Handycam Filter 2.0 — What's new since 1.1

PRESETS: 5 → 9, rebuilt from real references

• Homevideo, 80sTV, Dreamcore and Surveillance re-designed to match real camcorder, broadcast and CCTV footage

• 5 new presets: Tape Dub, Music Video, MiniDV, Super 8, NightShot

• "Standard" retired (scenes that used it keep their settings as Custom)

NEW EFFECTS

• Blown Highlights — sky and lights burn out like a camcorder sensor, with Burn and Spill controls

• Chroma — colour bleed (Chroma Offset, vertical/horizontal blur), RGB split in any direction for red and blue, Channel Blur for a glitch look

• Film Tone — film contrast, black point, highlight roll-off, density

• Halation — coloured glow around bright highlights

• White Balance (temperature, tint) and Split Tone (shadows, highlights)

• Tape Errors — Head Switching, Dropouts, broadcast Ghosting

• Low-Light Noise with adjustable colour, Grain Size

• Glow "Highlights Only", Light Smear threshold

• Aspect ratios — 4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 16:9, 1.85, 2.39, 9:16 or custom

• Fast Preview for a responsive viewport

WORKFLOW

• Save your own presets: Save, Save As, Rename, Delete, Revert; edited presets are marked

• One preset menu for built-in and your own presets; "Clear All Effects"

• Panels reorganised: Lens · Sensor · Light · Tone · Color · Tape · Frame, in the 3D View and Compositor sidebars

• Tooltips on every setting

• 19 settings can be keyframed (exposure, colour, glow, noise, jitter, tape errors…)

ENGINE

• The whole filter is one tidy node group instead of ~100 loose nodes

• Slider changes update in place, ~500× faster than 1.1

• Resolution independent: viewport, test renders and the final frame look the same

• Smooth sub-pixel jitter, also in low-resolution previews

• Transparent renders stay transparent; no edge lines; tone controls no longer clip highlights

COMPATIBILITY

• Requires Blender 5.0 or newer (tested on 5.1, 5.2 LTS and 5.3)

• Files saved with 1.1 open and convert automatically