Like I wrote in the post there are tutorials to make a similar effect but from what I can tell those tutorials are for other proprietary software programs. I couldn't find a tutorial to make the effect on an open source video editor. Professionals would record the type of information such as licensed software used in the video log metadata.
I am sure the footage you got was bright and clear but how often did you play it through the VCR? Oh, and remember every time you bought a blank VHS tape a small part of the retail price you paid went to the MPAA because it was assumed the VHS tape would be used to record a movie broadcast. It didn't matter if you were recording a family picnic or a trip to the beach on the blank VHS tape. It was just assumed you were going to record copyrighted material.
Yeah, interesting. To answer your questions, they varied. So, as a family, we have had dozens to hundreds of video tapes, some played a lot, some played a little, in VCRs, some eaten up, some repaired, some destroyed. Excellent video and audio quality for some of the tapes and less so on some of the others, especially ones from the 1980's.
VHS Effect Filter
I understand that acquiring filters is tempting. So, if you got the money, then have at it. That's what I'd say to anybody. But at the same time, I would probably find a free version of the filter or find a way to design my own filter or I would send my video out of my computer and into my VCR and record it on my VCR and then record it back and forth from VCR to VCR to degrade the value until the video starts to look old. So, if I really wanted to do, I would try to experiment using different video editors and I would Google it to see if others have done it. If all of that fails, assuming I don't want to just buy the filter, I would do the VCR option.
Or burn the video to DVD and then put the DVD into a DVD player or DVD VCR Combo Recorder.
If people wanted to learn how to do it for free, I would gladly help them. I probably should post an article about how to connect a computer to a VCR. Probably need an adapter. The laptop would probably need HDMI out. A VCR would probably not have HDMI in but it's possibly to buy an adapter. And you can downgrade the video by recording it from VCR to VCR using a coax cable and make sure the cable wire is very long or have it run through some adapters or cut up the cord a little to add interference to degrade the video faster or perhaps put it in a dirty VCR.
Someday somebody will be looking for a 90s VHS filter on the internet. Maybe there still won't be a free or open source filter equal in quality to what the commercial software offers but that person will come across this post during the Google search and see your suggested method. Realizing time is money they'll decide to get the commercial software as a business expense and write it off as a tax deduction.
Somehow you should get a sales commission for that.😀
Likewise, we should get sales commission when people leave Facebook and come to Hive or Gab or Bitchute or Minds or Steem or other places.
I was all onboard with you up until you brought steem into it.😀
Haha yeah, I wouldn't put money into Steem but I don't mind collecting and pulling money out of Steemit.