VHS
Drag and drop VHS tape look, for After Effects, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.
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See VHS in action
A full walkthrough of VHS on real footage, in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve.
What VHS does
VHS recreates the look of analog videotape, the soft, slightly unstable image you remember from old camcorders and rental tapes. It runs entirely on the GPU as a real After Effects, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve effect, so you get a live, render-accurate preview while you work, with none of the layer stacking or plugin chains the look usually takes.
Drop it on any clip and dial in as much or as little tape character as you want, from a subtle vintage softening to a full, chewed-up tape with tracking errors and dropouts. Every control is animatable, so you can ramp the degradation across a shot or trigger glitches right on the beat.
How to use VHS
Download Filmit Studio
Grab the free desktop app for Mac or Windows. It manages your whole Filmit library.
Install VHS
Open the Filmit FX library inside Studio and install VHS in one click.
Drop it on your clip
VHS appears in your Effects panel in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve. Drag it onto any clip.
Dial it in
Every control is live and keyframable, so tweak the look and animate it across your shot.
Dial in the exact look
Tracking
Roll and jitter the image like a tape losing sync, from a gentle wobble to a full vertical roll.
Head-switch tear
Add the torn, noisy band along the bottom of the frame where the tape head switches.
Chroma bleed
Smear the color sideways for that bled, oversaturated analog look.
Tape noise & dropout
Layer in tape grain and random dropout streaks for authentic wear.
Warble
Warp the picture with slow horizontal wave distortion.
Soft focus
Soften the detail like a tired tape head, from a light haze to a heavy blur.
Color fade
Wash out and shift the color the way aging tape does.
Edge ring
Add the hard sharpening halo old VHS hardware baked into the signal.
REC / timecode overlays
Stamp on camcorder-style REC, timecode, date, and PLAY graphics, each one toggle-able.
VHS questions
Yes. VHS is one of the native GPU effects in the Filmit FX library, all included with your Filmit Studio subscription at $20/month, along with every plugin, effect, transition, and course. There is no per-effect cost.
Yes. Filmit FX install as native effects, so VHS shows up in your Effects panel in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve. Drop it straight onto a clip.
Yes. VHS runs on the GPU, so you get a live, render-accurate preview and fast renders, with no pre-comps or plugin chains.
Yes. Every control is keyframable, so you can ramp the look across a shot or trigger it on a beat.
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