CCTV

Turns footage into greenish monochrome security-camera video with scanlines, noise and a target box around the tracked subject.

Group: Tracking & Overlays · How to add an effect

CCTV on the dancer on a dark stage: the whole frame twice, the original on the left, CCTV at its default settings on the right — Left: the original. Right: CCTV at its default settings, one frame of its movement.

A short page made from the editor’s effect catalog: what the effect does and its controls. Tips and its node setup will follow.

Controls

Control	Range	Default
Mix
Amount	0 to 1	0.8
Color
Overlay	a colour	`#36f59a`
Motion
Speed	0 to 5	1

Styles: the Style menu in the effect card switches to another look of the same engine. Controls you changed keep their values and keyframes when the new look has the same control, also under another name; the others start at the new look’s defaults. Looks of Tracking & Overlays: HUD Tracker, Rain Reveal, Stardust, Tracked Scene.

Technical details

CCTV is one look of the tracking overlay engine; its looks share one node setup. It keeps moving while the playhead stands still. How effects are stored, rendered and exported: Effect system. Its building blocks: Node Catalog.

Go deeper: Effect system: landmark tracking effects