How the VHS look actually happens
Tape doesn't apply a single filter — it layers the same defects a real cassette picks up between the camera and the screen, each one tunable on its own.
01
Color bleed
Red and blue channels drift apart at the edges, the way composite video smears color when it's pushed through a long cable run.
02
Scan lines
Thin horizontal bands recreate the interlaced fields a CRT drew sixty times a second.
03
Tracking noise
Random horizontal bands jitter and shift, mimicking a head misaligned with the tape.
04
Tape grain
A fine, shifting noise texture stands in for magnetic dropout — the static that lived in every blank spot on a cassette.
05
Bloom
Bright areas glow and spill into their surroundings, the way analog signal overloads on a bright highlight.
06
Tape stocks
Four starting presets tuned to different eras and moods — from a barely-there sunset warmth to full static-drenched decay.