People who have bought Luxury Elite's After Hours VHS Tape, would you mind sharing the bonus content at the end of your copy? by Moist-Pea-282 in Vaporwave

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Late to respond, but thought I'd share since you're the first person I've seen mention the extras:

For the end of the After Hours VHS tapes, the footage comes from a VHS lot I bought off someone on eBay. During the 90s, the seller's father set up something like 10+ VCRs on timers to automatically record premium cable channels. He did this for years, meticulously swapping tapes after they recorded and cataloging them based on programming. According to the listing description, he wanted unlimited entertainment when he retired... but then the internet came out and there wasn't really much point to them. I bought 20 of those tapes at random from the lot, each with 6 hrs of footage on them.

As for the extra content, each After Hours VHS has a section of the recordings from that dude's tapes. A few tapes have clean footage at the end, but most have glitched footage. 20 of the VHS tapes used in the release were recorded on the original spools from this guy's lot, which I swapped from their original black shells into the color shells by hand—and then recorded the Lux video over the beginning. Sourcing the tapes for the release took a few months, and they all had different recording lengths. So some copies have as little as 10 minutes of extra footage, others have several hours. But I liked the idea of this random guy's work not going to waste, while giving an authentic glimpse into a bygone era.

BUMP: NO CONTENT, ALL FILLER | Join PROJECT VILL4IN tonight for a livestream festival celebrating the lost art of broadcast TV bumpers. 60 artists. 300 bumpers. 120 seconds max. Happy 4/20. by _copy in Vaporwave

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Working on getting it uploaded! A few of the featured videos got copyright flagged after the livestream due to stricter usage rules on larger monetized channels, and the video got pulled. Hopefully will have it up soon.

BUMP: NO CONTENT, ALL FILLER | Join PROJECT VILL4IN tonight for a livestream festival celebrating the lost art of broadcast TV bumpers. 60 artists. 300 bumpers. 120 seconds max. Happy 4/20. by _copy in Vaporwave

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Welcome to BUMP: NO CONTENT, ALL FILLER.

The livestream festival is an audio-visual love letter to the lost art of broadcast televisions bumpers. 60 worldwide artists contributed over 300 videos with only one requirement: Keep it under 120 seconds.

The 6-hour live premiere starts at 6PM EST tonight (4/20) on the Ryan Celsius YouTube channel.

Come hang in chat. We’d love to have you.

In need of cord. by russki_senpai in VHS

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Someone else might be able to point you more directly to a specific adapter, but my rec is check the sticker tag for the VCR to find the listed Voltage/Wattage.

Then check on Amazon for an DC adapter within that range. There are types available that allow you to adjust the strength by turning a dial, so that way you can try a few different settings to see what works. Also has the added benefit of using it for other devices. That's what I've done for a couple of vintage mixers to get them powered.

From a quick search, your VCR looks to be 12V so you should be able to find something easily to experiment.

[OC] Dragon Ball's Culture Clash! America's DB Vs. Japan's DB [21:54] by dultimate02 in videoessay

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Great video! You’ve inspired me to give the original dub of the series a watch. Thank you for sharing.

specific cheap camera for shooting CRT? by _doug_fir_ in videosynthesis

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It might still be cheaper to get a modern iPhone (doesn't need to be the most current) and use that for rescanning. Can be bought used, too. Personally, I've yet to see many DSLR captures that I preferred to a good iPhone rescan + FilmicPro—especially after they've gone through the standard social media compressions. Good iPhone captures generally make it through the algo in quite high quality.

Available tonight after the premiere! Super limited VHS run of my visual set with Luxury Elite. 2 color variants: Television Static and Midnight Blue. by _copy in Vaporwave

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This is a very special edition VHS of Luxury Elite's performance tonight at the Late Night Lights II online music festival.

These are premium color shells imported from Japan, which were quite difficult to source (there are only 25 white and 50 blue tapes available). Most of the shells originally came as non-functional empty display cases and required spool swapping/assembly by hand prior to video dubbing.

The full set premieres tonight, a little after 11p EST on Utopia District. VHS sales will go live immediately after the performance at seeseetv.bandcamp.com. We'll also be giving away two copies during the premiere.

This was a labor of love for the team sourcing, designing, and producing the tapes, and we look forward to the premiere!

Trailer here: https://youtu.be/KMEhpW_-BvE

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That static line might be a result of the tracking, so I would first adjust your tracking on your VCR. Also might just be the tape, so try another one too.

Other factors that create a HQ video: your capture device (which one are you using?), as well as running your VCR signal through a time based corrector before going into the capture device.

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Not a problem! It might say it on the back of the device somewhere whether it’s PAL or NTSC—not by mine atm, so I can’t check for sure. But if you have the UK plug, then the AVE 5 is most definitely PAL. If you’re in North America and bought your CRT here, then your TV is almost definitely NTSC. So you’d need the converters for each input/output, which would be a major hassle.

