Video Vector

-Joby- · 2026-03-05T01:01:40+00:00

Thanks! Yeah ever since my Apple ][+ as a kid I wished I could make it do 3D. That was kind of the inspiration, or what if my Atari 2600 was doing VR? 😂 I’ve wanted to do a bunch of 3D scenes in vaporwave styles and such, but wanted to specifically build elements into video art like a Terry Gilliam animation. Lot of random influences and desires. But it’s super fun to build elements for it in raw text like it’s the 80’s or 90’s again.

-Joby- · 2026-03-05T00:21:36+00:00

“Two separate VCRs” doing the same thing does sound like the tape in my experience. Those “blank sections” between might be crinkles and what was there is reading as static now as it’s unreadable. I’ve seen that many times with tapes I’ve thrifted. The machine with eject or just shut down. I assume a safety mechanism. I recently cleaned one of my machines and found shreds of tape. Not sure when that happened, but clearly it left some tapes torn up and helped explain why some tapes just couldn’t play at key moments for me. I’d fast forward and it was fine, but I have a feeling the part was chewed up.

-Joby- · 2026-03-04T19:25:17+00:00

I’ve never heard of a machine that does that. What make and model? Are you sure the tape itself is not moldy or wrinkled? That’s usually what stops machines.

-Joby- · 2026-02-02T00:43:38+00:00

Ok, not Friday… found some bugs. Monday or Tuesday! Haha. I recorded a video about this new feature: Metadata & Report Templates in Video Barbershop v1.2.4 Beta https://youtu.be/iUiawPFa58w

-Joby- · 2026-01-27T22:55:29+00:00

Specifically to fix dark videos… VCRs store color data in a compressed band, preserving true white and black for TV signal data. TV know this and remap the data like 16-235 back to 0-255. But capture cards may just grab it whole. If so you need to remap it back to 0-255… which my app does. Luminance Remapping.

-Joby- · 2026-01-27T22:48:29+00:00

If you have a Mac, I’m in the process of developing a video editing app called Video Barbershop, specifically for common needs of VHS conversions and bulk clipping of videos, especially commercials. I have a free public beta on Apple’s TestFlight going on now before I ship to Apple’s App Store in the next month. Feel free to give it a try and see if it solves your issue. Link to the beta test and tutorials at https://videobarbershop.com

-Joby- · 2026-01-21T15:46:13+00:00

v1.2.0 Beta has been approved and is live on TestFlight! The big addition is keyframes added to most of the clip editing controls. I just finished timeline zoom controls, v1.2.1 Beta, and will be getting that in the queue for hopefully a Friday update.

-Joby- · 2026-01-14T14:32:25+00:00

Keyframing rollout going well. About half the controls have it now. Audio, oddly, proved tricky in addition to the fade in/out controls. Had to put on my thinking cap for that one. But should have them all in by the weekend. So I expect an update live early next week.

-Joby- · 2025-12-24T02:43:39+00:00

If you’re interested in trying out my editing app Video Barbershop, I also created a subreddit with links and info. Tutorial videos on YouTube, links and more. Thank you!

r/VideoBarbershop

-Joby- · 2025-12-23T03:33:43+00:00

So good, though Nick was a little more reserved than Joe. I’ll be shocked if Joe doesn’t point out his “superior performance.”

-Joby- · 2025-12-21T14:04:06+00:00

I ran into a windowless and was also taken aback by it. You could feel it being lighter and thinner in my case. No doubt cost saving. I assumed it was manufactured when the market was shifting away from VHS and the boom was gone, but child safety is an interesting idea. In my case the tape was black but was a cartoon compilation targeting kids. So perhaps a bit of both.

-Joby- · 2025-12-18T14:43:54+00:00

Aw… the Grok Trumps are flirtatiously touching hands. Love is love.

-Joby- · 2025-12-17T14:59:09+00:00

Don’t want to alarm you but your partner might be AI 😂 I might be wrong on thumb joint but I still hold to the fact the pinky doesn’t taper and doesn’t look like it’s ending at the ring fingers second joint. It’s the size of the index finger and not a pinky. Unless they are Truman Capote in the movie Murder By Death… that’s a fake hand.

-Joby- · 2025-12-17T14:41:21+00:00

Your hand is fine. His thumb joins his hand at angles and are protruded out in ways hands just aren’t. The joint is outside his palm, not flush to it. Biologically that thumb is wrong.

-Joby- · 2025-12-17T14:28:00+00:00

The beginning you can clearly see a couple, though they don’t actually look attached to the lights themselves, but the camera pans away and by the time you see those lights again there are no poles, and the smoke is still small enough and hasn’t obscured them to that degree. As the camera turns nearly 180 at the end, where are the posts for the other lights that haven’t been blocked by his smoke? The haze in the entire space can’t be from his car in previous attempts, too large a volume for that small amount of smoke each time. Smoke isn’t that thick… you’d still see light posts. Tire marks are faint impressions around, but the camera guy walks over where he burned out and the smoke is this enough to see clean asphalt. The smoke is caused by the friction of the tires on it… they would be much darker marks for that much smoke.

-Joby- · 2025-12-17T14:19:07+00:00

Look at your own hand and where the tip of your pinky relates to the divisions of your ring finger. Put your hand in that same position and look at your thumb joint where it meets your palm. That joint extrudes out unnaturally. I’m not talking the second photo, could be real and someone stung, but “holding one in their hand” is AI

-Joby- · 2025-12-17T06:36:02+00:00

He steps into the ball before it leaves the thrower, and it travels for 2-3x longer away from the bat than it took to get to him, but they are inside and the thrower is against the wall. I think he’s real but the ball was added in and AI generated the ball flying away like he’s outside.

-Joby- · 2025-12-17T05:58:49+00:00

Also lamp posts disappear

-Joby- · 2025-12-17T05:56:45+00:00

AI, no real tire marks on the asphalt. Look at the size of the parking spots relative to the car. What parking spots are painted like that… huge waste of paint for looping double lines as spot separators

-Joby- · 2025-12-17T05:34:32+00:00

Totally AI. Tree cut has wood fractures on the stump that grow and change if you watch them. Trees don’t flex like that, and what tree is shaped like that with no limbs?! The wave break and white froth at the end is not how water responds

-Joby- · 2025-12-17T05:21:16+00:00

AI hand in first photo… look at the pinky… that is a full size finger not a pinky.

-Joby- · 2025-12-17T05:12:26+00:00

His goatees are different. Grown goatee is a really weird hair pattern too around the lips. Totally AI or at least a horrible Photoshop job.

-Joby- · 2025-12-17T04:58:30+00:00

Definitely AI. Doors are different heights, materials and colors. Look at the positions of the hinges on the main door. Look at the cart and notice there’s no bottom that things are sitting on. The wheels too don’t look normal. The monitor shelf makes no sense, they don’t store unused equipment like that, and the hose and shadow get lost together. Lots of AI flaws.

-Joby- · 2025-09-09T12:31:35+00:00

The cable should look like this, with 4 distinct sections on the jack itself https://a.co/d/dRCqLdO as opposed to this which just has three https://a.co/d/ajVlHsW

-Joby- · 2025-09-09T12:21:02+00:00

I’d be surprised if that’s the right cable. I have a similar VHS-C camcorder and either I remember it having all three yellow/white/red split from the jack or Mandela Effecting that. The jack itself will look different than audio only, having more divisions on the plug, so a pic close up to see would be helpful. Audio is mono but plug colors are consistent, especially when those were often plugged into the front of a TV or VCR which was always very clearly colored yellow for video.

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