📺 NTSC-VHS Renderer

Intuitive rendering and GUI for LMP88959/NTSC-CRT with effects

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Jerobeam Fenderson - Shrooms through NTSC-VHS-Renderer (NTSC, Interlaced, Brightness +100, Contrast +10, Bloom 80)

Corpse Bride ending through NTSC-VHS-Renderer (VHS, Interlaced, Brightness +20, Contrast +10, Bloom 45)

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📙 Dependencies

• NTSC-CRT: https://github.com/LMP88959/NTSC-CRT
• BloomEffect: https://github.com/yoyoberenguer/BloomEffect
• FFmpeg: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
• Pillow: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow
• numpy: https://github.com/numpy/numpy
• psutil: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil

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❓ Get started

Note: At the moment, compiled releases are only available for Windows x64. To run on another platform, you must build the project from source yourself (see 🔨 Building from source section)

1. Download latest release from https://github.com/F33RNI/NTSC-VHS-Renderer/releases/latest
2. Unzip it and run NTSC-VHS-Renderer-X.X.X-Windows-AMD64.exe
3. Open a video or image file by dragging it to the GUI or by clicking "File" -> "Open"
4. On "Render" tab change whatever you want. To render to a file, click the "Render and Save as" button
5. Enjoy!

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🔨 Building from source

1. Install CMake, Python and other basic building tools

2. Build NTSC-CRT for your system

   Windows example:

   git clone https://github.com/LMP88959/NTSC-CRT
   cd NTSC-CRT
   cmake -B build -DLIVE=off -DVIDEO=on -DCRT_SYSTEM=5
   cmake --build build --config Release
   move build\Release\ntsc_video.exe build\Release\ntsc_video_vhs.exe
   cmake -B build -DLIVE=off -DVIDEO=on -DCRT_SYSTEM=0
   cmake --build build --config Release

3. Download FFmpeg binaries from https://ffmpeg.org/download.html or build them by yourself. NTSC-VHS Renderer uses ffmpeg and ffprobe files

4. Download BloomEffect source code from https://github.com/yoyoberenguer/BloomEffect/tree/version-1.0.2/BloomEffect

5. Clone NTSC-VHS Renderer repo:

   git clone https://github.com/F33RNI/NTSC-VHS-Renderer
   cd NTSC-VHS-Renderer

6. Create virtual environment and install requirements:

   Windows example:

   python -m venv venv
   venv/Scripts/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt

7. Copy NTSC-CRT binaries (ntsc_video and ntsc_video_vhs), ffmpeg binaries (ffmpeg and ffprobe) and BloomEffect source code (into bloom directory: NTSC-VHS-Renderer/bloom/...)

8. To start NTSC-VHS-Renderer: run python main.py

9. To build executable: run pyinstaller NTSC-VHS-Renderer.spec. Output files and executable will be in dist/NTSC-VHS-Renderer-VERSION-PLATFORM directory

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📝 TODO

• Fix output resolution (probably caused by NTSC-CRT)
• Test properly
• Build for linux
• Make it faster
• Add rolling shutter effect

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✨ Contribution

• Anyone can contribute! Just create a pull request

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🚧 P.S. This project is under development!