · shattered circle wipe · 5× repeat
Wipe · 2 s
Keyer · oscillator key
Wipe · 2 s
Receiver · CRT raster · 2-line comb
Wipe · 2 s
Receiver · ideal display
Wipe · 2 s
Receiver · notch decoder · cross-colour
Wipe · 2 s
Receiver · frame comb · 3D
Wipe · 2 s
Capture card · line-locked TBC · blue on lost lock
Wipe · 2 s
Receiver · mistuned · H Hold 0.0036, V Hold 0.027
Wipe · 2 s
Capture card · mistuned · H Hold 0.003, V Hold 0.0225
Wipe · 2 s
Receiver · AC-coupled · no clamp
Wipe · 2 s
Receiver · slow AFC · bends after a timing jump
Wipe · 2 s
PAL decoder · no delay line · Hanover bars
Wipe · 2 s
Receiver · hue −50° · saturation 1.8×
Wipe · 2 s
Receiver · saturation 1.8×
Wipe · 2 s
Feedback loop · tunnel
Wipe · 2 s
Feedback loop · explode · zoom 1.06
Wipe · 2 s
Camera loop · at its monitor · zoom 0.94
Wipe · 2 s
Feedback loop · luma key · level 0.55
Wipe · 2 s
Hold buffer · drips
Wipe · 2 s
Frame store · 4:2:2 · clean
Loop · 2 s
Address bus · column bit 5 stuck · strips repeat
Loop · 2 s
Address bus · bit inverted · block swap
Loop · 2 s
Word slip · 2 words · Cb↔Cr
Loop · 2 s
Write enable · patchwork · patch rate 0.35
Loop · 2 s
Data bus · bits 7/5 swapped · 6-bit luma
Loop · 2 s
HDMI link · TMDS errors · lane swap
Loop · 2 s
Effects board · tile scramble · tile rate 0.5
Loop · 2 s

Colorizer · palette bands
Still

Scan processor · Rutt-Etra · 0.08 lift
Still

Wavefolder · 24 folds · grey rings
Still

Oscillators · free-running · 12 + 5 cycles
Still

Colorizer · luma key · level 0.35
Still

Oscillators · radial + horizontal · no picture
Still

Phase modulator · highlights · keyed
Still

Phase modulator · full range · −1.4 turns
Still
Defaults
Loop · 2 s
Professional workflows
Set a node’s Input to your timeline’s encoding. It converts the picture to where the effect was tuned, does its work and converts back exactly, so the look on an ACES project matches the same shot on a Rec.709 timeline.
The plugin’s own frames, re-encoded in your browser as each timeline stores them, shown without a display transform.
On an ACES timeline, Clip gives the effect what a Rec.709 clip of the same shot would be, so the look matches exactly. Keep lets highlights through and back out.
In use on one computer at a time, and handed back when Resolve quits. No deactivating before you move suites. The Mac release and the Windows beta now; the full Windows release when it ships, at no extra cost.
Noise and drift come from a seed and the frame number, and GPU and CPU agree, so a re-render or a render node matches the frame you approved.
On a DaVinci Wide Gamut or camera log timeline, put a Color Space Transform to Rec.709 before the effect.
License
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