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I rendered out old VHS footage (1991) and notice a slight bounce to the footage.
Hello!
I have several tapes I captured years ago that were from around the same time period, 1991. 2 of them, the footage looks fine. The 3rd tape, the footage seems to have a slight bounce. I don’t even know if I am describing it right. It is very noticeable when the time/date is on the screen. Almost like an up and down movement, but slight, nothing too crazy. I was wondering if any of you had suggestions on how to correct this. I believe the tape itself caused this perhaps.
Would something like warp stabilizer correct this? I am using Adobe Premiere 2020 on Windows 11.
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3 Replies
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That is a common problem on analog vcrs like VHS, Betamax (not Betacam).
On some machines you could adjust tracking to stablize it or else use a Time Base Corrector.
However Warp Stablizer should help. You can do it in Premiere but After Effects has more controls.
Try and pick your region of interest as the time/date stamp. If that looks stable viewers will deal with it better than if you stabilize overall footage and the time/date jumps around.
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I hope this image explains my issue better. On the left hand side is a still from when the footage looks normal, on the right, where it jumps. I bumped the line right under the time/date on the left side, and on the right you can see it goes up a bit!
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Hi, yes time base corrector or was this the same machine as called proc amp? Maybe try another VHS machine since they are “deprecated.”
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