'VHS-effect' is this possible?

[Winfield]

Hi there, great to see all the video love Reaper gets atm - and a dedicates video-forum to boot!

I'm looking for a 'VHS-effect' like in the first few seconds of this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQY6jXEhXls

Is it possible in reaper (or at all?)

Thank you
-W

[EpicSounds]

basically you get stock assets that have those glitches (often with solid grey or green background) and overlay them your video.

One example where I've done this is from a vlog


https://youtu.be/CqwaXFQh4x0




The beginning and end static noise is playing alone, through the train part there is a different glitch asset with 'simple source chroma key' preset used to remove the green background.

[Eliseat]

There are great tutorials of how to create this effect in Blender. The used nodes could be a perfect helper to recreate something similar in Reaper. Here for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qitRVr56Cs

And the output looks awesome.

You can of course add some of this typical VHS noise with overlay or color key but its not possible to recreate color shift and horizontal distortion with that method as the source material needs to get manipulated with the noise. I'm sure this could be done in video processor. The color shift effect was already requested somewhere. (Edit: Haha, it was you Winfield! Click here!) And the needed wavy distortion doesn't look to complicated. Maybe this effect could be created by using a horizontal color noise overlay, color shift and wavy distortion presets together?

If I get time I will make a test noise overlay like in the blender tutorial to share here for further testing.

Eli

[EpicSounds]

OK decided to have another go at making RGB Layers using Justin's new color correction script. It's pretty clunky but much better result than the previous time I tried.

https://youtu.be/I5t89JzoE84




Here I'm using 3 layers of same video with a slight X and Y position shift on middle and bottom layers. Each layer has R, G, or B isolated. The R and B layers have what I've saved as 'lighten/screen overlay'. Without the position shift the video looks normal.

img1=0;
img2=input_track(0);
gfx_blit(img2);

gfx_mode = 1;
gfx_blit(img1,0);

And then above that I have a tracking error stock with green keyed out.

[Winfield]

Thanks a lot for the suggestions!
EpicSounds, that second one looks good - but yeah a bit clunky, but doable.
Eliseat -Yeah that was me That 'blender effect' looke really good - -ow I suggest you take some time off, you know, relax and test the noise overlay thingy etc.

-W

[Eliseat]

Originally Posted by EpicSounds

OK decided to have another go at making RGB Layers using Justin's new color correction script. It's pretty clunky but much better result than the previous time I tried...

Here I'm using 3 layers of same video with a slight X and Y position shift on middle and bottom layers. Each layer has R, G, or B isolated. The R and B layers have what I've saved as 'lighten/screen overlay'. Without the position shift the video looks normal.

img1=0;
img2=input_track(0);
gfx_blit(img2);
gfx_mode = 1;
gfx_blit(img1,0);

And then above that I have a tracking error stock with green keyed out.

Seems like you only posted part of the code because it doesn't work. But that's a really promising start. Now some noise and horizontal strikes and it rocks VHS.

Tomorrow I will take a look at how to create the noise overlay in Blender. I've found a node preset with an absolutely stunning VHS illusion. Take a look at this.



Those are the cleanest render outputs from Blender running thru the post processing VHS nodes. Feels like 1988! Amazing.

[Eliseat]

Hi,

I tried to recreate the old VHS noise. The tutorials weren't as helpful as expected because they all use distortion and color shift. So I did it myself (not in a sexual manner ) and combined extreme low color noise (30px) with fine (2px), vertical streaking (18px,2px) and white vertical streaking noise (30px,5px). It doesn't look as good as expected because only noise just isn't enough. But combined with rgb-shift this could be something usable.

Here is an example:




And here is a screenshot of how I set up the project.



As you can see I had to blur the image. I also used a vignette to make the noise more present at the edges. wwwmaze's blend preset was used to blend it over (mode 2). I will upload the noise video shortly. Link will be added!

Greetings
Eli

[Winfield]

Woohoo, the 'RGB decompose' was the filter I was looking for in in another thread - just set the offsets higher (eg 2000).
Also great for the VHS effect.

Very nice - Great success!

-W