Thursday, December 29, 2011

Blaine's TV Signal Effects

Blaine's TV Signal Effects
Back in the "old" days, we all had analog TVs where the picture was drawn by an electron beam on a cathode ray tube (CRT). The resulting picture often had noise in the signal, visible scan lines and a slight curvature to the screen. Well, now you can relive those days by applying one of my TV Signal Effects. These effects work with Windows Movie Maker 6.0 (either under Vista or Windows 7).

To install the TV Signal Effects into Windows Movie Maker, you have a choice of installers depending on whether you are running WMM 6.0 on a 64-bit or 32-bit version of Windows. Pick the correct installer and it will put the necessary files into C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared.
Windows Movie Maker 6.0:
Blaine's TV Signal Effects (64-bit) Installer
Blaine's TV Signal Effects (32-bit) Installer
After restarting Windows Movie Maker, you should have 4 new TV Signal effects with corresponding icons:
  • TV Signal (All) - all 3 effects applied at once (curvature, noise and scanlines)
  • TV Signal (Curvature) - distorts the picture to give it a slight curvature.
  • TV Signal (Noise) - adds some random "dot crawl" to the clip.
  • TV Signal (Scanlines) - draws the screen in bands of light and dark, with some color fringing.


    • You can apply the individual effects, or just use the combined TV Signal (All) effect. You might also want to apply a Blur effect or Grayscale effect, especially if you are simulating a black and white TV, or maybe a surveillance monitor.

    Note: These transitions require the architecture of WMM 6.0 and can't be made to work on versions 2.6 or earlier.
    Posted by Blaine at 11:42 PM
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    7 comments:

    2. Hi, Blaine. I have tried to download some of your effects and transitions, but when I open the .msi file to install it,it starts to 'gather required information', and then after about a second, it just closes. Please help.

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    3. @SportsLover, try saving the .msi file to your computer first. Then try clicking on it to install. Make sure you have administrator rights to your computer. It should prompt you for permission to install and then it should install quickly.

      Are you sure it hasn't installed? Have you checked your C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX folder?

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    4. Cool effects!
      I tried installing this one. Yes, after that, it's already in C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX folder. But I can't seem to make use of it. I doesn't show in my WMM. :( Where can I specifically found it? Thanks for the help :)

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    5. @They will be under your Effects (Tools > Effects). Look under 'T'.

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    6. Good day Blaine,

      I've attempted to install the TV Effects pack into the Shared/AddOn TFX on my laptop (64-bit Windows 7 machine). I saw it was a .FX file. Once I restarted WMM I did not see the effects on the list. Did I do something wrong?

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      1. Just to confirm: you have a 64-bit version of WMM 6.0 installed in C:\Program Files\Movie Maker. And you see the BlaineTVSignal.fx file in Shared and the corresponding .dll and .xml files in AddOnTFX? That's where the installer will put them, if you ran it correctly.

        Assuming that is the case, and you have restarted Movie Maker, you should see 4 new effects listed, as noted in the original post.

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