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footage-effects

Eight effects for footage you already have, each as tested ffmpeg filter chains plus HyperFrames and Remotion equivalents: glow and bloom (soft, film halation, sci-fi, sunset, anamorphic streaks, ominous), digital glitch (subtle to corrupt), CRT screen (consumer TV, arcade grille, green and amber terminal), chromatic aberration (lens, radial, linear split), halftone (ink on paper, CMY screen, LED wall, mosaic), acid photocopy, radial zoom blur and wave or heat distortion. Presets give thresholds, blur scales, offsets in px at 1080p, screen angles, ink colors, scanline periods and where in the edit each effect belongs, from Xor (GM Shaders), the libretro CRT shaders, GPU Gems, Steve Yedlin and Andrew Kramer. Use when someone wants a glitch, glow, VHS-era CRT, halftone, chromatic or heat-haze look on a clip, or a zoom-blur punch on the beat. NOT for color grading and LUTs, animated backgrounds without footage (paper-shaders) or generating new footage (varg-ai).

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# Footage effects: glow, glitch, CRT, halftone and more on real video

Eight effects applied to real footage, each preset a complete ffmpeg command that was rendered and checked, plus a HyperFrames or Remotion version for compositions. They are accents: strong settings live in short hits on beats and cuts, and the subject's face and the type stay clean.

## Gates

- **The person's footage.** Apply effects only to clips the person owns or licensed.
- **Cap every command.** Generated inputs never end: always pass `-t <clip duration>` and `blend=...:shortest=1`, as the presets do.
- **Protect faces and type.** No bloom, glitch or fringes over captions, logos or a centered face; keep text on an untreated layer.
- **Seek-safe and seeded.** Every random value is a hash of the frame number, so renders repeat exactly.
- **No credits here.** These templates render locally for free. Generated footage, voice or music is the varg-ai skill: call `estimate_cost` and wait for the person's approval before any generation.

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