I’m a big fan of editing videos in REAPER. I’ve been using v5 for making the tutorial videos here since around March of last year, I’d guess about 50 in total. I’m finally getting the hang of the video processor code. It turns out it’s very capable but there are not a lot of scripts pre-written for the users. I’ve had to constantly watch the forum for new video processor scripts and hack at stuff on my own. As of today I’m pretty happy with the scripts I’ve come up with and I can do just about everything I need with just these. The good news for you is that I’m sharing them.

Update July 2019 – The video processor presets have since been updated and are now available as part of REAPERBlog Video Tools

JT: Essential Video Controls – resize, position, crop, and change opacity
JT: Essential Color Controls – change saturation and contrast of your image
JT: Essential Text Overlay – add colored text with optional colored background to your video
JT: Essential Solid Color – adds a rectangle of RGB color

Update – Presets have been updated since this video was released.

Update July 2019 – The video processor presets have since been updated and are now available as part of REAPERBlog Video Tools


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51 responses to “Essential REAPER 5 Video Processor Presets || Video Production In REAPER”

  1. pim v dorst Avatar
    pim v dorst

    Nice your taken the effort ..not working on video but wil be in the near future .always learning something from it end its a great thing that you can do it in reaper now thanks again for all the free goodys end the best for 2016..

  2. BoothJunkie Avatar
    BoothJunkie

    Perfectly timed for my needs! Signed up for the newsletter, but not sure how to download.

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      did you get a welcome/thank you email after signup?

      1. BoothJunkie Avatar
        BoothJunkie

        Aha! Yes. Found it. Thank you. Loving this blog!

      2. Petar Dabić Avatar
        Petar Dabić

        I need a help! Can’t find it at all!

        1. Admin Avatar
          Admin

          The presets or the plugin?

  3. ReaperFan Avatar
    ReaperFan

    Great work! Thank you for sharing. It took me a little while to find the file, so for others on Win7, look here:
    c:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\REAPER\presets\

  4. Keith Handy Avatar

    How did you learn to make/alter the code for this? Did you have to reverse-engineer the existing code, or is there a simpler way to understand what each line does? There are some additional effects I would like to write if at all possible. I downloaded the available info about the EEL scripting language but not finding it easy to connect what’s in there with what I’m seeing in the Reaper video effects.

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      If you press F1 you see a bit of documentation about the video processor. There was a lot of referencing that and many hours of trial and error.

      1. Keith Handy Avatar

        Oh, thanks!! Now that you mention that, I think I saw that in the manual, but there wasn’t a flashing neon sign over it saying “PAY ATTENTION TO THIS, KEITH”, so I was looking for documentation in all the wrong places. 🙂

  5. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    Thanks – working properly, but in latest Reaper built “colour” knob not affecting anything. Probably a bug.

    1. Rob Avatar
      Rob

      It’s Saturation, not colour knob – sorry. Not working here. Not with mp4 or mov …

  6. Oss prod. Avatar
    Oss prod.

    Sorry, can’t find where to download the presets 🙁

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      Sign up here, then confirm your email. Download bundle link follows.
      http://reaperblog.net/subscribe/

      1. Oss prod. Avatar
        Oss prod.

        Thanks! Finaly got the email with link!

      2. sk Avatar
        sk

        Hello, I just subscribed and confirmed the link on the email, but still can’t find the presets.
        Do I need a wordpress account to make it work?

        1. Admin Avatar
          Admin

          there should be dropbox link in the welcome message after confirming your email.

          1. sk Avatar
            sk

            Now it works. I had to check my Spamfolder.
            Thank you for this great presets.

  7. Steve Avatar
    Steve

    Can’t seem to access the download. Getting a blank page at dropbox in chrome browser. IE shows a file, though not a zip file: file?dl=1

    ???

    Will not download for me.

    Sure would like to be able to download it. Probably will figure it out eventually, just not willing to go to computer hell tonight.

    Seems a great tool and thanks for putting it together!

  8. Sire Alex Avatar
    Sire Alex

    Well, after adding JT: Essential Text Overlay to builtin_video_processor.ini file it doesn’t work correctly: the BG Size is constantly changing in width. I tried different text names, fonts, used envelopes for the text height but the issue stays there. What I’m doing wrong? Also, is there a possibility to re-reset things?..

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      Hi Alex
      the background color rectangle is relative to the height of the font. It could be made to be independent but it might be better to use a separate instance and code for a filled rectangle instead.

  9. Jonathan Roberts Avatar
    Jonathan Roberts

    Really good video – thanks. The sign up link doesn’t seem to be working though. I thought I had singed up actually, but not heard anything so maybe not.

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      had to take the signup form down for a day due to fake signups. should work now

  10. Geir Avatar
    Geir

    I have presets downloaded and put in Reaper/presets
    but I can’t see any loaded in the video-processor.

    1. Geir Avatar
      Geir

      Watched the video, and found the help-text in the file. Working.
      thanks!

