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Now that I've been educated widescreen VHS was a thing in Europe, I'll clarify:
Video creators: Stop using glitchy VHS effects on your videos. The effects never look like actual VHS did, and it's giving us who know what videotape glitching actually looks like embolisms.
Video creators: Stop using glitchy VHS effects on your videos. The effects never look like actual VHS did, and it's giving us who know what videotape glitching actually looks like embolisms.
Don't use VHS effects with 30p footage, only 24p or 60p. Don't use them for more than a few seconds; if a tape was that bad, we didn't watch it.
Don't use the "rolling line" effect more than a few seconds; that's caused by a hair wrapped around a roller that creases the tape, and we dove for the unit to get the tape out and fix it before the tape was eaten. On playback you should only see it repeat a few times, then stop.
Don't use any rolling line glitches on footage that is paused. On paused VHS, the tape isn't moving so there's nothing to roll.
Don't guess at the VHS font or text; find a vintage photo.
Don't have the text onscreen more than a few seconds -- it goes away on real players.
Don't guess at the VHS font or text; find a vintage photo.
Don't have the text onscreen more than a few seconds -- it goes away on real players.
This digital video aging authenticity public service announcement is brought to you by the Generation X Grandparents of North America Society, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Viewers Like Me.
