Features
– Turns any footage into a CRT screen: phosphor pattern, curved glass, glow, and vignette
– 5 CRT patterns, from RGB dot grid to Trinitron stripes, at any scale
– Every layer is modular. Screen curve, vignette, and glow each have an off switch
– Compatible with After Effects & Premiere Pro
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Each One Has Its Own Character
Select from Grid, Staggered (Vertical), Staggered (Horizontal), Trinitron (Vertical), and Trinitron (Horizontal). Same footage, five different personalities. Perfect for when you need to fine-tune the character of your effect or for when you're chasing a very specific vibe.
Make It Feel Like A Screen
Once you've got your pattern set, adjust the Vignette, Screen Curve, and Glow to create the full experience. Go for a blown out dream sequence or dial it back for a crunchy, saturated 90s look.
Modular Workflow For VFX
Every sub-module (Vignette, Screen Curve, and Glow) can be easily and completely disabled with a single checkbox. Great for VFX compositing and/or swapping in your favorite Glow plugin.
Made With CRT Converter
What Is CRT Converter?
CRT Converter is an effect plugin for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro. Apply it to any footage and it turns clean pixels into a CRT screen: a phosphor pattern, the dark gap between scanlines, glow, curved glass, and a soft vignette. Every layer is its own set of controls, and every layer has an off switch.
5 CRT Patterns – Grid is the classic RGB dot triad. Staggered (Vertical and Horizontal) offsets every other row or column like a slot mask. Trinitron (Vertical and Horizontal) gives the thin aperture-grille stripes of a Sony tube. CRT Scale sets the size, 1 to 15, from a subtle texture to chunky close-up phosphors.
Screen Curve – Real barrel distortion with a soft bezel outside the glass, plus Convergence to pull the red and blue beams apart for the misaligned fringing every real tube had.
Glow – Phosphor bloom with its own Threshold, Radius, Intensity, Quality, and Direction. The kind of glow that makes footage feel like it's coming off a screen, not out of a render.
Vignette – Width, Height, Blur Width, and Curve, all independent. Square it off or round it out, or switch it off and keep the pattern.
Advanced – Enhanced rendering with Phosphor Softness, Render Quality (Standard, High, Ultra), Smooth Scaling for animated scale, and Blend with Original to wet the whole effect in or out.
Easy to pick up. Deep enough to dial in exactly the tube you're after.
Requirements
SOFTWARE: Adobe After Effects 2020+ or Adobe Premiere Pro 2020+
HARDWARE: 2.4ghz processor or higher
MEMORY: 8gb RAM or higher (16+ recommended)
STORAGE: ~10mb of available storage space
OS: Windows 10+ (64-bit) or macOS 10.15+ (Intel & Apple Silicon)
Changelog
Version 1.5.0
- Added new "Screen Curve" parameter group (Enable Screen, Screen Curvature, Convergence)
- Added new "Enhanced" rendering mode with a "Phosphor Softness" parameter
- Added new "Render Quality" parameter (Standard, High, Ultra)
- Added new "Blend with Original" parameter
- Added "Advanced" collapsible section ("Smooth Scaling" now lives here)
- Added native in-app registration dialogs for After Effects and Premiere Pro
- Overhauled the glow system (luminance-based threshold, faster blur, fixed edge artifacts)
- Updated default settings for new instances (CRT Pattern: Grid, CRT Scale: 2, Render Quality: High, Glow enabled)
- Fixed registration freeze in Premiere Pro on Windows
- Fixed phosphor grid seams at high Phosphor Softness values
- Fixed Screen Curvature lighting alignment
- Fixed vignette not fully turning off at zero
- Improved source sampling at CRT Scale values above 1.5
- Projects saved with 1.4.2 open with all values intact
Version 1.4.2
- Added support for MFR (Multi-Frame Rendering)
- Added native Apple Silicon support
- Fixed bug affecting older versions of macOS
- Slight performance improvements
- Reduced number of licensing network calls
- Clicking the "Register" and "Setup" buttons within AE and Premiere Pro now manually refreshes the current license
Version 1.4.1
- Added support for After Effects and Premiere Pro 2022
- Overhauled vignette rendering
- Changed effect category to "MEGAKRUNCH"
- Fixed artifacting in vertical glow rendering
Version 1.4
- Added support for macOS 10.12+
- Overhauled the glow system to give the user more control and provide better functionality
- Changed "Glow Amount" to "Glow Intensity"
- Added "Glow Radius" parameter
- Added "Glow Quality" parameter
- Added "Glow Direction" parameter
- Simplified names of vignette parameters
Version 1.3
- Launch Version of Adobe plugin
- Added scalable CRT patterns
- Added two new patterns (Staggered Horizontal & Staggered Vertical)
- Added modular vignette control
- Added integrated glow effect
- Added support for dynamic aspect ratio
- Greatly improved performance
Version 1.2
- Fixed capitalization of "CRT" in "HiRes CRT" preset title
- Added a new preset "UltraRes CRT" for a more subtle effect (and to use with my UI Elements pack)
- Replaced the .txt instructions with a much more polished PDF version
Version 1.1
- Added support for variable resolution output
- Added two new presets "BRICKED" and "BRICKED_Incoherent"
Version 1.0
- Launch Version