SpeedSix.TV (Discreet Box10)
PURPOSE
Simulate watching TV; from a very old B/W set with bad reception onwards. There is also a picture roll facility for recording a TV screen and a fast forward play option for a video tape. A range of tuning features can optionally affect the quality of the broadcast. These effects are added together - ghosting with edge enhancement, horizontal hold, horizontal wrap, vertical roll, snow (noise), input resolution, the usual colour and contrast controls, gun alignment, scan lines and recording roll - till the desired effect is created. Added to this the sequence can be fast forwarded and the TV set turned off giving the old white dot (if you can remember this effect!). There is also an aerial provided which you can move around and rotate. This will affect a selection of the parameters depending on where it is and its orientation. But like all aerials it may well depend on the weather as to what you get.
INPUT CLIPS
1: Input
TV CONTROL PAGE
BW TV (Checkbox Default: On)
See also: Colour TV
It is a black and white television or a black and white film shown on a colour set.
Colour TV (Checkbox Default: Off)
See also: BW TV
A colour television.
Default (Pushbutton)
Revert to default values for the TV settings
Scan Lines (Checkbox Default: Off)
This breaks up the image into discrete bands giving the effect of low resolution transmissions.
Default (Pushbutton)
Revert to default values for the Scan Lines settings
Scan Width (Number Min: 1, Max: 800, Default: 3)
How many lines in the current image represents one in the output. This is not pixel and line replication but an intensity effect.
Brightness (Number Min: -100.0, Max: 100.0, Default: 0.0)
Scales the brightness of the resulting scanned image.
Contrast (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 500.0, Default: 100.0)
Adjust the contrast of the television
Lift (Number Min: -100.0, Max: 100.0, Default: 0.0)
Adjust the lift of the television
Brightness (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 500.0, Default: 100.0)
Adjust the brightness of the television
Colour (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 200.0, Default: 100.0)
Adjust the amount of colour present in the image
Red (Number Min: 0.00, Max: 200.00, Default: 100.00)
Adjust the amount of red present in the image
Green (Number Min: 0.00, Max: 200.00, Default: 100.00)
Adjust the amount of green present in the image.
Blue (Number Min: 0.00, Max: 200.00, Default: 100.00)
Adjust the amount of blue present in the image
Snow (Checkbox Default: On)
Add noise to the image.
Default (Pushbutton)
Revert to default values for the TVSnow settings
Snow Brightness (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 500.0, Default: 100.0)
The brightness of the noise.
Snow Density (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 100.0, Default: 100.0)
The density of the noise.
Snow Styling (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 10.0, Default: 1.0)
Low numbers give longer lines of noise; high numbers pixel sized noise.
Fuzzy Snow (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 10.0, Default: 0.0)
Defocus the noise.
Demos (List Box Options: Bad Colour | BW Ghosts | Horizontal Hold | Fast Fix | BW Aerial | Colour Aerial | Overload | Repair, Default: Bad Colour)
Select a preset to get you going.
Ghost+ CONTROL PAGE
Ghosts (Checkbox Default: Off)
Include ghosts or not.
Default (Pushbutton)
Revert to default values for the Ghost settings
Ghosts (Number Min: 0, Max: 10, Default: 4)
A value of 0 gives no ghosting. This is similar to turning ghosts off but you can dynamically add in ghosting during the sequence by animating the value. Ghosts greater than about 4 are hard to see (it will depend on the other parameters). If you can trim the number of visible ghosts it will speed things up a little.
Ghost Offset (Number Min: -400.0, Max: 400.0, Default: 12.0)
Specifies the maximum offset for the first ghost. Subsequent ghosts are proportional to this.
Ghost Bright (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 500.0, Default: 100.0)
How intense the ghosts may be.
Negative Ghosts (Checkbox Default: Off)
With Negative Ghosts selected the ghosts are sucked out of the image rather than added to it.
Edges (Checkbox Default: Off)
Turns the edging effect on/off.
Default (Pushbutton)
Revert to default values for the Edge settings
Edge Width (Number Min: 0.01, Max: 10.00, Default: 3.00)
The width of the edging effect.
Edge Depth (Number Min: 1.0, Max: 500.0, Default: 60.0)
The intensity of the edging effect.
Aerial Position (Position Default: 0.500, 0.500)
Aerial Angle (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 360.0, Default: 0.0)
The aerial can be dragged around and rotated. Various effects will change as you move it about, depending of course on what is turned on. There is no telling what the aerial will do, as mentioned before, atmospheric conditions will affect these things unless you are in a very good reception area - i.e. the center of the screen pointing east.
