I'm all set up to do it but I'm in Oakland CA... If you send me a digital file I can output to VHS and then capture it for you.
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Dan Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Try to find an older, working VHS camcorder and tape it off your computer > screen. Maybe your local media center, public access television station, > school or thrift store has one in the backroom somewhere... although > they're getting much harder to find working these days. > > Taping "through the air" will get rid of that harsh HD look more > organically than downgrading on a computer or running through cables... and > usually older cameras have manual image controls that you could adjust > easily to get the look you're going for. Move back and zoom in for more > softness/pixels. (HD televisions and computer screens don't tend to > flicker and wobble off the screen like they did in the old days..) > > Then, play the VHS through a monitor and record it with an iPhone or HDcamera > to get back onto an online format. Eliminating cables and programs > all together will save a lot of time/hassle/money unless you're already set > up for making transfers. > > > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Aaron F. Ross <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Why don't you just downsample it to 480p? Just export it to a lower >> resolution. No need to lay off to tape, that's just crazy talk. >> >> Aaron >> >> >> >> >> At 8/16/2013, you wrote: >> >>> Hey Im making a stopmotion video using adobe premiere and it looks >>> terrible because its HD and looks too crisp. You can see all the shitty >>> blue screening and whatnot so I want to convert it to VHS so the mistakes >>> don't look so obvious. I also like the look of VHS better than HD. I've >>> done this before using a tape deck with a firewire cable but it was so long >>> ago and I kind of forget how it was done. I also don't have acces to such >>> a tape deck. Just wondering if anyone knew how to do this and/ or had that >>> kind of tape deck available in the NYC area. Thanks >>> ______________________________**_________________ FrameWorks mailing >>> list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.** >>> webfaction.com/listinfo/**frameworks<https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> >>> >> >> ------------------------------**------------- >> >> Aaron F. Ross >> Digital Arts Guild >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.**webfaction.com/listinfo/**frameworks<https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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