Crisis: After Effects Plug-In

Crisis is a powerful After Effects plugin that brings the gritty, imperfect aesthetic of vintage analog media right into your digital workflow. Whether you're chasing that worn VHS vibe, nostalgic CRT look, or the chaotic energy of degraded broadcast signals, this plugin delivers authentic analog breakdown effects with intuitive, creative control.

VHS Tape Degradation Captures that classic deteriorating VHS aesthetic—colour bleeding, tape wear, head switching glitches, and the wonky colour shifts you get from a tape that's been played a thousand times. Perfect for that authentic worn-out look.

CRT Display Artifacts Recreates the quirks of old-school tube monitors and TVs: scan lines, phosphor glow, convergence drift, and subtle geometric warping. It's got that authentic 80s-90s screen feel.

Broadcast Signal Interference Simulates the visual chaos of weak or corrupted broadcast signals—ghost images, pixelation, dropout artifacts, and that unpredictable glitchy quality of bad reception or RF interference.

Parameter	Range	Desc.
Roll Amount	0-100	Horizontal wave displacement intensity. Simulates VHS tracking errors where scanlines shift left/right in a rolling wave pattern.
Roll Speed	0-100	Animation speed of the rolling distortion waves. Higher values = faster rolling.
Scanlines	0-100	CRT-style horizontal dark lines. Creates alternating bright/dark scanline pairs with subtle brightness variation.
Chroma Shift	0-100	RGB channel separation (chromatic aberration). Red and blue channels are offset horizontally from green, creating color fringing.
Noise	0-100	Animated static/grain overlay. Each color channel receives independent noise for a more organic look.
Jitter	0-100	Random per-scanline horizontal displacement. Creates unstable, shaky horizontal lines like a bad tape.
V-Hold	0-100	Vertical sync loss. The entire image rolls vertically as if the TV's vertical hold is misadjusted.
H-Hold	0-100	Horizontal sync loss. The entire image rolls horizontally as if the TV's vertical hold is misadjusted.
Ghosting	0-100	Signal echo effect. A faint, horizontally-offset duplicate of the image is blended in, simulating broadcast multipath interference
Vertical Sync	0-100	Creates horizontal sync loss artifacts with random horizontal displacement on scanlines
Horizontal Sync	0-100	Creates vertical sync loss artifacts with random vertical position jumps