aren't you glad that we live in a different era
today we're going to be looking at how to create a vhs look this is perfect for
recreating stuff from the 90s the 80s or just being a little bit different
i guess if you enjoyed that opening example be sure to like this video
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for this tutorial you can follow along in HitFilm Express but i'm going to be
using HitFilm Pro this is because it has two effects that are exclusive to
HitFilm Pro that are incredibly useful for this
effect but hey why not download the demo of HitFilm Pro and try it out today
anyway let's get old school that was terrible let me do that again
first off we need to create our composite shot
i have some footage here that we shot at 1080p but that is a
by nine aspect ratio and we want to go for four by three so we're going to grab
my footage and bring it down to composite shot oh
him to change this into a four by three
aspect ratio we'll go down to the cog and i'm gonna change this to 1400
by 1050 and now that's a 4x3 but we still have all this space
if you want to move anything around now the whole point of this overlay is to
make our footage look less modern first off let's de-res this
we're going to add a mosaic which you can find under distort
and apply that on and already you can see that it's
derezed it i'm going to do this by 480 by 360. that's the traditional
resolution of an old tv nowadays we can do like 12k
as you'll notice we have a lot of color and contrast within this image we want
to get rid of that let's find a brightness and contrast
apply that on underneath our mosaic and we're going to
dial up the brightness to about 50 and then the contrast to 50 also and
you'll see that looks a lot more washed out
and a little bit naff so we can see immediately what a difference that is
making to us if your shot has too much color in or
not enough then add a hue and saturation and you can dial up the sat so you've
got a little bit more data yep or decrease it so it's even flatter i
think that's pretty good around there just for
a little bit more than we need next up we're gonna add a
vignette so i'll go to the new layer icon
hit plain name it vinnie i'm going to get the elliptical mask
double tap it and invert give it a little feather
and change that so yeah that way you've got the darkness going
around the edges mind your own business and then you see
bro this image is sharp but we're going to
uh over sharpen it so let's add a grade layer and press f2
to rename this sharpen and we're going to first off get the unsharpen mask
and apply that on and change it to the preset add texture
and then we're going to duplicate it because we want to get another one which
is enhanced detail i'm going to up the radius to about
maybe 20. you can see what we're doing here we're
now actually like bringing up that really kind of like crunchy detail
in any other effect you should not be doing this
i'm bob benson part of the team
in our opening example we had a lot of scratches going on this is usually from
uh struggles to play back the vhs so let's
add a couple another grade layer let's rename the scratches
we're gonna go ahead and add a fractal noise this looks way too much
but we're gonna go into transform and axis scale
and bring the x all the way up and then i think we can leave y as is
maybe ah yeah no i'm going to bring the y to
about 25 actually what we're going to be doing from here
is just taking the seed and then animating it so it over the
course of our clip what this will do is just change it
every few frames so it's never exactly the same move my keyframe all
the way to the edge so that way over the course of your
animation it's constantly changing and flickering and it's
just a really cool effect to bring in some more detail add a
sharpen a normal sharpen this time not an unsharpen
gonna dial that up nice and crunchy and finally a curves this is
to bring in as much detail as you can and definition we don't really want
gray we want black and white finally all we're going to do is change this blend
mode to soft light that's a little bit too
strong so maybe i'm going to dial down the opacity
ever so slightly so it's a bit more subtle
they act as like additional scan lines because this is still too clean let's
add another grade layer and this one will be our grain there are a couple
ways that you could go about doing this one you could have a
film grain and that'll work just fine if you dial that to about an eight
millimeter alternatively there's the option to do a
actual grain effect and then you just dial the amount
to a point that you're really happy with yeah that's looking really bad good job
one thing that we added to the opening example was the distortion line
this is a really subtle thing to kind of give it that like signal
loss sensation go to new layer add another grade we're doing a lot of
grades and we'll call this the waves uh and we're going to move this
underneath our sharpen as well because we want that to match up
first off i'm going to zoom out a little bit
cool if we go to the mask tool and get a rectangle mask
double tap and it'll highlight the entire area
so what we can do from here is grab all these points and make a mask we want it
to animate over the entire screen and this is probably the easiest way that we
can go about it open up the mask details go into
transform and hit path from this will be our first
keyframe so let's grab that top and bring that all the way down
to about a bar this big i want to highlight all those clips and make sure
that goes completely off screen and on the other end of my timeline
these now with the mask being animated we can add some effects
first off let's add another mosaic this will just help
lower the resolution a little bit more so it looks really
naff when it comes over you can see in that area where we're
where we're attacking and and then we're going to go
and add waves you can find this under distort but
i'm just i just like to type and then yeah
apply waves what we're going to do from here is
just dial up the amplitude and then lower the frequency
so maybe about three would work oh too big so let's bring that down a bit
and all i want to do from here is just feather the strength
of my mask one last thing i missed out on is bringing up
the phase speed you want to animate this just so ever so slightly so it kind of
like moves across otherwise it will be static
and once you have one of these you can then duplicate it
let's call this one big waves offset it ever so slightly by a few
frames and then change the settings of the
amplitude and the frequency
and just have some crazy distortion going on
nice the last effect and probably the main reason that we're in pro today
is for chromatic aberration so we'll go into grade
f2 chromatic and let's find chromatic aberration it may not look
like much right now but if i dial up the distance to the maximum distance
you can see that the rgb values have now divided they've
split from certain distances and you see this all the time in old footage to me
this is the main effect that makes it look
very old but i don't want it to be everywhere you'll often see it around
the edges of frame more than actually on a subject so let's mask this
layer ever so slightly with an elliptical mask and invert it
and kind of like with the vignette we're just going to
feather this ever so slightly and that's it you've taken hd footage and
grungified it into the 90s congratulations again this effect was
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