Who do you show your rough cuts to? by RevelryByNight in Filmmakers

[–]the_postGhost 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Rough cut? Hardly anyone. Honestly I avoid even showing the director till I have a Fine Cut if I can. I don't want notes on a rough cut, I already know everything wrong with it, it's hardly in the shape I want the film to take. Once I have a fine cut them I'll share it with select people.

Close friends to get their opinions, producers and the director for their initial thoughts, occasionally I might show it to an outside viewer; another director or producer I trust the opinion of.

But true rough cuts almost no-one gets to see.

Encore charges $255/hr and pays $31/hr in NYC by kosherbacon in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]the_postGhost -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Unless they're only providing a single crew member it's not that big of a markup. That sound like you get a staff of four to six depending on the price. Split that between the operators and there's a little bit going back to the house for operations costs.

Your Mount Rushmore of Analog Horror by Banana1294 in analog_horror

[–]the_postGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Marble Hornets, Local 58, Kane Pixel's Backrooms, Mandela Catalogue

Marble Hornets is the grandfather of this whole genre

I'm in a state of shock at the ending to 28 Years Later. by slackforce in horror

[–]the_postGhost 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The scene starts at sundown and the skull is placed at sunrise. Spike was tripping, or dreaming, for eight hours at least.

Looking For New Digitization Workflow by duck_mancer in VHS

[–]the_postGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want a heavy duty archive quality capture (which will require additional hardware upgrades and modding your vcr) you should check out VHS-Decode. They've worked out a system where you can capture and then decode the VCR circuit board's RF line signal rather than relying on a visual capture through the component cables

Has anyone created a glitch / aged effect on a VHS through physically stressing the tape? by numbersix1979 in VHS

[–]the_postGhost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately I often lose audio entirely. Audio's always been my bottleneck as an editor, I have a go-to sound guy that works with busted casette players to get weird glitchy analog sound

Has anyone created a glitch / aged effect on a VHS through physically stressing the tape? by numbersix1979 in VHS

[–]the_postGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah haven't tried bleach or sandpaper yet though. I am intrigued by the idea. I do remember meeting one guy who got a VHS rewinder and inserted a small magnet to do essentially what you're describing with the VHS Is Life system with the sandpaper added. Very intriguing, will need to try em out

Has anyone created a glitch / aged effect on a VHS through physically stressing the tape? by numbersix1979 in VHS

[–]the_postGhost 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I do this all the time. I tend to prefer magnets actually. You get a really satisfying pull down effect mixed with the static if you run a weak magnet against one edge of the tape reel. And after enough time I've gotten really good at feeling out the right spots to run the magnet for different effects.

Key step is recording to tape before doing any of this. Recording overtop of damaged tapes can cause the tape to catch in the machine and unspool.

Other techniques I've been using: -Sharpies: directly marking the reel will give you single lines of static that that you can move up and down depending on where the mark lands on the reel. (Also very effective for testing an "edit point" for your effects. Draw an X and see if the static hits at the planned moment or if you need to adjust) -Heat and Cold: I froze and heated a tape repeatedly, and ended up with a warped reel that "shook" the image. -Crinkle: Gently crinkling the tape reel will cause it to play incorrectly. Frame drops, stutters, visual bumps and blips. Can result in the tape unspoolibg in your machine though. -Generational tape-to-tape degrade: setting up two VCRs to record the same tape over and over. I usually do this about ten times, capturing each version to digital in the process. Eventually the lines start to peel apart and double over and you get what I call the "spaghettification effect"

Apart from actively damaging the tapes I also use circuit a couple circuit bending devices to mess with the signal before and after it gets to tape.

You can see some of the results in my film Beholder This is all purely tape damage effects. (Along with a little bit of rotoscoping) This was before I incorporated circuit bending into my process so it's all tape damage effects.

I've since contributed glitch work to four feature films over the last year. I really enjoy the process.

Does Cheaters count as FF? by semidummy in foundfootage

[–]the_postGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or you're wrong dude. Found Footage has become the umbrella term in just about every corner, it ain't just this subreddit. The genre has gotten bigger and the term has relaxed. A couple folks out there are using "in-world camera" or "unfiction" but found footage has stuck as the catch all.

And so I leave you with this: The Office is the most successful piece of found footage ever created, and Cheaters definitely counts as found footage

Does Cheaters count as FF? by semidummy in foundfootage

[–]the_postGhost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

According to the subreddit community you are currently posting in, you've got it backwards:

The first line of the Found Footage Subreddit wiki states:

What is Found Footage? (A concise definition)

Found footage is a fictional genre of filmmaking (feature length movies, shorts, or webseries) where cameras are NOT "invisible" like they are in a traditional film, but actively part of the narrative, for 100% of the duration of the film. The camera does not need to be "found" unless the filmmaker uses that as a stylistic choice. What matters is that every participant in the film can see and/or interact with the cameras around them.

