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WIP Retro Bundle

Two retro effects in one install: halftone print and old TV screens, plus a VHS tape with PLAY / REC on screen.

FreeEffectResolve 21 (tested on Mac) · Free and StudiomacOS + Windows

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colour halftone · CMYK print · halftone + VHS tape · VHS play · CRT

What it is

What it does

WIP Retro Halftone turns any clip into colour or mono halftone, ink on paper, CMYK print, a line screen, or an LCD, LED, pixel or CRT screen, and keeps it alive with a little jitter on twos and a slow drift. Switch VHS Tape on and the same look plays off an old tape in one pass. WIP VHS is the tape on its own: wobble, colour bleed, a rolling tracking band, dropouts, glitch bursts and the camcorder's PLAY or REC with your own date and time. Both play in real time in free Resolve.

WIP Retro Halftone: Colour and Mono Halftone, Ink on Paper, CMYK Print, Line Screen
Four TV screens: LCD Stripes, LED Dots, Square Pixels and CRT
Scanlines, screen curve, RGB split, glow and a rolling bar on any style
Alive motion: jitter on twos or threes and a slow drift, so stills look like they are playing
VHS Tape switch: tape wobble, tracking lines and PLAY / REC over any look, in the same pass
WIP VHS: colour bleed, tracking, dropouts, bottom tear, glitch bursts and your own date and time
Runs on your GPU and works in free Resolve

Use it for

Retro and comic-book looks for reels
Throwback and memory edits
Music videos
Screens inside a scene, thumbnails and posters

Tips

Smaller dots keep faces readable; big dots read as bold graphics.
For dots on tape, switch VHS Tape on inside WIP Retro Halftone instead of stacking WIP VHS on top: one pass plays in real time.
REC with a real date sells home video.
Glitch Bursts around 0.3 feels real; above 0.7 it reads as broken.
After updating, delete the effect from your clip and drag it on again.

Install · about a minute

Four steps

01
Unzip the download and keep the folder together.
02
Mac: double-click Install (Mac).command. If macOS says it can't be opened, right-click it and choose Open. Windows: double-click Install (Windows).bat.
03
Restart DaVinci Resolve.
04
On the Edit page, open Effects › Effects › anukalp.wip, drag WIP Retro Halftone or WIP VHS onto a clip, select the clip and open the Inspector to change everything.

Double-click doesn't work? Copy the .drfx into ~/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/Templates/ on Mac, or %APPDATA%\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Fusion\Templates\ on Windows, then restart Resolve.

Full guide with every control (PDF) →

Troubleshooting

If something's off

It isn't in the Effects library. Restart Resolve after installing. Still missing? Use the manual install path above.
It looks different from the demo. Check you're on Resolve 21, then compare your Inspector settings with the defaults in the guide.
Known issues: The bundle has two parts, so double-clicking only the .drfx is not enough. Use the installer. Stacking WIP VHS on WIP Retro Halftone plays slower than the VHS Tape switch. Windows has not been tested yet. If it misbehaves, tell us.

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Compatibility

Version 1.0.0

Works on	macOS, Windows
DaVinci Resolve	21 (tested on Mac) · Free and Studio
Released	12 Nov 2026
Download size	4.5 MB

What's new in 1.0.0

First release: WIP Retro Halftone (five print styles, four TV screens, alive motion, VHS Tape switch) and WIP VHS (tape wobble, tracking, glitches, PLAY / REC with your date).

Free download · 4.5 MB

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