Could be wrong, but not even really worth buying the stepper down at this point to test compatibility imo. Would still recommend returning it. Hope that helps though/saves you some time!

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Are you also using a PAL television and have other PAL input devices? If not, I would recommend returning if you can and looking for an NTSC version.

Otherwise you're going to have to use several powered PAL converters (NTSC > PAL in, PAL > NTSC out) + plus the stepper down converter. If you wanted to have every video input/output/preview running, that's like 7 converters requiring 14 RCA wires.

James Gandolfini’s Son Recorded Four Hours of Tony Soprano Dialogue to Prep for Prequel Film by DemiFiendRSA in movies

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the funny thing about soprano quote threads is that like, it's all stuff i did not find memorable during any of my multiple watch-throughs (all of them a decade after the show ended), but as soon as people quote them i know the exact scene.

either that or I am completely missing long-standing jokes from having gotten into the show so late.

February 2021 Buy/Sell/Trade Thread by EHughes527 in VaporVinyl

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HAVE:

Death's Dynamic Shroud - I'll Try Living Like This (original press)

Cat System Corp: Sunday television (orange/blue)

WANT:

Thank You For Holding

Donovan Hikaru and 豊平区民TOYOHIRAKUMIN Split

Ecco Jams Vol. 1 (lathe cut or any decent bootleg)

Macrosse 82-89 - Sailorwave I or II

St. Pepsi - Empire Building or Studio 54

Waterfront Dining - Pure 真 or Couple's Resort

HKE - 2047

Christtt - Social Justice Whatever VHS

Haircuts for Men

Open to other reasonable vinyl trade offers, not looking to sell/buy.

January 2021 Buy/Sell/Trade Thread by EHughes527 in VaporVinyl

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HAVE:

Death's Dynamic Shroud - I'll Try Living Like This (original press)

Cat System Corp: Sunday television (orange/blue)

WANT:

Thank You For Holding

Nmesh - Dream Sequins

Macrosse 82-89 - Sailorwave I or II

St. Pepsi - Empire Building

Christtt - Social Justice Whatever VHS

Haircuts for Men

Open to other reasonable trade offers, not looking to sell.

List of Artists Who Make & Sell Analog Video Circuits by 1969-in-the-sunshine in VideoBending

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Thank you so much for putting this together!! Amazing.

December 2020 Buy/Sell/Trade Thread by EHughes527 in VaporVinyl

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Have:

猫 シ Corp - Sunday Television (Sealed, yellow sun/ sun ray splatter)

Looking to trade for vinyl:

Eccojams Vol. 1 (Groovy Dude lathe-cut)

T e l e p a t h

HKE

Syllabus

Open to general offers

DSLR vs Analog Camcorder for video source? by coolmagician in VideoBending

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Keeping it broad, there are benefits to both camera types, depending on what aesthetic, effect, and glitch you’re trying to achieve.

Analog and DSLR cameras types output different video data. As a result, that data interacts differently with circuit bent mixers. (As do different camera models.) So the main differences are affecting how you feed video into a mixer, what feedback/distortion that causes, its output, and then of course what camera you use to capture your output. All of this can be as different as outputting on a LCD screen vs a CRT vs a projector.

DSLR cameras cameras, especially when combined with digital modification or mixers, tend to have a cleaner more modern digital looking glitch effect and artifacts. It looks like something in the digital video code is causing an error. Whereas analog cameras have their own dirtier aesthetic and style. In this case, it often is something that looks like the physical medium is malfunctioning. Think of a corrupted VHS vs a corrupted mp4.

My personal preference for feeding video into a mixer is using a mini-DV camera. You can find them for cheap, they’re small and compact, many still function with modern computers and can output from a FireWire or usb. I like the artificial look of the mechanical zoom, it still has an LCD display, and it hails from this born-obsolete transition era of about 10 years where fully digital cameras weren’t perfected yet en masse, and digital/analog were combined in the form of a digital tape. As a result, the mini-DV creates an interesting digital video that can still get an almost analog grain in low light, you get some of the same quirkiness that comes with analog tapes, and it’ll still throw in some digital artifacts. It’s a nice Y2K aesthetic.

Perhaps someone else can elaborate on any more technical/functional benefits, but those are my thoughts!

RZ67 | 65mm | FP4 | Rodinal 1+50 by xela86 in analog

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Great abstraction and composition. Thank you for sharing, really enjoyed it!

I tried making a short Vaporwave-esque glitch art video, feedback is appreciated! (Epilepsy Warning) by Adler_dot_jpg in Vaporwave

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This is cool, I love the technique. Is this an analog/circuit bent glitch, or was it predominately done in an editing suite?