How do I make my clip look like it has worse quality?

[Graham Bernard]

I just re-read your post!

There’s many ways to do this:

1/- Saturation Boost

2/- Frame Jitter and hair

Much more….

Video Content Creator and Potter
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[Graham Bernard]

Sony has a great SONY FX to do this.

Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
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[Angelo Mike]

I realize your footage has probably already been shot, but I’ve seen lots of old video cameras at thrift stores like Goodwill. If I really wanted footage like that, I’d get one of those cameras (and the appropriate deck to convert the footage to digital).

[Scott Simpson]

Consider what people would’ve been shooting with in 2000. VHS? Something better like DV?

First, you’re going to crop everything to 4:3 aspect ratio. Widescreen doesn’t look 2000.

People didn’t shoot on film in 2000, so forget about flicker, sprocket hole jitter and hair in the gate. Wouldn’t make sense.

You could sprinkle in some noise, especially if it’s a dark scene.

Vegas has a Sony TV Simulator effect. Try just a little of that to add scanlines for that shot-off-a-TV-screen look.

Think about the things people try to FIX when they’re restoring older footage in the HD age, and work backwards. A tiny bit of blurriness? Less contrast? A bit of color bleed?

—
Radio guy in a TV world. Bigasssuperstar.com

[Alvin Down]

Alright so I made the ratio to 4:3, added TV Simulator effect, added a bit more contrast, some noise, and lowered the framerate.
I tried experimenting with Quick Blur and Pixelate, but I don’t know which one is better.
Here are the results https://youtu.be/SBTDNbb8-Wk. That video is the comparison I did with pixelate and blurring. I’m looking for a surveillance camera type, but I also noticed in real life ones, most have bad quality, like the cameras used in the 2000’s, so I was looking for effects that could do something like that.

Are there any other effects or adjustments I could make?

and also, what’s the difference between AddNoise and FilmGrain?

thanks

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[Stephen Crye]

Ok, I’ll weigh in on this.

Play the footage back on a crappy TV or monitor with the color way off, then re-shoot it. Voila!

But the easy way to do it, as has been mentioned, is with one of the effects in Vegas designed for this.

Steve

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[Alvin Down]

Yeah, I can’t find the Grazie effect as of what someone said before.

[Stephen Crye]

Use the Sony Film Effects plug-in. You can choose from various modes, such as “Circa 1980.”

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T7500, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 2000, Vegas 12, 11, 10, 9 DVDA 6.0 & 5.2(build 135) Sony HDR-CX550V, Panasonic GH3 with LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm / F2.8 ASPH, LUMIX G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8

[Graham Bernard]

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[Alvin Down] ” most have bad quality, like the cameras used in the 2000’s,”
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Alvin, there were some amazing cameras in the year 2000! – OK, what we all need to hear/see from YOU is an example of this. You’re suggesting you want a surveillance-like “look”? Yes? That’s not the same as a camera circa 2000.

OK, how many Colour Surveillance systems were out there in the year 2000? You might want to consider removing the colour or even desat or giving this whole thing a nasty “Cast”? I also remember that much of this was also a tad outta focus, so maybe some Gaussian Blur? Try high and low contrast? Also, as you are suggesting, that this is to be seen on a CRT/TV then you need to think about that this footage IS being seen from a VHS tape with maybe bad sync and edge rip ( oh yes . . .I remember…)

There is a lot of possibilities, but it does have to crucially start with knowledge of WHAT is to be seen, VHS tape, and in the context of WHEN it was seen and on WHAT that footage is being viewed.

Cheers

Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
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[Stuart Smith]

Buy an old camera!!!! Simples