Fixing captured VHS content with Motion 5

[Robin S. kurz]

Some people pay BIG $$$ to get that look!! ????

The only “fix” that I can think of would entail an inordinate about of work using masks, jogging frames in time etc. etc. Certainly nothing one can just jot down a quick tutorial for here. Especially without having actually seen the footage beyond that frame.

But then there may well be some sort of “VHS Correction” filter out there that I’ve never heard of (or needed), or Motion (less likely) or some other NLE. Have you googled?

– RK

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[Will Jones]

The last time I had this issue I paid a compositor big money to fix with After Effects, the problems were much worse than that of the video that the frame grab is from, the issues I’m currently dealing with are a lot lighter, I figured there would an inordinate amount of work with masks, going frame by frame but I was holding on to a bit of hope that there might be another option. I have googled around for a plugin that might assist me but no hits so far.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Will Jones] “The last time I had this issue I paid a compositor big money to fix with After Effects”

In which case it would of course be interesting to know exactly what it is he did. Since there is VERY little that I’d say is only possible in AE, in a case like this, that isn’t in Motion and most of it is due to a markedly more advanced plugin ecosystem as opposed to just the standard toolset.

[Will Jones] “the issues I’m currently dealing with are a lot lighter, I figured there would an inordinate amount of work with masks, going frame by frame”

Again, one would have to actually see the footage to better assess how inordinate the task could actually be. But no, I suspect that there is only a very low likelihood that it could be “easy” in any sense of the word.

– RK

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[Mark Suszko]

I can think of one way to try and fix that kind of damage. It would involve exporting the video as a “frame movie” of single frames, taking the frame movie into Photoshop, and using the healing brush on each frame individually. Not “roto” in the conventional sense, more like “painting”. A highly time-intensive process, with no guarantees of perfect results. There would probably still be artifacts, but instead of dropouts they’d be areas of slight blurriness. But that healing brush *is* pretty amazing. Adobe’s new “sensei” technology, recently demonstrated as a “coming” feature in AfterEffects, would do a better job. It is used for rig removal and the like, relying on finding clean frames of the same scene and interpolating between the unwanted regions and the “plate” Sort of an A.I. based rotoscoping app.