Damaged TV and aged Video effect plug-ins needed, or how to!!!!

[Ron Lindeboom]

Stephen Smith has a tutorial online that requires no plug-ins nor anything other than what ships with FCP. It is at…

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/smith_stephen/badTV.php

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Tracey Dunn]

Nattress film effects, but they’re not free, but
in my opinion worth the price!

[Dave Jenkins]

CGM has these effects.

https://www.cgm-online.com/eiperle/cgm_e.html

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[Peter Wiggins]

No tutorials, no plugins, no downloads

in FCP

Filters/Stylize/Bad TV

Peter

[Ron Lindeboom]

Thanks for the reminder, Peter. ;o)

As I joke with my kids, I am not getting senile, it’s just that with all the people, books, movies, music and all the other memories I have, my brain is full.

I guess I am going to have to actually use the effect again, then I will remember it. It’s been a long time since I threw old TV look onto anything.

Ron Lindeboom

[Tracey Dunn]

Yes, good point Peter!
I should’ve thought of that as well.
Sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees.
Too many late night edit sessions.
In my pathetic defense, typing Bad TV
in to the FCP user manual window
gives me 0 occurrences?
T.

[Ben Scott]

maybe go have a look at my podcast on link below, 3 or 4 tutorials on how to animate in final cut pro or motion to create a bad TV effect

sometimes an effect is best built up carefully

[Ben Scott]

it never posted my link

its at https://cowcast.creativecow.net/final_cut_pro/index.html

[Dylan Reeve]

This is one of those things that I’m never quite happy with – a filter or effect in an NLE never really looks quite right. Not the way genuinely bad TV does. In in these situations that I want to sub my footage onto VHS, abuse it and then recapture it, but that’s not usually a practical option.

That said, the FCP ‘Bad TV’ effect is quite nice I reckon.

My other pet peeve in these sorts of things is viewfinders – they never look anything like an actual viewfinder.

[Ryan Mast]

I’m with Dylan — use some real, destroyed VHS footage. I have a stockpile of VHS, film, and RF reception glitches to use with my footage. The easiest application is to put the glitchy clip atop your existing footage and change the composite mode to Add, Overlay, or Hard Light, and color correct to taste.

It won’t give you tracking distortion, but it’s a fast, organic way to rough up your footage.