Roll (Checkbox Default: Off)
When you shoot the screen off a TV you often get the illusion of a dark band rolling down the image.
Default (Pushbutton)
Revert to default values for the Record Roll settings
Roll Speed (Number Min: -100.0, Max: 100.0, Default: 15.0)
The speed in lines per frame, with which the effect moves down the screen.
Roll Width (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 100.0, Default: 15.0)
How many lines the roller band affects.
Roll Dim (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 200.0, Default: 100.0)
As the dim value increases the roller region becomes darker.
Roll Offset (Number Min: -100.0, Max: 100.0, Default: 10.0)
The offset added to the current roller position.
Hold+ CONTROL PAGE
HzHold (Checkbox Default: On)
Simulate losing control of your horizontal hold. The image is offset horizontally by two interacting wave forms which can be shifted across and rolled down the screen.
Default (Pushbutton)
Revert to default values for the HzHold settings
Scale 1 (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 600.0, Default: 12.0)
Scale 2 (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 600.0, Default: 37.0)
The two scales amplify the the wave form. If both are 0.0 there is no horizontal hold effect.
Phase 1 (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 600.0, Default: 55.0)
Phase 2 (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 600.0, Default: 6.0)
The number of cycles in each wave form. Having a 2:1 ratio gives a nice oscillation. The higher the numbers the wigglier the waves.
Roll 1 (Number Min: 0, Max: 1024, Default: 0)
Roll 2 (Number Min: 0, Max: 1024, Default: 0)
As the sequence progresses the horizontal wave forms move down the screen by the roll value per frame.
Shift (Number Min: -1500, Max: 1500, Default: 0)
Shift and wraps the whole wave form left or right.
Wave (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 100.0, Default: 100.0)
Scales the effect of the wave form down the screen. At 0.0 it starts at nothing and builds up down the screen.
HzWrap (Checkbox Default: Off)
Simulate loosing control of your horizontal hold. Each line of the signal overflows and image appears to wrap round.
Default (Pushbutton)
Revert to default values for the HzWrap settings
Coarse (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 1000.0, Default: 100.0)
Fine (Number Min: 0, Max: 1024, Default: 8)
These are the Coarse and Fine adjustments to the scan line overflow. Changing the Fine value extends the line in pixel increments; the Coarse in line length increments.
Roll+ CONTROL PAGE
V Roll (Checkbox Default: Off)
Simulate losing control of your vertical hold. The image rolls up or down the screen, wrapping round.
Default (Pushbutton)
Revert to default values for the VRoll settings
Roll Speed (Number Min: -1024, Max: 1024, Default: 5)
The speed in pixels per frame at which the image is rolled round.
Roll Offset (Number Min: 0, Max: 5000, Default: 100)
This offset is added to the current position. Animating the offset can counteract the roll speed causing the roll to reverse direction.
Fast Forward (Checkbox Default: Off)
Simulation of what happens when a tape is fast forward with the playing head still on.
Default (Pushbutton)
Revert to default values for the Fast Forward settings
With Bars (Checkbox Default: On)
User request option to have black bars or not.
Gun (Checkbox Default: Off)
Gun (mis)allignment distortion effect
Default (Pushbutton)
Revert to default values for the Gun settings
Red Gun (Number Min: 5.0, Max: 200.0, Default: 110.0)
Scales the image red gun provides, thus misaligning the images.
Green Gun (Number Min: 5.0, Max: 200.0, Default: 105.0)
Scales the image green gun provides, thus misaligning the images.
Blue Gun (Number Min: 5.0, Max: 200.0, Default: 100.0)
Scales the image blue gun provides, thus misaligning the images.
Speed (Number Min: 1, Max: 100, Default: 1)
Which frames to use; 1 = all, 6 = every 6th etc [simulated due to api issues in certain products.]
Smear (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 100.0, Default: 10.0)
Accentuate the speed.
White Dot (Checkbox Default: Off)
Simulation of the White Dot effect - powering down old TV screens, can you remember that one?
Default (Pushbutton)
Revert to default values for the White Dot settings.
White Dot (Number Min: 0.00, Max: 1.00, Default: 0.4)
At 1.0 the picture will not be affected. As the values decrease the image is squashed into a circle and the brightness increased to white.
Blur Rate (Number Min: 0.00, Max: 50.00, Default: 0.0)
Fuzzing the white dot.