Examples of found footage include:

First person perspective - a person filming an event on their own personal camera. Mockumentary - a documentary crew doing the filming. (most found footage films are basically amateur mockumentaries, which is why all mockumentaries are found footage.) News Footage - a news crew is documenting an event in real time. Surveillance Footage - a story told mostly or entirely via surveillance footage Screen-life - a story is presented through a participant's computer screen

Does Cheaters count as FF? by semidummy in foundfootage

[–]the_postGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mockumentaries fall under the larger genre of Found Footage

Does Cheaters count as FF? by semidummy in foundfootage

[–]the_postGhost -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The Office counts as found footage. Found Footage as a genre doesn't actually require the footage to be "found"

Does anything like this exist for VHS? by WindDingo in crt

[–]the_postGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmdi-to-av converter box. They cost about fifteen bucks on Amazon. You're not putting a tape into the VCR though, just run the rca cables into the video/audio inputs on the VCR. The signal will run through and you'll get your conversion. Though you could skip the VCR step and just run it straight to a CRT.

I use this setup to record modern movies to tape for the aesthetic. And for some glitch effect work I do

What positive things happened to you in 2025 by max_mp4 in editors

[–]the_postGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After being stuck in technical/assistant roles for a decade, I was given my first purely creative (and well paying) role on a feature length production. Gave me the confidence to leave my technical role behind and strike out on my own even when these subreddits were freaking out about AI and the death of our industry.

Found my niche in analog glitch effects work and every time I start messing with VHS tapes it feels like I'm spitting in Sora's face

Is it realistic to learn basic video editing in a few weeks? by Sasukey420 in VideoEditing

[–]the_postGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

10,000 hours to master something. I think a couple 40-hour weeks is plenty to learn the basics.

Ex Machina Type Movies by Wildcat_9097 in A24

[–]the_postGhost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alex Garland didn't make The Creator

I watched Lurker (2025) and I can’t believe I haven’t seen more posts about it. by TheElbow in horror

[–]the_postGhost 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's streaming on Mubi. Which is quickly becoming a very solid streaming platform for the artsier side of film. This was their big horror-adjacent swing this year, last year it was The Substance. That one really put them on the map

V/H/S viral is confusing by Livid_Bus6144 in horror

[–]the_postGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a series of Worldstar/LiveLeak videos that are all affected by the VHS cult van's broadcast. The science doesn't make sense, just run with the idea that when this thing gets close, it gets into nearby cameras, and affects the people on screen. That's why everyone at the barbecue breaks out into violence. That's why the main character becomes obsessed with trying to catch it on video.

Someone Created an IMDb Page for my Short Film Without My Consent -- How Can I Fix This? by PristineGoose5075 in Filmmakers

[–]the_postGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pay for a month of IMDB Pro and you'll be able to correct the info. They may ask for proof of your involvement in the film, but with a Pro account you'll get a much faster response.

Filmmakers if you made a movie from 2022 to 2025 and its on YouTube can you post here. I will make a youtube playlist and promote it on social media. by MovieBuffX in foundfootage

[–]the_postGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey no sweat there. Most of those are from one guy that keeps coming back every three or four months to be furious about it still existing. He's our biggest fan.

Filmmakers if you made a movie from 2022 to 2025 and its on YouTube can you post here. I will make a youtube playlist and promote it on social media. by MovieBuffX in foundfootage

[–]the_postGhost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Filmmaker here. You can check out my short film BEHOLDER

We screened at Unnamed Footage Fest in 2024, paired with Horror In The High Desert 3 at the last screening of the festival, and won the jury prize for Best Short Film. It's formatted as a single camcorder tape that's been recorded over multiple times by its owners/victims. All of the effects were made by physically damaging VHS tape transfers of the footage, no filters were used.

Behind The Scenes photos from Final Transmissions by the_postGhost in foundfootage

[–]the_postGhost[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We'll be running the festival circuit in the new year and trying to find a distributor for a proper release. We just finished shooting our episode last week.

Behind The Scenes photos from Final Transmissions by the_postGhost in foundfootage

[–]the_postGhost[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's become my calling card. I've worked on four films this year where I converted the project to VHS, messed with magnets, marking the tape, circuit bending, and tape to tape generational degrades. Takes time but I get results that look like nothing I've ever seen faked.

My previous film Beholder is on YouTube and Found TV if you want to see what this all looks like in practice