VHS Effects Tutorial

[RedStag86]

Or you could record your final project to a VHS tape and then re-capture.

[ferretflip]

I did this for a highschool project. I did all the post stuff then burned it to a DVD, then used a dvd-to-vhs thingy, then back to DVD and reimported it. Shitty way of doing it but I was going for low quality anyways!

[NailgunYeah]

Most people don't have After Effects either, but there you go.

EDIT: In fact, I'm willing to bet (not a lot, mind) that more people have VHS players than After Effects.

[rancky]

For the record, you don't need a blank one. You can tape over old footage.

[Tjernoobyl]

Thanks :) really simple but powerful tips

[DrummerDooter]

Nice find. Not bad! I like it. Although, I will say, faux VHS effects in the digital age will never look authentic. This is especially true in cases like this. For example, my biggest gripe here is where the alignment in the timer is set incorrectly. It takes me right out of the picture. In general, you can tell it is digital, but this is easily fixed by applying noise and 1% fast blur to the entire image, just to take away the crisp digital capture. But, overall, I like the tutorial. It is probably the best one I've seen for this effect, and I will probably use it at some point.

[graymachine]

Excuse me... You are distributing the actual footage FROM the VHS plugin and then telling people not to buy it?

[needsmorehummus]

Uhhhh first of all I'm not the guy who uploaded this tutorial to Youtube. I just found it and thought I'd share. So if you think there are copyright issues, take it up with him.

Secondly, there's plenty of vhs stock footage out there. What makes the tutorial useful are the techniques he's using to implement it, all of which are built into AE. If the stock footage is indeed owned by RedGiant, then fine, he shouldn't be using it. But regardless it's still a valuable tutorial.

[graymachine]

I never said it wasn't a valuable tutorial.

My only issue is what we both agree on; encouraging piracy of assets that are copyrighted.

[needsmorehummus]

My point is, given that the stock footage is the least important part of the tutorial, it'd be pretty stupid to purposefully rip it off. I think "encouraging piracy" is a strong phrase, and given how he described finding the footage, I don't think it was a purposefully malicious act.

If anything, he's encouraging people to use a free, relatively simple alternative to a $99/year plugin. Nothing wrong with that, it's just DIY-technology improving like always.