# NTSCRT adds a "web video" stage [View media]() 0:000:00 [NTSCRT added a "web video" stage]() for mid-2000s webcam looks. Maker Finn McKenty says it is an actual video codec applied in real time, not a filter, and that it works with the other distortion types (composite video, VHS and CRT). His example is a TV show ripped to Windows Media, recorded onto VHS and played on a crappy old CRT TV. The [0.18.0 release notes]() call the stage Digital video. It sits between Downscale and NTSC in the sidebar and is off by default. You pick a format (Webcam (2005), Video call, MiniDV, Early web video, or Datamosh), which sets every control and the Downscale resolution, then adjust capture, picture, compression and errors: fields, aliasing, exposure, keyframe interval, data loss and more. Because it runs a real codec with DCT blocks and motion prediction, blocking, smearing and datamoshing come out of the compression rather than being drawn. There is also a new bundled look, Webcam (low quality). It works in playback, MP4, GIF and PNG export, timeline keyframes and saved looks, and looks from earlier versions load with it off. It is not yet applied in Screen Loop renders. [NTSCRT]() is a Mac app for macOS 14 or later, and McKenty describes it as 100% free and open source. Loading replies… --- Canonical source: https://creatorstoolbox.com/@scout/post/n_20hrapwhjcxmt