  11. Merel Moistra Avatar
    Merel Moistra

    So Here I am. Where is the free stuff??

  12. Petar Avatar
    Petar

    Thanx.

  13. Eric Martins Pereira Avatar
    Eric Martins Pereira

    Thank you, it is working now. I Just would like to know if it is not against their policies, or terms and conditions to do it. thx again if you can make it clear to me. 🙂

  14. Dave Avatar
    Dave

    Is there still a link to download the JT: Essential Video Controls – resize, position, crop, and change opacity etc. ? 🙂

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      sign up for the email list and you’ll have it

      http://reaperblog.net/subscribe/

  15. Randy Avatar
    Randy

    Thank you for the videos – very helpful. I subbed and confirmed but did not receive a link for the presets (checked spam folder as well).

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      I’m sending a newsletter today with an updated download bundle.

  16. Dennis Segelstrom Avatar

    Hi Denny here, just checked out this link you sent and although the video is great and some helpful info, it would be great if the page actually still had links to “JT: Essential Video Controls”, the only link besides social media links is to the subscriber page, which put’s me into a big loop and say’s I already am subscribed

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      I’ll email you the link tonight

      1. Robert Greenland Avatar
        Robert Greenland

        I have found the drop box, but cannot copy the text!

        1. Admin Avatar
          Admin

          you have to download the zip.

  17. Gabriel Lima Avatar
    Gabriel Lima

    How can I get this download link? Can somebody send me, please?
    Thank’s in advance!

  18. Steve Avatar
    Steve

    Same issue here Gabriel. Have been a subscriber for a long time, but cannot find the link and am repeatedly sent to sign-up page. I downloaded the file way back when I first subscribed, but never got it to work, misplaced the files, and wanted to try again.

    Jon is providing some truly great info and stuff, but dealing with the mechanics of downloading the file is simply requiring more time than I have.

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      have you been getting my newsletters? I sent one on May 8th. The link to download is at the bottom of every email.

  19. Steve Avatar
    Steve

    I’ll surely scrutinize the next one. I get all your emails, click the links, and am not seeing download links. This is not a problem specific to me (and/or Gabriel). Check comments on your youtube vids; half are expressing the same issue.

    Love what you do, Jon, and I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth (and your horses are very nice ones!). A lot of folks are missing out, though, simply because they can’t seem to find a way to download things even though they already subscribe.

    Perhaps the link is not apparent, I dunno. I’ll try harder.

    Thanks!
    Steve

  20. Chad Houser Avatar
    Chad Houser

    Cant figure out how to add the plugins. I know how VST and others install, but this is something different. Have no clue as to what a plain text editor is or how to find it. What is a “builtin_video_processor.ini” file”? Looked all over. No clue….

  21. Chad Houser Avatar
    Chad Houser

    Think I got it figured out. I have video processing in FX, Open it up & click presets. Chose a few to tinker with and they worked. Whew….. Now the learning really begins…..

  22. Steve Avatar
    Steve

    Chad, after reading your post, and the readme file that comes with the presets, I decided to have another go at getting the plugin to work for me. I created the ini file specified in the readme file (had no pre-existing one), and copied the material below the line in the readme file into that as instructed, and saved it. The location for that ini file was not specified, so I saved it to the reaper presents folder. Now when I add the video processor to a track, none of the JT presets Jon has in the video (the ones I assume you are tinkering with) show up in the video processor menu. Looks just like it always has.

    Did I create the ini file in the wrong folder? Sure would be nice to have it work for me.

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      try saving one of the built-in presets to generate the save file (builtin_video_processor.ini)
      Then paste the marked part of the text file into that file.

      I have a bunch of new presets coming and installing will be easier.

  23. Francisco Iuvara Avatar
    Francisco Iuvara

    Hey there,

    I subscribed, then I confirmed my subscription on my e-mail, but I can’t seem to find the download link, nor I received any further e-mail. I’m here I already subscribed but it asks me to subscribe again. ¿How can I solve this?

    Thanks in advance.

  24. Geoff Avatar

    Came across your video processor preset page via Google. Helped me crop my video for my band’s Lockdown video.

  25. Jiri Popek Avatar
    Jiri Popek

    Hello, I bought the pack because the crop effect but it seems that it changes the aspect ration of the underline video. I have video1 and want to put video2 as an overlay into the corner of the video1 and have it cropped. Once the video2 is show, the video1’s aspect ratio changes… is any workaround for this?

  26. Winchovski Avatar
    Winchovski

    Hello.
    Once I downloaded the JT presets, where do I put it so that they show up in the video processor’s presets ? On a mac.
    Thanks !

  27. fghj Avatar
    fghj

    try to insert it as a Take FX…

  28. IT'2G0lD Avatar
    IT’2G0lD

    Here’s something that I’d like to know; why are the JT presets that you have presented in this tutorial not available in the 2020 update; are they under a different name?

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      Turned into the Video Tools course

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